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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 123-130
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She formerly served as a board member of the National Academies Board on Science Education and currently serves as a member of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education's advisory committee. Her book Design, Make, Play -- Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators explores the potential of these strategies for supporting student engagement and deeper learning.
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JESSICA COVINGTON is a senior program assistant with the Board on Science Education (BOSE) and is currently supporting the Committee on Assessing the NASA Science Activation Program and the Developmental Math proceedings.
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There, she was a member of the Senior Leadership Team for the museum and led programs that integrated science with educational programming, such as innovative teacher professional development workshops, field courses, K–12 classes, and exhibit development. She holds a B.A.
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Her work often f ocuses on the costs and cost- effectiveness of programs and policies relating to science teaching, and she has contributed to the knowledge base about teacher turnover and its cost, the professional development of science teachers, and the impact of an inquiry-based approach to science teaching. During her tenure at EDC, she has studied science fair participation and impact, the cost and cost-effectiveness of different models of elementary science instruction, and how teachers adapt to large-scale curriculum reform.
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Within informal education, he has focused on design of innovation networks, working with both regional networks including the Mozilla Hive NYC Learning Network, a collective of 70 informal education organi ations, as well as z national networks, including the Digital Learning Challenge community supported by the Susan Crown Exchange. His K–12 work with CSforALL looks at how school districts develop equitable, alues-driven computer sci v ence initiatives.
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At Pacific Science Center, he served as PI for a number of NSF projects, including the Science Center's innovative Community Leadership project that develops science advocates in communitybased organizations, and the nationally touring exhibit, Aliens: Worlds of Possibilities, which explores the nature of the solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life in the galaxy. He was the founding director of Portal to the Public, a nationwide effort to assist science-based professionals to engage with public audiences.
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In this role, she provides research and planning support for several ongoing projects including the Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education, an expert study to assess the NASA Science Activation Program, and a consensus study on Minority Serving Institutions: America's Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM workforce, in collaboration with the Board on Higher Education and Workforce. She is currently the study director for the Workshop on the Increasing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics, which brought together a variety of stakeholders who have developed and/or implemented new initiatives to improve the mathematics education experience for all students.
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JULIE YU is a senior scientist at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception. She provides science content support throughout the museum and works with teachers to bring inquiry-based science learning to their classrooms as part of the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute, a nationally recognized teacher professional learning center.
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