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Equitable and Transformative Pathways into and through STEM for Youth from Un...

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2018 (see original presentation & discussion)

Grades 6-8

PIs, project researchers, youth participant co-researchers, and practitioner partners discuss their shared efforts to explore, support, and design for pathways in and through STEM learning and practice out-of-school towards STEM-empowered lives. We discuss how the project seeks to broaden participation & access to high quality STEM experiences for youth from low-income communities and communities of color historically underrepresented in STEM. We also share stories of how our researcher/practitioner partnerships are working to research and design for innovative practices transforming informal science learning for all youth.

The major goal of our project is for practitioners and researchers, working with youth through design-based implementation research, survey and critical ethnography, to develop new understandings of how and under what conditions they participate in ISL over time and across settings, and how they may connect these experiences towards pathways into STEM. The project will result in: 1) New understandings of ISL pathways that are equitable and transformative for youth from historically underrepresented backgrounds; 2) A set of high leverage practices and tools that support equitable and transformative informal science learning pathways (and the agency youth need to make their way through them); and 3) Strengthened and increased professional capacity to broaden participation among youth from historically underrepresented backgrounds in STEM through informal science learning.

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Discussion from the 2018 STEM for All Video Showcase (19 posts)
  • Icon for: Laura Rodriguez

    Laura Rodriguez

    Graduate Student
    May 14, 2018 | 11:01 a.m.

    Thank you for posting your program! I have a few questions about the logistics of the program. How you have coordinated between schools and informal science spaces such as the zoos and museums and especially how you are utilizing the resources of community centers? I'm also curious about the age range of the students and how long they are typically a part of the project. What have you found to be the greatest barrier to student participation in the program?

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 15, 2018 | 10:46 a.m.

    Hi Laura: Thank you for your comment. We are following youth through the middle grades (mainly ages 12-15) as they navigate informal STEM in their lives. We are collaborating with community centers, museums, and zoos across our partner sites. While we are interested in how youth build connections between their ISL experiences and school science, this is not a direct focus of our work, at least on this project. We are most interested in how youth access, navigate and connect experiences in and through ISL, what this means for their STEM pathways, and the practices which open up and constrain their pathway authoring. One piece we are particularly interested in is how community centers and designed spaces such as museum build organizational connections (rather than just person connections) towards facilitating pathways for young people -- how such connections are established, maintained and the ways in which they support young people. Angie

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    Christine Boynton

    K-12 Administrator
    May 18, 2018 | 12:37 p.m.

    I really love this idea of how informal spaces generate pathways!  I'm wondering how this connects to school day science?

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    Anushree Bopardikar

    Facilitator
    May 14, 2018 | 03:58 p.m.

    Thank you for sharing your work with us. It was interesting to hear students' perspectives on empowering their lives through participation in STEM learning experiences. I am wondering about the kinds of impact your project has set out to measure and your methods for assessing impact, especially to provide evidence for high leverage practices and tools that are an intended outcome of this project. Also, how do you think the results of your work might inform STEM educational policy?

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 15, 2018 | 10:52 a.m.

    Hi Anushree: Thank you for your comments. Our project, which is grounded in longitudinal ethnography and participatory design based research, is using the lens of "expansive learning" to guide our methods of assessing impact. For example, we think of impact in terms of science capital, science agency and science identities alongside more traditional outcomes such as science learning (knowledge & practice) and participation. We are using both large scale survey of participants across our sites, as well as multi-modal portfolios co-produced by youth + researchers, and practitioners + researchers. One outcome that we hope for is research informed policy ideas related to the high leverage practices that organizations can take up regarding equitable and transformative pathways (e.g., naming specific outcomes, and naming specific practices at the cross-organizational, organizational and program levels). Angie

     
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    Stephen Uzzo

    Facilitator
    Chief Scientist
    May 15, 2018 | 08:08 a.m.

    Thanks for sharing your work through the Showcase video clip. A couple of ideas that did not appear in the video, but wondering the degree to which they might be present in your program: how the DBIR engages the participants as designers and how you will study the longitudinal trajectory of youth participants after the program, to see what practices are most efficacious? 

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 15, 2018 | 11:03 a.m.

    Hi Stephen:  Thank you for your comments! This is a tough question to answer briefly, but I will try. In our Phases 1 and 2 of our project, we are collaboratively engaging with youth and with practitioners to co-produce portfolios of youth's ISL experiences over time (years) and of the potential high leverage practices which may support these experiences. I say co-produced because youth and practitioners are actively involved in assembling these portfolios through our joint experiences together -- identifying moments/experiences/artifacts that matter to them in their work/practice, and they are also involved in reflexive dialogues on the meanings of these portfolios. These dialogues are working us towards initial conjectures that we will test in our DBR work (phase 3 - we are not there yet). So, during Phases 1 and 2, our practice and youth partners are co-authoring with us the starting points of our DBR work. Then during Phase 3, we will work in expansive R+P teams (youth, practitioners, researchers) to co-design how the conjectured HLPs may be integrated in ISL experiences. Let me know if this is clear! Angie

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    Betsy Stefany

    Researcher
    May 20, 2018 | 12:26 p.m.

    Angela,  I enjoy watching the students interact and also appreciate the changes of research “capture” so neat that the kids join in the research. The timeline of their crossing pathways between informal and formal is powerful.    The use of that timeline connected the problems that I think about regarding formal vs informal STEM, also how hard it is to cross over in our own “languages” that tend to both be based our “experiences” but also on our learning cultures where we emerged.  Trying to talk about that bridge is difficult anywhere.  I wondered if students engage across the project  sites to compare their interests?

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 21, 2018 | 11:41 a.m.

    Hi Betsy: Thank you for your comments! We have purposefully involved youth who are involved cross setting as a way to open up the dialogue amongst the youth and practitioners. One interesting outcome thus far has been because of that two of our community partners are not starting a collaborative where the youth involved in both settings will help plan a joint program! Very exciting!

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    Lisa Miller

    Facilitator
    Teacher
    May 15, 2018 | 09:17 p.m.

    Thanks for sharing your work!  I especially enjoyed seeing and hearing the youth partners in the video.  I'm curious how many youth are currently involved with your project and if you've experienced challenges recruiting and keeping them involved.  Also, in your response to Stephen, you mentioned three phases of the project.  Are you hoping to have the same youth partners through all three phases?

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 21, 2018 | 11:43 a.m.

    Hi Lisa:  We have 48+ youth across our four sites, involved intensively on the co-production of their ISL pathway portfolios. These same youth will contribute to the design-based work if they opt to do some. We imagine that some will and some won't (because some may move to new cities, as one youth will be this summer, and some may become involved in other activities as they move from the middle to the high school). It will be interesting as we begin our design work to have  a strong youth voice -- both youth who have helped construct the basis for the design work, as well as new youth who can contribute new ideas to the process. Thank you for your comments! Angie

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    Kris Morrissey

    Higher Ed Faculty
    May 17, 2018 | 01:13 p.m.

    I'm intrigued by your goal of building science capital, science agency and science identity as related to equity. In developing our ISL Professional Learning Framework, we grappled with how broad or concrete to be when we describe the competencies within Equity & Diversity.  I wonder if your experiences and your lens provides any lessons or insight for us as we try to describe the competencies professionals need to provide equitable opportunities to build science capital, agency and identity?  

    Also, being from Michigan, I loved seeing the activities wihin Impression Five!

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 21, 2018 | 11:45 a.m.

    Hi Kris: This a a great question in terms of describing/documenting competencies. One of our goals will be to really make clear concrete high leverage practices, and tools that may be supportive in helping practitioners enact those practices. It will be important as part of that work to develop supportive tools that help practitioners and leaders to "see" how those practices develop -- the leverage points, the incremental steps and so on. This I think may help push us along what it may mean to talk about such competencies for equitable teaching and learning in ISL settings.

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    Maureen Callanan

    Higher Ed Faculty
    May 17, 2018 | 10:43 p.m.

    What a great project!  I think it's especially powerful that you include a critical component, considering the reasons for inequity, and engaging young people in reasoning about not only STEM ideas, but also about institutional barriers that need to be navigated in order to embark on STEM pathways.

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 21, 2018 | 11:47 a.m.

    Hi Maureen:  Thank you so much for your comments. It has been interested to make sense of youth document and describe the institutional barriers, which is not always the same as adults do. I was particularly taken by two of the youths' efforts to include a stop motion animation video in their portfolio as they wanted the teachers/researchers to not only "understand" their pathways and the barriers they face but also to "feel" their pathways. (Hope that made sense!)

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    Lorena Medina Luna

    Informal Educator
    May 18, 2018 | 05:58 p.m.

    It's so great to see that you are working with students ages 12-15! This is a very critical time period for students to continue their interest in the STEM fields! Can you direct me to any publications you might have on your research findings? Thank you, and keep up the great work! 

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 21, 2018 | 11:49 a.m.

    Hi Lorena: I would be happy to send you a few papers that may be of interest. One paper that served as a critical analysis upon which this study is build is this paper I co-authored with Daniel Birmingham: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002... -- I am also happy to send this and a few others papers if you send me your email (acb@msu.edu).

  • Icon for: Merle Froschl

    Merle Froschl

    Director, Educational Equity
    May 21, 2018 | 11:33 a.m.

    Angela, so great to see your work continuing. I love the youth voices in your video!

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    Angela Calabrese Barton

    Lead Presenter
    Professor
    May 21, 2018 | 11:52 a.m.

    Hi Merle: Thank you for your comments! It was important for us to have the youth play a central role in the video as they do in this project. We are working really hard to ensure that we take an expansive r+p approach where youth and families voices are at the table with researchers and practitioners in equitable ways!

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