Collaborative Research: Districts Helping Districts: Scaling Inclusive CT Pathways

虽然美国所有50个州都采用了计算机科学教育政策和标准，但公平仍然是一个长期存在的共同挑战，最近基于州的研究报告称，许多高中CS课程的招生人数与20年前相比没有增加。Digital Promise Global和布罗沃德县学校董事会之间的这一合作伙伴关系将通过创建一个致力于为学生扩展CS教育的学区专业学习社区来解决持续存在的公平困境。这种方法认识到学区在设计和实施包容性计算路径方面的关键作用，这些路径将核心计算能力与学区采用国家标准、可用资源和教师专业发展机会连贯地联系起来。该伙伴关系建立在先前工作的基础上，并将与全国八个学区合作，服务于不同的地理位置、学区规模和学生人口。Digital Promise Global和布罗沃德县学校委员会之间的这一研究-从业者伙伴关系(RPP)建立在先前设计包容性K-12计算路径的工作基础上。这种扩大规模的关键是学区在解决持续的公平困境和学生在K-12计算方面的成绩差距方面发挥的关键作用。该项目团队包括八个不同的学区，他们共同探索可持续扩展包容性CT路径模式的实践，这些模式是合作学区在过去三年中单独设计和实施的。RPP将利用根据先前工作设计的CT Path工具包，并为地区行政人员和教师实施教师主导的大规模专业学习模式。目标是让地区领导和教师发展技能和支持系统，以便有效地在每个年级(K-12)实施累积的、一致的和基于能力的学习机会。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。

While all 50 U.S. states have adopted computer science education policies and standards, equity remains a persistently common challenge, with recent state-based studies reporting that many high school CS courses have enrollments no more diverse than they were 20 years ago. This partnership between Digital Promise Global and the Broward County School Board will address ongoing equity dilemmas by creating a professional learning community of school districts working to expand CS education for their students. This approach recognizes the crucial role of districts in designing and implementing inclusive computing pathways that coherently connect core computing competencies to the district’s adoption of state standards, available resources, and teacher professional development opportunities. The partnership builds on prior work and will engage eight school districts across the country that serve a variety of geographies, district sizes and student populations.This research-practitioner partnership (RPP) between Digital Promise Global and the Broward County School Board builds upon prior work that designed inclusive K-12 computing pathways. Key to this scale-up is the crucial role of school districts in addressing ongoing equity dilemmas and student achievement gaps in K-12 computing. The project team includes eight diverse school districts, who collectively explore practices for sustainably scaling the inclusive CT pathways model that partnering districts have individually designed and implemented over the past three years. The RPP will leverage the CT Pathways Toolkit designed from prior work and implement a teacher-led model of professional learning at scale for district administrators and instructors. The goal is for district leaders and teachers to develop skills and support systems to effectively implement cumulative, consistent, and competency-based learning opportunities in each grade, K-12.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.