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Biography: Brian Drayton

Brian Drayton
Co-Director, Center for School Reform
617 873-9627
Brian_Drayton@terc.edu

Program/Areas of Interest

Inquiry in science; Electronic communities; Teacher change; Ecology and life science curriculum; Discourse analysis; Public understanding of science

Biographical Summary

I have been at TERC since 1986 (with a 4-month hiatus in 1988), working on a wide range of projects, primarily in the following fields:

  • Research: (in projects such as The Inquiry-Based Science Classroom in Context, Researching Science in the Wireless High School, Under the Microscope)
  • Curriculum development: (Biocomplexity and the Habitable Planet, Global Lab, The Ecology Curriculum, Astrobiology, Star Schools, MBL)
  • Teacher Professional Development: (Hands-On Elementary Science, Teacher Enhancement in Pedagogy through Ecology (TEPE), Lab-net)
  • Electronic communities: (Lab-net, LSC-Net, Global Lab, Eyes to the Future, MSPNet and IGERT Resource Center)

    • Before coming to TERC, I worked as a freelance editor, ran a rest home for 3 years, and worked in the customer education department of LISP Machines, Inc. I have a Ph.D. in Plant Ecology, and undergraduate and graduate degrees in linguistics. I am married to Darcy Drayton, an artist and Waldorf School teacher; we have two grown sons.

    Selected Publications

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