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DCL: NSF INCLUDES: Supporting a Collective Impact Approach from the Bottom Up

January 1, 2016 - March 31, 2018 | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks, Informal/Formal Connections
The NSF INCLUDES program supports models, networks, partnerships and research to ensure the broadening participation in STEM of women, members of racial and ethnic groups that have been historically underrepresented, persons of low socio-economic status, and people with disabilities. The Algebra Project, in partnership with the Young People's Project, will convene a conference on inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) higher education in support of the National Science Foundation's Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) initiative. The conference will examine a critical question: What roles and structures are needed for a mini-backbone organization in order to scale a "bottom up" model of social change into an organized, full scale collective impact model? Additionally, the conference will develop participants' capacity to link action on the various design challenges, and backbone structures, to future actions that meet the needs of a potential Alliance on this Broadening Participation Challenge and others facing similar challenges. Five pre-conference design teams will focus on key components to improve education of students from underrepresented and disadvantaged populations over a four-month period prior to the convening of the stakeholders in St. Louis, Missouri in 2017.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: NSF INCLUDES
Award Number: 1650533
Funding Amount: $253,734.00

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Robert Moses
    Principal Investigator
    Algebra Project Inc
  • Beverly Walker
    Co-Principal Investigator
  • Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
    Audience: Undergraduate/Graduate Students | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals | Evaluators | Learning Researchers
    Environment Type: Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Conferences | Higher Education Programs
    Access and Inclusion: Ethnic/Racial | Women and Girls | People with Disabilities | Low Socioeconomic Status

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