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Jane Larson
Science Educator
jlarson@bscs.org
Jane Larson joined BSCS in 2007 after living and working overseas with the Department of Defense Dependents Schools. Her last position was Instructional Systems Specialist for science in the DoDDS-Pacific/DDESS-Guam area. There she worked with teachers and administrators in DoDDS schools in Korea, Guam, mainland Japan and Okinawa, on professional development, curriculum implementation and technology integration into inquiry-based science classrooms. In June 2006 she and her physics teacher husband retired to Boulder, Colorado.
Jane earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialty in science from the University of Colorado. She has presented her research at NARST annual meetings and has offered workshops at NSTA national conventions. At BSCS she now serves as a Science Educator in the Center for Research and Evaluation. She is currently conducting an evaluation of RxeSEARCH, a high school curriculum about the pharmaceutical R&D process, as well as other BSCS evaluations of teacher leadership programs throughout the US.
For ten years Jane co-taught an NSF-funded outreach summer course, Alpine Ecology and Experiential Learning, at the University of Colorado through the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research. She recently became a Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Volunteer Naturalist, a position that gives her a ‘kid fix’ as often as needed. In her spare time she hikes and skis and is learning to access her artistic side through collage.
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