Conference: The State of Equitable STEM Pedagogy at California Community Colleges

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），本次会议提案旨在举办为期一天的圣莫尼卡学院区域会议，题为“加州社区学院公平STEM教学法的状态”，与会者将分享加州社区学院和HSI STEM课程中公平教学实践的模式。虽然许多教育公平研究都集中在四年制大学的学生的经验，社区大学学生的经验需要更多的研究。这是一个相关的研究领域，因为按比例更多的西班牙裔/拉丁裔和黑人/非洲裔美国人学生开始他们的学术生涯在社区学院的高等教育;在加州社区学院的人口统计数据中，46.04%的学生是西班牙裔/拉丁裔学生，而他们的成功率和完成率低于同龄人，特别是在STEM教育中。本次会议将有助于围绕社区学院和HSIs的有效公平实践提供更丰富的知识，并将为加州社区学院的STEM教师之间建立更大的合作平台。本次会议将重点介绍圣莫尼卡学院已经开展的各种举措的主要研究成果，包括NSF资助的资助在STEM中培养公平的学生成功文化，加州董事会的数学倡议，SMC Equitizing Gateway Courses倡议以及围绕学生体验重新设计学生服务。它还将展示来自其他加州社区学院的以STEM公平为重点的举措，并将使STEM公平从业者能够获得有关如何最好地为STEM中的黑人和拉丁裔学生提供服务的知识和见解，以帮助缩小种族公平差距。本次会议将有助于在加州社区学院的STEM教师中建立一个更广泛的公平从业者网络。通过在线演示和研讨会的结合，参与者将接触到高影响力的公平教学实践，旨在缩小黑人和拉丁裔学生在STEM课程中经常遇到的学术成就差距，包括交叉身份如何经常放大现有的公平差距。会议的目标将是强调社区大学生的独特目标，优势，挑战和经验如何需要有意识的方法来围绕缩小教育公平差距设计的教学实践。本次会议将包括同步演示和研讨会，沿着一位主旨发言人，这将使演讲者和与会者能够分享他们的知识和经验，并在STEM中进行公平的教学实践。研讨会将围绕以下主题组织：归属感，侵入性咨询，早期预警系统，基于资产的方法和学生服务。 会议专用的Canvas课程将用于共享资源并促进与会者之间的讨论。会议介绍和材料将在一个可供公众查阅的档案中广泛提供。一位外部评估员将调查与会者，以衡量他们对会议的理解，以及他们促进、发展和改进自己的教学实践的可能性，并以公平为重点。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference proposal aims to host a one-day regional conference by Santa Monica College titled “The State of Equitable STEM Pedagogy at California Community Colleges” where participants will share models of equitable teaching practices within STEM courses at California community colleges and HSIs. While much educational equity research has focused on the experiences of students at four-year institutions, additional research is needed on the experiences of community college students. This is a relevant area for research given that proportionally more Hispanic/LatinX and Black/African American students begin their academic careers in higher education at community colleges; and within the California community college demographics 46.04% of the student population are Hispanic/Latinx students while their success and completion rates are lower than peers, specifically in STEM education. This conference will contribute to a richer body of knowledge around effective equity practices at community colleges and HSIs and will establish a platform for greater collaboration among STEM faculty at California community colleges. This conference will highlight key research findings from various initiatives already underway at Santa Monica College, including the NSF-funded grant Fostering an Equity Minded Student Success Culture in STEM, the California Board of Trustee’s math initiative, the SMC Equitizing Gateway Courses initiative, and the redesign of Student Services around the student experience. It will also showcase STEM equity-focused initiatives from other California community colleges and will allow STEM equity practitioners to gain knowledge and insight on how to best serve our Black and Latinx students in STEM to help close racial equity gaps. This conference will help build a broader network of equity practitioners among STEM faculty at California Community Colleges.Through a combination of online presentations and workshops, participants will be exposed to high-impact equitable teaching practices designed to close academic achievement gaps often experienced by Black and Latinx students in STEM courses, including how intersectional identities often amplify existing equity gaps. The goal of the conference will be to highlight how the unique goals, strengths, challenges, and experiences of community college students require intentional approaches to pedagogical practices designed around closing educational equity gaps. This conference will consist of concurrent presentations and workshops, along with a keynote speaker that will allow presenters and participants to share their knowledge and experiences with equitable pedagogical practices in STEM. Workshops will be organized around the following themes: sense of belonging, intrusive advising, early alert systems, asset-based approaches, and student services. A conference-specific Canvas course will be used to share resources and foster discussion among participants. Conference presentations and materials will be made widely available in a publicly accessible archive. An external evaluator will survey conference participants to measure their understanding of the conference sessions, as well as their likelihood to promote, develop and improve their own teaching practices with an equity-minded 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.