Our 50th > Stories > Barbara Grosz   Barbara Grosz Biology Teacher Pine Crest School Fort Lauderdale, Florida In a letter to Rodger Bybee, Ms. Grosz wrote, BSCS is an organization that I have revered and appreciated throughout my entire career. I don't expect you to remember that I have been a classroom biology teacher for 42 uninterrupted years. Still working full time, I wake up every morning looking forward to being in the classroom with my students. I learned about the BSCS in 1963 from my Adelphi College (now University) botany professor, Dr. Victor Larsen. He showed our class the revolutionary BSCS Yellow Version. I'm sure I have written before that I grew up, as a teacher, with BSCS as my guide to how to think about science. I've had a most fulfilling career and feel grateful to BSCS for helping me to develop both my biologic and my educational views. During my years in the classroom, I've had the chance to engage thousands of students in the wonders of biology and science as a process. A former student of mine has been a biology teacher colleague at Pine Crest School for ten years. I feel sort of like a parent whose daughter has decided to come into the family business, encouraged that I have a legacy, and that thousands more students will be exposed to what BSCS has taught me. Even more rewarding, one of my sons, Evan Grosz, has also come into the family business. And he is a former student as well! Although Evan is in the literature department of the family business, he too is passing on the BSCS lessons to his students, with his fine appreciation for science as a way of learning and seeing the world. This letter to BSCS is in support of all you do to provide professional development, high quality sources for, and deep commitment to, evolution education, and excellent text materials for the core biology courses. Many web based materials claim to be inquiry based, but few have the excellence and the true spirit of inquiry that BSCS is so superior at producing. By the way, your articles on biology as a capstone science provided invaluable support for me as I convinced my administration and led my depart- ment through a change to the physics-chemistry- biology sequence. We are in the second year of the transition, too soon to be measuring changes in outcomes, but not too soon to see that it was worth the difficult year with 14 sections of chemistry and three of biology. Continue your good works. My fond regards to those I have had the privilege to share projects with at BSCS. Click here to share your story!

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