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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 211-218

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... Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning environments can be designed to cultivate young people's creativity and agency as learners and designers. Brennan's research and teaching activities focus ­ on constructionist approaches to designing learning environments -- ­ encouraging learning through designing, personalizing, connecting, and reflecting to maximize learner agency.
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From page 212...
... STEPHANIE CHANG currently works as the director of Impact at Maker Ed, having spent 5 years previously leading and designing Maker Ed's program offerings for educators and institutions around the country. Her current maker-centered work focuses on research and evaluation efforts related to educator practices and learning outcomes of youth, while also encompassing organizational development, sustainability, and storytelling.
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From page 213...
... She also directs the development, design, and execution of a variety of studies, ­ including the external evaluation of NYC's Computer Science for All initiative and the National Science Foundation-funded Maker Partnership, a project to develop teacher training and curricular supports to integrate computer science into science instruction. Fancsali has extensive research and evaluation experience with a focus on school- and community-based ­ educational programs, teacher professional development and capacity building, school reform initiatives, STEM education, aftershool programs, and socio-­motional learning.
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From page 214...
... For the past several years, she has studied the institutional and psychological reasons preventing many underrepresented young people from entering the computer science pipeline in high school. As a former urban high school mathematics and computer science teacher, Goode's research considers the relationship between teacher development and opportunities to learn for students.
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From page 215...
... Her research on youth digital m media engagement in the United States appears in several co-authored books. She is the recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from the American Educational Research Association.
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From page 216...
... Lee is past recipient of a National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation Post-doctoral fellow­hip, NSF's CAREER award, and the Jan Hawkins s Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Asso­ iation. c He has published two academic volumes, Learning Technologies and the Body: Integration and Implementation in Formal and Informal Learning Environments and Reconceptualizing Libraries: Perspectives from the Information and Learning Sciences (with Abigail Phillips)
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... Prior to this, he served as the executive director of Mouse, senior director of Operations & Strategy at Year Up NY, and National Program Director at The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. He has been an evaluator for the Echoing Green fellowship and for Carnegie Corporation grants, a member of the advisory team for the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Science Technology Engineering Arts & Math Center, and a member of the advisory team for the Urban Assembly Maker Academy in New York City, among other advisory roles.
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... , and co-lead for two other funded projects, ConnectedLib and Safe Data Safe Families, all intended to bring together research and practice to enhance the pedagogical skills of in-service and preservice youth librarians. She also currently serves as the fellow and chair of the Task Force for the Libraries Ready to Code initiative, spearheaded by the American Library Association.
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