Staff

Jodi Asbell-Clarke
Tim Barclay
Daniel Barstow
LuAnn Dahlman
Susan Doubler
Teon Edwards
Sara Lacy
Jamie Larsen
Tamara Shapiro Ledley
Jeff Lockwood
Harold McWilliams
Lee Pulis
Chris Randall
Katherine Paget
Paul Wagoner
Harvey Z. Yazijian

Jodi Asbell-Clarke has done research and development in the areas of student-inquiry and technology-based curricula, online learning, authentic assessment, student-scientist partnerships and gender bias in technology education. Her academic background includes a M.A. in Math and a M.S. in Physics and Astrophysics. Her previous professional experience includes work as an IBM systems analyst on the Onboard Space Shuttle Software and classroom teaching at University High School in Illinois.

Tim Barclay was a high school math and science teacher for 16 years, head of a K-8 school for 9 years, and has been at TERC for 23 years working on math and science curriculum and teacher enhancement projects. For the last 12 years he has been part of the Hands-On Universe (HOU) astronomy project developing curriculum modules, running teacher workshops, and acting as a member of the executive board.

Daniel Barstow is Director of TERC's Center for Earth and Space Science Education (CESSE), a research and development center for pre-college Earth and space science education. CESSE projects include EarthKAM, Exploring Mars, Astrobiology Education, GLOBE and Visualizing Earth. Prior to his work at TERC, he was a teacher and administrator in the Hartford school system for 14 years, assistant director of the Talcott Mountain Science Center and President of Metacomet Software. His primary areas of expertise include the use of images and visualizations in education, inquiry-based learning, curriculum design and teacher professional development.

LuAnn Dahlman is Project Director for the Earth Exploration Toolbook, a collections project for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). She also works as part of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Data Service group, promoting collaborations between data providers, software tool designers, and curriculum developers. She served as Curriculum Director for TERC's Exploring Earth project, a collaboration with McDougal Littell to design and produce an interactive Web site to accompany their widely used Earth Science textbook. Before working at TERC, LuAnn taught Earth science at the high school level, and developed materials and taught professional development workshops on using image analysis as a tool for learning.

Susan Doubler, a senior staff member at TERC, is Co-Director of the Visualizing Earth Project and Senior Program Developer of the Global Learning Communities Project. She directed the Student and Scientist Partnership Project, TERC's work with the Massachusetts State Systemic Initiative, and several professional development efforts including Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project (a subcontract with Northwestern's CoVis project) and Hands-on Elementary Science. Dr. Doubler has designed technology-enhanced curricula and had led teacher enhancement efforts to implement project-based, technology-enhanced learning. She is also an Associate Professor at Lesley College. Before coming to TERC, she was an instructional specialist and teacher in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Teon Edwards is a Curriculum Developer and Project Director with a background in astrophysics, mathematics, and the use of technology and multimedia in education. She has worked on a variety of projects, including ARIES (at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Global Lab, Astrobiology, Cyber Center: Volcanoes, and ISS EarthKAM.

Sara Lacy is a scientist and curriculum developer at TERC. She is currently developing an Earth science and an engineering course for the Lesley/TERC online Masters in Science Education program. Dr. Lacy holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University. Prior to coming to TERC she was on the faculty at Tufts University and at Rutgers University where she taught Civil Engineering and did research on the behavior of soil during earthquakes.

Jamie Larsen has taught biology with forays into physical science and computers over the course of his ten years as a teacher. He has taught grades 6-12 as well as at the college level. He has written curriculum for the PBS series Nova and Scientific American Frontiers as well as for the Wright Science Initiative at Governor Dummer Academy. His love of sports, nature and computers has resulted in his development of activities for integrating sports research into the science classroom—Slam Dunk Science—as well as activities for exploring and documenting the ethnobiological resources outside the classroom—Nature’s Apprentice Project. Jamie is a Senior Curriculum Developer at TERC for the Astrobiology curriculum project.

Dr. Tamara Shapiro Ledley, a senior scientist at TERC, received her PhD from MIT in 1983. She has conducted a research program in Earth system science with an emphasis on the polar regions at Rice University for about 15 years and has authored over 30 scientific papers. She has also been involved in Earth system science education activities including the development of a museum exhibit to bring near real time images of the Earth to the public, and the directing of teacher training programs in the Earth sciences. Most recently Dr. Ledley received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work with 14 high school students to investigate the influence of El Nino/Southern Oscillation phenomenon on the polar oceans. She is also co-directing the development of Earth system science learning activities for the NSF sponsored GLOBE program, and contributing to the development of a series of museum exhibits for the NASA sponsored Museums Teaching Planet Earth project.

Jeff Lockwood taught high school physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, earth science, and astronomical research during his 28 year teaching career at Sahuaro HS in Tucson, Arizona. He also taught college astronomy for 17 years and has done educational consulting and curriculum development for Project STAR and AAVSO in Cambridge, NOAO, ASP, and others since 1987. He served two years as Title II professional development director for high school science in Tucson before coming to TERC as the project director for the Astrobiology Curriculum program in 1999. Jeff is currently co-PI of the NSF funded Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education program that runs through the summer of 2005 in Tucson and works on the Earth Science by Design project at TERC.

Harold McWilliams is principal investigator and project director for Earth Science by Design, a professional development program for middle school teachers. He is also principal investigator for GLOBE Learning Links as part of the GLOBE Program. In the past he directed TERC's Visual Earth project, developing a series of multimedia, GIS-based CD-ROM products for middle and high school science and Mapping Our City, a project which studied the use of Geographic Information Systems in middle schools. He is interested in the development of effective technology tools for students and teachers, particularly in the areas of earth science and environmental science.

Lee Pulis is a Senior Scientist and developer of high school science and technology education design challenge curricula for TERC's NSF IMD grant, Technology for Science/Science for Technology. He is Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director (70%) for an NSF Advanced Technological Education collaborative project with Massachusetts community colleges, "Networking Communities - a School-to-Career Pathway." He has assisted in developing NASA Student Involvement Program challenge competitions. Lee has previous experience as a corporate environmental division manager, self-employed CEO, and eleven years as instructor and administrator of community college advanced technology programs. Lee's MS degree is in limnology (freshwater ecology) from Cornell University; his BA is in Biology from Dartmouth. He has taught biology and earth science, math, communications and human relations, served on a statewide applied physics curriculum committee, and supervised advanced technology curriculum development for a U.S. Dept. of Education Cooperative Demonstration grant.

Chris Randall, Senior Curriculum Developer, taught 6-8 grade science for nine years. After receiving a fellowship at Tufts University Wright Center for Science Education, he became involved in systemic change efforts and in writing science curricula. His publications include four well-received modules about Mars (NASA) and Northeastern University's Physical Science Sourcebook. He was the author of the Seasons and the El Nino investigations in the 1997-98 GLOBE Teacher's Guide.

Dr. Katherine Paget, of TERC, is a developmental psychologist who has studied learning and teaching for the last twenty years. She has conducted research and evaluation for TERC NSF funded projects including: NGS KidsNetwork Elementary and Middle Grades, New Directions for Physics Playgrounds, EarthKAM, and Teacher Enhancement through Pedegogy and Ecology. She was the lead writer on the Massachusetts Framework for Science and Technology "Owning the Questions" and currently works on research for Visualizing Earth, an NSF funded project exploring cognitive issues associated with using geographic visualizations.

Paul Wagoner is an engineer and curriculum developer who helped to develop materials for each of the NASA-funded Earth-to-Orbit Engineering Design Challenges. He coordinates the Space Flight Opportunities Competition of the NASA Student Involvement Program and provides technical assistance to high school student teams as they prepare their experiments for flight on board a NASA rocket or the Space Shuttle. In ten years at TERC he has worked on numerous projects related to curriculum development and research and has developed instrumentation for student use, including the TERC Total Column Ozonometer. He has taught math and science at the elementary and high school levels. As an undergraduate he was awarded the Luis de Florez Prize for design ingenuity by the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Harvey Z. Yazijian has served as Developmental Editor for a number of key TERC projects over the past eight years, including the Global Lab project and GLOBE. Harvey also is a marketing communications writer and internationally-published author of several books.