Current Research Projects
OpenSciEd Equitable Instruction Initiative
The goal of the OpenSciEd Equitable Instruction Initiative at Boston College is to support the implementation of OpenSciEd across Massachusetts. This includes providing comprehensive professional learning for cohorts of schools implementing OpenSciEd as well as logistical and leadership support for implementation. As a postdoctoral research fellow with the initiative, I support collection and analysis of data around how teachers are learning from these supports and their impact on classroom teaching and learning.
Supporting Teacher Customizations of Curricular Materials
I am the postdoctoral fellow organizing data collection and analysis for the NSF-funded Customize project. The project aims to understand how teachers customize curricular materials to support equitable sensemaking in their classrooms.The project seeks to understand how teachers using OpenSciEd customize the materials and then create tools and supports for others who might be seeking to do similar customizations in service of supporting all students in engaging in the process of figuring out the natural world.
Past Research Projects
OpenSciEd Professional Learning
I am part of the professional learning team for the OpenSciEd middle school developers consortium. We design professional learning to support implementation of the OpenSciEd curriculum materials. As part of this work, we are closely following a small group of teachers to learn about their experiences learning about and implementing this new curriculum.
ChemEx2 Professional Learning
I led a group of three doctoral students and four teachers in designing and researching ChemEx², a professional development program for high school chemistry teachers. We investigated how chemistry teachers made sense of phenomenon-based investigations and worked to implement them in the classroom.
Instructional Leadership for Science Practices
The ILSP project focused on creating and distributing resources to support teachers and instructional leaders in implementing practice-based science instruction as well as professional development for K-8 principals in using these resources. I assisted in the creation and editing of the ILSP tools and analyzed the impacts of the professional development on principals’ understanding of the science practices in order to learn how to support principals in supporting strong science instruction in schools.
