IDeAS Lab: 

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.