IDeAS Lab:
Interaction, Design, & Agency in Science
Interaction, Design, & Agency in Science
My scholarship lies in two areas of science education. The first is practical: co-developing and co-running programs to increase support for STEM teachers, with a focus on teacher agency. The second is aspirational: characterizing what engagement in meaningful scientific activity can look like, and the classroom structures that support that engagement. Underlying this work is the idea that science is a deeply creative pursuit in which we develop models to explain and engage with our world. At its best, science can be a profoundly liberatory activity.
Outside of those research areas, I love working with high school students, supporting meaningful faculty development, availing myself of the Catherine Project offerings, teaching in the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, and (many years ago) the Governor's School of NC. I also recently participated in (and was transformed by!) a Matthew Strother Center program.
I'm the product of public schools, and proud to work in a publicly funded university, doing publicly funded science, for the public good.
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To write well, you have to have something to say and someone to say it to.
We need sugar and oxygen for energy, so why do we attribute the energy to sugar only?