Stephanie Chasteen Biography

Stephanie Chasteen is a physicist and education researcher with a focus on faculty development. After obtaining a PhD in condensed matter physics, Stephanie turned her focus to education reform at the Exploratorium Teacher Institute in San Francisco. At the Exploratorium she was inspired by the creativity and wonder of science teaching using simple materials and careful observation, and made it her mission to help more students experience the joy of scientific inquiry. In service of this mission, she joined the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she spent over a decade learning about and leading research-based instruction and education reform. She now runs her own independent consulting business (Chasteen Educational Consulting) supporting broad use of evidence-based practices in STEM.

She has been involved in dozens of educational projects, usually as external evaluator, including the previous iteration of the FTI (the New Faculty Workshop), the Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3), the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) and the PhET Interactive Simulations. Stephanie's passion is supporting the excellent work in the physics education community, spreading good ideas and innovation as a "change agent at large."

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http://chasteenconsulting.com