Place-Based Science Teaching - Aragaki, Whitney

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Auteur(s) : Aragaki, Whitney - Milks, Kirstin

Editeur : Sage Publications Inc

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2025

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 272.0

ISBN : 9781071973684

Résumé :
Contributor
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: First Look at Place-Based Teaching Practices
Chapter 2: Where are you?
Chapter 3: When are you?
Chapter 4: Who are you?
Chapter 5: Who are we together?
Chapter 6: Virtual Spaces and Our Places
Chapter 7: Place-Based Teaching for Sustainable Futures
References
Index
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Biographie:

Whitney Aragaki is an educator, parent, and learner from Hilo, Hawai?i.? She supports students to learn through a lens of abundance that honors place, people and cultures. Her teaching focuses around conversations, practices and systems that sustain the intimate inter-relationship of public education, community and environment. Whitney is a fifth-generation Hawai?i Island resident of Japanese ancestry. She is the daughter of two educators, and was a student in her mother's biology class. She currently serves as a high school science teacher at her alma mater, Waiakea High School and as a Professor of Practice and Faculty Lead at Reach University. Her two children also thrive in this supportive public-school ecosystem. Whitney has a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Swarthmore College, a Master of Science in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Education. Whitney, a National Board Certified Teacher, is the 2022 Hawai?i State Teacher of the Year and National Teacher of the Year Finalist. She is a 2021 Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching and a 2023 Obama Foundation USA Leader.

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Sommaire:

Dr.?Whitney Aragaki?(she/they) is an educator, parent, and learner from Hilo, Hawai?i.? She supports students to learn through a lens of abundance that honors place, people and cultures. Her teaching focuses around conversations, practices and systems that sustain the intimate inter-relationship of public education, community and environment.?Aragaki is a fifth-generation Hawai?i Island resident of Japanese ancestry. She is the daughter of two educators, and was a student in her mother's biology class. She currently serves as a high school science teacher. Her two children also thrive in this supportive public-school ecosystem.?Aragaki has a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Swarthmore College, and a Master of Science in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. She recently earned a Doctor of Philosophy with a focus in curriculum and instruction.?Aragaki is the 2022 Hawai?i State Teacher of the Year and National Teacher of the Year Finalist. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Mathematics, and a two-time state finalist for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. In 2023, she was named to the inaugural class of Obama Foundation Leaders USA.

Dr. Kirstin Milks (she/they) creates innovative, collaborative, science- and justice-oriented learning experiences for children and adults. Kirstin is a National Board Certified Teacher, a Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, a Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative.? A graduate of Stanford University's Schools of Medicine (PhD) and Education (MA), Milks generates wisdom and co-designs curriculum with science students at Bloomington High School South in Bloomington, Indiana. She also works with organizations including the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the College Board, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Girl Scouts, and universities and school districts across the country to envision, engineer, and enact the future of education, with a focus on humane and socially-responsive science teaching. Milks is the co-editor of SOCIAL ACTION STORIES, a work/book of high-impact storytelling for classroom and community, and is the 2025 president of the National Association of Biology Teachers. She has published articles, essays, and lesson designs in publications including The American Biology Teacher, Education Leadership, and Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives.