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Suggested Citation:"About the Author." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25909.
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About the Author

JENNIFER CHILDRESS SELF is a STEM education consultant and advisor focusing on supporting the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and similar Framework-based standards as well as identifying the essential components of high-quality STEM instructional materials. Additionally, she has been involved in many projects internationally, recently working with a partnership between UNESCO and school systems in Turkey to develop and implement new STEM curriculum standards and working in India and Malaysia to help establish professional learning communities for teachers, including those in refugee communities. Previously, she was the Director of Instructional Support for Science at Achieve, where she coordinated the development and implementation of the NGSS. Prior to joining Achieve in 2011, she was the Director of the Center for Building Awareness of Science Education (BASE) at the National Science Resources Center, now the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC). She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Global STEM Alliance and was previously a board member for the New York Academy of Sciences and an Advisor for the development of the Framework for K–12 Computer Science Education. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from the University of Texas-Houston.

Suggested Citation:"About the Author." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25909.
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Suggested Citation:"About the Author." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25909.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is resulting in widespread and ongoing changes to how the K-12 education system functions, including disruptions to science teaching and learning environments. Students and teachers are all figuring out how to do schooling differently, and districts and states are working overtime to reimagine systems and processes. This is difficult and stressful work in the middle of the already stressful and sometimes traumatic backdrop of the global pandemic. In addition, students with disabilities, students of color, immigrants, English learners, and students from under-resourced communities have been disproportionately affected, both by the pandemic itself and by the resulting instructional shifts.

Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis aims to describe what high quality science and engineering education can look like in a time of great uncertainty and to support practitioners as they work toward their goals. This book includes guidance for science and engineering practitioners - with an emphasis on the needs of district science supervisors, curriculum leads, and instructional coaches. Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis will help K-12 science and engineering teachers adapt learning experiences as needed to support students and their families dealing with ongoing changes to instructional and home environments and at the same time provide high quality in those experiences.

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