Dr. Jane Larson joined BSCS as a Science Educator in 2007. At BSCS she focuses primarily on external evaluation of educational programs. She is currently evaluating three National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects. She is working with groups of scientists and educators at Colorado State University to evaluate an NSF-funded GK–12 program and a Noyce Scholarship grant. In addition, she is completing an evaluation of PlantingScience, an online inquiry-based program for students developed by the Botanical Society of America and funded by NSF.

Before joining BSCS, Jane lived and worked overseas with the Department of Defense Dependents Schools. Her previous position was as an Instructional Systems Specialist for science education 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. Jane has also 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 presently serves as a Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks volunteer naturalist, a seed collection team leader for Boulder County Open Space, and a volunteer with Wildlands Restoration Volunteers.

Jane earned a B.A. in General Science, a M.Ed. in Secondary Education, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialty in science from the University of Colorado. In her spare time she hikes and skis, and is learning to access her artistic side through collage. She and her physics-teacher husband retired to Boulder, Colorado in June 2006.

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