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Senior Curriculum/Instructional Design Associate
Irene Baker has more than 20 years of experience developing content materials for high school science students and teachers. She has worked on a project- and inquiry-based curriculum that promotes understanding of the big ideas that frame science disciplines, supplemental content overviews for... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Managing Project Director
For the past 15 years, Barbara Brauner Berns has focused on science education with an emphasis on capacity building, curriculum implementation, state policy, and systemic change. She believes that strong partnerships contribute to the improvement of science education. 43 Foundry Avenue |
Project Director
Christine Brown brings more than 14 years of experience in developing high school science materials. Brown oversees a portfolio of work across a wide range of areas including the National Science Foundation-funded Ocean Tracks project, an initiative to develop a website that involves students in... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Associate
Jackie DeLisi brings more than 15 years of experience in the field of education as both a researcher and a practitioner. Her primary research interests include understanding the ways in which school organizational factors influence teacher practice and student learning. Her work also focuses on... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Curriculum/Instructional Design Associate
Bettina Dembek has more than 15 years of experience as a practitioner, curriculum developer, and professional development provider to her domestic and international work. She identifies and applies the latest technologies to education product development and technical assistance to enhance teaching... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Scientist
June Foster has 40 years of experience in precollege science education, with a particular focus on serving students with diverse interests, capabilities, and needs through universal design for learning (UDL). Much of her work involves the design of digital tools to foster learning. 43 Foundry Avenue |
Research Scientist
Charles Hutchison develops new approaches to curriculum development and professional development for science in afterschool and out-of-school time settings. He has considerable experience managing partnerships with informal science institutions and funding organizations. Hutchison is... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Associate
Yueming Jia’s research focuses on classroom teaching and students’ interest in STEM. Her expertise is in qualitative and quantitative methods, including structural equation modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, cluster analysis, growth-curve modeling, semi-structured in-depth... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Associate
Lois Joy brings more than 15 years of experience developing and leading research in educational and employment processes and outcomes with a particular focus on gender and racial differences STEM fields. She leads research on gender differences access, retention, and outcomes of postsecondary STEM... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Distinguished Scholar/Principal Scientist
Kim Kastens brings more than 20 years of experience as a natural scientist and extensive expertise in deepening understanding of the Earth and environment through teaching, curriculum development, professional development, and research on learning. She seeks to advance effective, wide-reaching,... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Scientist
Ruth Krumhansl is an expert in curriculum development, education research, science teaching, and applied science with a focus on using Internet-based tools to bring authentic scientific data into the K–16 classroom. 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Scientist
Abigail Levy has more than 22 years of experience in the fields of public K–12 education and adult workforce development. She has managed teams of researchers in multiyear and multisite research and evaluation studies focusing on professional development, science teaching and learning, the... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Project Director
Catherine McCulloch has extensive expertise in formal and informal education, instructional design, professional development, and capacity-building to enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and teaching. As co-principal investigator of... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Scientist
Jacqueline S. Miller is Principal Investigator on three National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded projects: 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Scientist
Katherine Paget has studied science teaching and learning for more than 20 years and has extensive experience in research and evaluation. Recently, she designed formative and summative assessment items for the free, Web-based Universal... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Research Scientist
Marian Pasquale is an expert in professional development, technical assistance, and curriculum development for the middle grades. She is the Science Specialist for a range of EDC initiatives, including Possible Worlds, EDC’s National R&D Center on Instructional Technology, funded by the... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Training and Technical Assistance Associate
For more than 30 years, Jeff Winokur has conducted science professional development programs and taught pre-service and in-service courses in the teaching of science to children. He most recently worked on EDC's Connecting Science and Literacy Program, which led to the publications... 43 Foundry Avenue |
Senior Project Director
Bryan Wunar has more than 15 years of experience in STEM education and is an expert on creating curriculum and resources, providing professional development, and building partnerships and designing learning experiences that link formal and informal education resources to motivate STEM learners... 43 Foundry Avenue |