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Appendix: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 155-166

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From page 155...
... Her work has shaped thinking about learning and technology with special attention to traditionally underserved audiences. She has led some of the country's most innovative and successful education research, focusing on efforts to identify teaching practices and assessments for 21st century skills; new approaches to teaching computational science in high schools; collaborations with PBS, 155
From page 156...
... Dr. Abriola's numerous professional activities have included service on the US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the NRC Water Science and Technology Board, and the US Department of Energy's Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR)
From page 157...
... She is interested in helping college faculty learn to teach mathematics content courses for elementary and middle school teachers and works with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows toward that end. She developed mathematics content courses for prospective elementary school teachers at the University of Georgia, wrote a book for such courses, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, now in its fourth edition, and is studying future middle school teachers' thinking and learning about proportional relationships.
From page 158...
... . Before joining academia, she was department head of device robotics technology research at AT&T Bell Labs, where, among other things, she invented and named the electrowetting effect, now used in many micro devices and an increasing number of applications.
From page 159...
... He has also worked as a science education specialist for the Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Consortium at Appalachia Educational Laboratory, which supported state education agencies and school districts in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. In 1999 he was selected to serve as project director of the Delta Rural Systemic Initiative, a reform program funded by the National Science Foundation to support poor, rural school districts in the delta areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
From page 160...
... The combination of the school's significant year-to-year student learning growth, very diverse student population, innovative school culture, and 100 percent college acceptance rate for its graduates has made DSST a change agent for local public schools and a destination for school reformers from all over the country. Bill was recognized as the 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year by the New Schools Venture Fund at its national summit in Washington, DC, and in 2008 was named one of 25 champions of public education in Denver over the last 25 years by the Public Education Business Coalition.
From page 161...
... He collaborates with teachers to craft, implement, and assess modeling approaches to mathematics and science education in the elementary and middle school grades. He has also formulated innovative geometry instruction for primary and elementary school students that is guided by longitudinal study of student thinking about space.
From page 162...
... In addition, she is directing SRI's work supporting the National Science Foundation's effort to implement a K–12 STEM education indicator system, as recommended by the 2013 NRC report Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K–12 STEM Education. Her published works include the edited volumes Evaluating Educational Technology, Technology and Education Reform, and Teaching Advanced Skills to At-Risk Students and the jointly authored volumes Using Technology Evaluation to Advance Student Learning, The Connected School, and Comparative Studies of How People Think.
From page 163...
... WNET and Teacher Net filmed her third grade classroom, highlighting engineering design coupled with inquiry-based math and science instruction, and in 2012 her fifth graders were filmed by the Teaching Channel and WNET in "Roller Coaster Physics" (www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teachingstem-strategies)
From page 164...
... . In 2003, he conceptualized Virginia Tech's unique integrative STEM education graduate program, which he cofounded in 2005 and for which he continues to advise PhD candidates.
From page 165...
... In 2010–2011, as a National Science Foundation Einstein Fellow, he worked on STEM education policy issues for the National Science Board. He also served on the steering committee for the NRC Board on Science Education workshop on Climate Change Education in the Formal Setting K–14 and is a current member of the NRC Teacher Advisory Committee.


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