William "Billie" Van Luven is a graduate student working on the "Culturally responsive project-based learning intervention in secondary science in Alabama and North Carolina" project under the supervision of Joe Krajcik and Clausell Mathis (Barbara Schneider, P.I.)
Ozlem is a learner, researcher, and educator who is in constant pursuit of innovative ways to address issues in education with an ultimate goal of fostering inclusive, equitable, and relevant sense making for all students in multicultural settings. Currently, she is a Research Associate at Michigan State University, working on the project Culturally Responsive Science Learning: An Evidence-Based Approach in the Rural South. Ozlem has extensive experience in K-12 science teaching, teacher professional development, and curriculum and assessment design.
Ava is a student research assistant working on the Auto Feedback Effects project with Dr. Kevin Haudek.
Principal Investigators: Joseph Krajcik, Barbara Schneider, Clausell Mathis, Sheneka Williams (Michigan State Unversity)
Project Partners: Alabama A&M University, Winston-Salem University, and the STEPP Center at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research
Funder: The Office of Elementary & Secondary Education
Award Amount: $7,722,448.00
Project Dates:
Angie is a doctoral student in the Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education program at the MSU College of Education. She is currently working with faculty in CREATE for STEM to develop a chemistry curriculum.
Melissa is currently a senior at Michigan State University, majoring in Mathematics, with a minor in Actuarial Science. In her free time, she loves to read, go for walks, take swing dancing lessons, and play with her guinea pig, Bob.
Andrea’s primary research interest is in identifying student cultural resources for understanding physics concepts and supporting them to navigate between traditional physics ways of thinking and their personal/cultural ways of thinking. This work intends to highlight students’ strengths without requiring them to assimilate to the traditional physics way of thinking. A second area of interest is supporting a learning community of instructors to decolonize physics lessons.
Wanjoo holds a Bachelor's degree from Ewha Womans University and a Master's degree from Seoul National University in Korea, both in Science Education. Her research focuses on supporting both inservice and preservice teachers in creating science classrooms that are equitable, just, and responsive to the needs and strengths of all students, with particular attention to students from diverse and historically marginalized cultural, racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds.
Lucky is a graduate student in the Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Training (CITE) program in the MSU College of Education. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Science Education (Physics) at Nnamdi Azikwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Lucky's master's degree is in International Education and Development at the University of Sussex, England. He is a Chevening scholar.
