Assistant Professor of Teacher Education

University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, NY

updated August, 2023

email me: blowell [at] albany [dot] edu

I am a former high school chemistry and environmental science teacher and current assistant professor of teacher education at University at Albany, where I study how teachers learn to teach science as a process for making sense of natural phenomena rather than a set of facts to be memorized and the structures and systems that help teachers to take up curricular and instructional reform in their classrooms. This focus has included projects examining how middle school teachers take up, use, and customize reform-based science curriculum, how high school chemistry teachers makes sense of professional development around the science practices, and how instructional leaders learn about and support teacher learning of the science practices. I hold a PhD in curriculum & instruction with a focus on science education from Boston College, an MA in education with a focus on the teaching of science from Stanford University, and an ScB in biochemistry from Brown University.