Workshop for Writing Grants for Early Career Scholars in STEM and Learning Sciences Focused on Racial Equity

美国和STEM领域持续存在的种族不公正和不平等突出表明，有必要采取创造性的、以研究为基础的方法来解决这些关切。特别是，需要有创造性的方法来研究和解决STEM教育中的种族不公正和不平等问题，在STEM教育中，种族平等和STEM学习都得到了认真和深思熟虑的考虑。这个项目的重点是支持那些在学术和工作中对种族平等有新想法和新方法的新兴学者。这一讲习班在一年的时间里作为一系列会议实施，将支持STEM教育和学习科学领域的早期职业学者准备提交给国家科学基金会的提案。该讲习班旨在服务于那些在获得博士学位后五年内获得博士学位的学者，他们以前从未担任过联邦资助赠款的首席研究员或联合首席研究员。参与者将包括早期职业学者，他们的工作重点是种族平等。这些学者经常表示，他们很少或根本没有接受过撰写拨款提案的培训。该项目将通过为期一年的一系列讲习班为10名参与者提供支持，这些讲习班包括赠款编写过程的不同方面，包括通读邀请书、编写叙事和制定预算。除了这些讲习班会议外，项目方法还考虑了专业网络和指导的重要性，并借鉴了实践共同体理论框架和关于指导做法的现有研究。因此，每个早期职业学者将与该领域的一名资深导师配对，该导师的工作与被辅导者的工作一致。针对早期职业学者的研讨会的结果将包括一个完整或几乎完整的提案，该提案与NSF学习研究部的一个项目保持一致。研讨会将强调制定职业建议书的策略，以及为其他项目准备建议书的考虑因素。更广泛地说，研讨会将创建一个支持和指导早期职业学者提出以种族平等工作为中心的STEM教育项目的模式，并将能够确定成功撰写赠款提案所需的领域。所有工作坊材料将免费提供给公众。探索研究PREK-12计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高Pre-K-12学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发努力的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验证明。该项目还通过推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)、CS for All：研究和RPP以及学生和教师创新技术体验(ITEST)计划提供资金。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Persistent racial injustices and inequities in the United States and in STEM fields underscore the need for creative, research-based approaches to address these concerns. In particular, creative approaches are needed for studying and addressing racial injustices and inequities in STEM education, where racial equity and STEM learning are both given careful and thoughtful consideration. This project focuses on supporting emerging scholars who have new ideas and approaches for approaching racial equity in their scholarship and work. This workshop, implemented as a series of sessions over the course of a year, will support early career scholars in STEM education and the learning sciences in preparing proposals to submit to the National Science Foundation. The workshop is designed to serve scholars who are within five years of obtaining their PhD and who have never before been principal investigator or co-principal investigator of a federally-funded grant. Participants will include early career scholars who focus their work on racial equity. Too often, such scholars have indicated that they have received little to no training on writing grant proposals. Ten participants will be supported by the project through a year-long series of workshops that include different aspects of the grant writing process including reading through a solicitation, writing a narrative, and creating a budget. In addition to these workshop sessions, the project approach also considers the importance of a professional network and of mentoring, informed by a Communities of Practice theoretical framework and existing research on mentoring practices. As such, each early career scholar will be paired with a senior mentor in the field whose work is aligned with the mentee's. The outcomes of the workshop for early career scholars will include a complete or nearly complete proposal that is aligned with one of the programs within the NSF's Division of Research on Learning. The workshop will highlight strategies for developing CAREER proposals along with considerations for preparing proposals for other programs. More generally, the workshop will create a model for supporting and mentoring early career scholars in proposing STEM education projects centered in racial equity work and will be able to identify areas of need for successful grant proposal writing. All workshop materials will be made freely available to the general public. The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. This project is also funded through the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), CS for All: Research and RPPs, and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.