Dr. Nix-Stevenson

I have taught science at the secondary level for twenty years. I see teaching and learning as reciprocal and view classrooms as transformative collaboratories for both the teacher and student to share in the learning process as co-constructors and co-creators. For this reason, I strive to build a strong sense of classroom community, center social justice in my teaching, and hold to an idea expressed by bell hooks, “But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all of its limitations, remains a location of possibility.” Originally, from Albany, New York, I moved to the South to attend Bennett College where I received my B.S. in Biology, NCA&T State University where I received my M.S. Biology Secondary Education, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where I received my Ph.D. in Educational Studies with concentrations in Social & Cultural Foundations of Education and Women & Gender Studies. Inspired by citizen science and passionate about leveraging underappreciated knowledge sources (local and traditional knowledge), I bring a myriad of teaching experiences to The Experiential School of Greensboro. In my spare time, I love listening to and dancing to Afro/Soulful/Deep House music, learning about essential oils, making jewelry and reading.