|
Emily Weiss serves as a marine science & literacy education specialist and the Ocean Immersion Coordinator for MARE: Marine Activities, Resources & Education at the Lawrence Hall of Science. MARE is a K-8 professional development program that works with whole schools to increase learning and language acquisition for English-language learners. Weiss co-developed and –provided professional development for the San Francisco Unified School District’s Science & Reading Academy and co-instructed the Communicating Ocean Sciences course at UC Berkeley. Prior to coming to the Lawrence Hall of Science, Weiss worked as a reading specialist and served as a literacy consultant for the Massachusetts Department of Education, training hundreds of teachers and administrators in best practices in literacy instruction. She has run a middle school science club and designed curriculum for and taught at the New England Aquarium’s Harbor Discoveries program and the Woods Hole Children’s School of Science on topics ranging from ecology to embryology to marine electronics & engineering. Weiss’s masters work on the population structure of Atlantic cod on Georges Bank has been used to inform fisheries management decisions in New England. She has come to the MARE program to merge her love of teaching, expertise in literacy education, and passion for science and the ocean. Ms. Weiss received her B.A. in Public Policy from Brown University, her M.Ed. in Language & Literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her M.A. in Marine Biology from the Boston University Marine Program in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. |
