NSF Workshop Proposal to Develop a Summer Institute for STEM Teachers and Curriculum Development for a Novel 6-12 Grade STEM Program for a School of Environmental & Coastal Stu

路易斯安那州立大学(LSU)将在东巴吞鲁日教区学校系统(EBRPSS)的一所新学校为科学教师提供专业发展。EBRPSS正在开发一所类似路易斯安那州立大学海岸与环境学院(CC&Amp；E)的6-12年级“焦点选择”学校。我们的目标是开发一门大学前课程，与CC&amp；E的跨学科海岸环境科学学士学位课程相衔接，该课程以严格的STEM课程为基础。CC&amp；E与路易斯安那州立大学人文科学与教育学院合作，将帮助开发注重实践的、基于地点的学习的课程，并为EBRPSS教师提供职业发展机会，使他们能够掌握他们将要教授的材料。EBRPSS正在快速发展这所新的环境学校，目标是在2022年秋季开始第一批六年级学生。路易斯安那州立大学的教职员工将举办为期两周的暑期学院研讨会，重点关注课程开发和教师专业发展，以及在8月第一天上课前提供的援助。新学校距离CC&A；E校区2.2英里，附近的一所学校有93%的少数民族学生。这所新的公立学校将教育严重缺乏服务的人群，为学生提供坚实的科学基础，并让他们参与当地的环境和地球科学主题。这个“环境研究和海岸研究学院”的总体目标是培养能够直接进入路易斯安那州立大学，特别是海岸与环境学院的海岸环境科学学士学位或其他专注于环境的路易斯安那州立大学项目的不同类别的学生。这一奖项反映了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。

Louisiana State University's (LSU) will offer professional development to science teachers in a new school in East Baton Rouge Parish School System (EBRPSS). EBRPSS is developing a “focus choice” grades 6-12 school that is analogous to the LSU College of the Coast and Environment (CC&E). The goal is to develop a pre-college curriculum that will articulate with CC&E’s interdisciplinary Coastal Environmental Science B.S. Program, which is heavily underpinned with rigorous STEM courses. CC&E, in partnership with LSU’s College of Human Sciences and Education, will help develop curriculum focused on hands-on, place-based learning and provide EBRPSS teachers with professional development opportunities that enable them to master the material that they will teach.The EBRPSS is fast-tracking this new environmental school and aims to begin with a first cohort of sixth grade students in the fall 2022 semester. LSU faculty will develop a two-week Summer Institute Workshop focusing on curriculum development and teacher professional development, as well as assistance leading up to the first day of classes in August. The new school is located 2.2 miles from the CC&E campus, and a neighboring school is 93% minority students. The new public school will educate a drastically underserved population, offer students a strong science foundation, and engage them in local environmental and geoscience topics. The overall aim of this “School of Environmental Studies and Coastal Studies” is to educate diverse cohorts of students who can matriculate directly to LSU, particularly in the College of the Coast and Environment’s Coastal Environmental Science B.S. degree, or in other LSU programs with an environmental focus.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.