NCSE bids farewell to Lin Andrews. Joining NCSE in 2019 after teaching high school biology for 18 years, she expanded the breadth and depth of NCSE's Supporting Teachers program.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she worked with NCSE's Teacher Ambassadors to develop three misconception-based curricula on climate change, evolution, and the nature of science and with former Executive Director Ann Reid to develop a series of educational essays to help teachers understand the science of the pandemic throughout the crisis.
As program director, she worked extensively with the science teacher community, coordinating NCSE's outreach efforts, representing NCSE at conferences, and contributing to journals such as The American Biology Teacher, District Administrator, and In the Trenches, the newsletter of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
Additionally, along with the NCSE Supporting Teachers team, Andrews developed and executed a two-year longitudinal study with over 30 curriculum field-test (CFT) teachers, looking at the supports and barriers teachers face when implementing NGSS storyline curricula. The results of that study were described in Research Issues in Contemporary Education.
In her final year at NCSE, Andrews oversaw the development of the new NCSE Story Shorts and Teacher Toolkit, which resulted from the knowledge gained during the CFT study. All of us at NCSE wish her the best in her new endeavors.
