CSforAll: RPP: Programming the Acceleration of Computing and Equity in Massachusetts 2 (PACE2)

麻省理工学院（MIT）提出了推进计算机教育之路（PACE2），这是一个由麻省理工学院教学系统实验室（TSL）、CSforMA和麻省联邦12个不同学区组成的联盟推动的研究-实践伙伴关系（RPP）。PACE2的参与者有一个共同的目标，即扩大马萨诸塞州计算机科学（CS）中服务不足群体的计算机参与：女性、黑人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔、低收入学生、英语学习者和残疾学生。PACE2地区的长期目标是解决CAPE框架的四个方面，以实现公平的计算机科学教育：提高计算机科学教育的能力，扩大计算机科学课程的获取机会，扩大代表性不足群体的参与，并确保计算机科学课程的公平经验。正在进行的实践社区将每个地区的多方利益相关者团队聚集在一起，包括计算机科学教师、部门主管、指导顾问、学校和地区领导人，以确保一致的、全地区的方法来扩大参与和改善计算机科学的经验。加强整个马萨诸塞州的计算机科学教育需要为不同的地区创造一套多样化的途径——不同的课程结构、人口组成和学生人均支出——以帮助所有学生达到并超过马萨诸塞州数字素养和计算机科学标准，并缩小该州存在的与计算机科学教育相关的许多机会差距。PACE成员将参加为期一年的一系列研讨会，包括由nsf先前资助的工作开发的同类最佳项目，如战略CSforALL研究和实施规划工具（SCRIPT）和计算顾问（C4C），以及新的项目。这些新开发的专业学习经验侧重于通过数字临床模拟和开发监测工具和程序来改善公平教学实践，以跟踪整个地区CS教育在机会和成果公平方面的进展。该项目将在第二年不断改进这些最初的学习经验，并规划出扩大拥有PACE研究员的地区数量的途径。该项目将为更大的RPP奠定基础，吸引马萨诸塞州从事计算机科学教育的其他利益相关者。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposes Pathways for Advancing Computing Education (PACE2), a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) facilitated by the MIT Teaching Systems Lab (TSL), CSforMA, and consortium of 12 diverse school districts across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. PACE2 participants share the common goal of broadening participation in computing for underserved groups in computer science (CS) in Massachusetts: females, Black and Hispanic/Latinx, low-income students, English learner students and students with disabilities. The long-term objectives of PACE2 districts are to address the four dimensions of the CAPE framework for equitable CS education: improving Capacity for CS education, expanding Access to CS courses, broadening Participation of underrepresented groups, and ensuring equitable experiences in CS courses. The ongoing community of practice brings together multi-stakeholder teams within each district including CS teachers, department heads, guidance counselors, and school and district leaders to ensure coherent, district-wide approaches to broadening participation and improving experiences in computer science. Strengthening CS education across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will require creating a diverse set of pathways for different districts—with different curriculum structures, demographic compositions, and per pupil expenditures—to make progress towards helping all students meet and exceed the Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science standards and close the many opportunity gaps related to CS education that exist throughout the state. PACE members will participate in a yearlong sequence of workshops, including best-in-class programs developed by prior NSF-funded work like the Strategic CSforALL Research and Implementation Planning Tool (SCRIPT) and Counselors for Computing (C4C), along with new programming. These newly developed professional learning experiences focus on improving equity teaching practices through digital clinical simulations and developing monitoring tools and programs for tracking progress towards equity of opportunity and outcomes in CS education across the district. The project will iteratively improve on these initial learning experiences for a second year and map out pathways for expanding the number of districts with PACE fellows. The project will set the stage for a larger RPP that engages other stakeholders engaged in CS education in Massachusetts.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.