Heidi B. Carlone

Fall, 2005

 

CURRENT POSITION:

Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

 

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Office Address:  346 Curry Building, UNCG

Phone:  (336) 256-0495             

E-mail:  hbcarlon@uncg.edu

 

PRIMARY SPECIALIZATION(S):

Science Education

 

EDUCATION:

2000                                  Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction                         University of Colorado, Boulder                    

1991                                  B.S. Science Education                                                    North Carolina State University

 

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION:

North Carolina A license, Science 9-12

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (1996-Present):

University

2000-present            Assistant Professor, UNCG, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

1996-2000                  Graduate Instructor, Univ. of Colorado, School of Education

1996-2000                  Graduate Research Assistant, Univ. of Colorado, School of Education

             

Site-Based (schools, community agencies, etc.)

2002-present            Professional Development Coordinator for Science, New Vision Elementary School

2001-2003                  Professional Development School Leader

2001                                  University Supervisor of student teachers, elementary (general) and secondary science

1996-1997                  Graduate Instructor of school-based seminar, elementary

 

Other Related Experience

1991-1995                  High School Science Teacher        Athens Drive High School, Raleigh, NC                           

 

Summary Statement of Professional Experience prior to 1996:

1 year graduate student, graduate instructor, and graduate research assistant at Univ. of Colorado

4 years teaching high school science

1 summer research intern for North Carolina State University Department of Toxicology

 

TEACHING (1996-Present): List courses taught, dissertations and/or masters theses directed

UNCG:

CUI 370                                    Science in the Elementary School

CUI 350, 375, 400              Inquiry into Teaching and Learning (PDS Seminars)

CUI 461                                    Student Teaching Supervisor and Seminar Leader (Elementary)

CUI 688                                    The Nature of Science and Science Education

CUI 711                                    Cultural Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

CUI 730                                    Qualitative Research Design

 

 

Univ. of Colorado:

EDUC 4411                            Elementary Science Methods

EDUC 5315                            The Nature of Science and Science Education

School-based Seminar

Student Teaching Seminar

 

 

 

 

SCHOLARSHIP (1996-Present):

 

Publications and/or Performances (*Denotes peer reviewed publications)

*Carlone, H.B. & Webb, S.  (in press).  On (not) overcoming our history of hierarchy: Complexities of university/school collaboration. Science Education.

 

*Buxton, C., Carlone, H.B., & Carlone, D. (in press). Boundary spanners as bridges of student and school discourses in an urban science and math high school.  School Science and Mathematics. (Special issue on urban education)

 

Strahan, D., Carlone, H., Horn, S., Dallas, F., & Ware, A.  (in press).  Developing a Shared Stance Toward Learning at Central Elementary School.  In G. Ponder & D. Strahan (Eds.), Deep change: Cases and commentary on schools and programs of successful reform in high stakes states.  Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

 

*Carlone, H.B. (2004). The cultural production of science in reform-based physics: GirlsÕ access, participation, and resistance. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 41(4), 392-414.

 

*Carlone, H.B. (2003).  Innovative science within and against a culture of "achievement."   Science Education, 87, 307-328.

 

 *Carlone, H.B. (2003).  (Re)Producing good science students: GirlsÕ participation in high school physics.  Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 9, 17-34. 

 

*Strahan, D., Carlone, H., Horn, S., Dallas, F., & Ware, A.  (2003).  Beating the odds at Archer Elementary School: Developing a shared stance toward learning.  Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 18, 204-221.

 

Carlone, H.,  & Bowen, M.  (2003).  The fallacy of ÒauthenticÓ science classrooms:  Missing aspects of practicing science communities. In Proceedings of the 2003 7th International History, Philosophy & Science Teaching Conference, Winnipeg, Canada.

 

*Helms, J.V. & Carlone, H.B. (1999).  Science education and the commonplaces of science.  Science Education, 83, 233-245. 

 

Unpublished Scholarly Work

Carlone, H.B. (2000).  The cultural production of "science" and "scientist" in high school physics:  Girls' access, participation, and resistance.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

 

Funded Research

University/School/Teacher Education Partnership (USTEP), UNCG (8/1/05-present). Improving elementary science education at UNCGÕs Professional Development Schools in Rockingham County, $5000.

 

Thomas Undergraduate Research Scholar Grant, UNCG, (May, 2005-May, 2006). An ethnographic study of a math, science, and technology magnet elementary school, $2000

 

Undergraduate Research Assistantship Grant, UNCG, (May, 2004-May, 2005), Identifying Elementary StudentsÕ Out-of-School Science Identities, $2000

 

Undergraduate Research Assistantship Grant, UNCG, (May, 2004-May, 2005), Identifying Elementary StudentsÕ In-School Science Identities, $2000

 

University/School/Teacher Education Partnership (USTEP), UNCG (8/1/04-6/1/05).  Improving elementary science education one lesson a time, $5000

 

University/School/Teacher Education Partnership (USTEP), UNCG (8/1/04-6/1/05).  Improving elementary science education one lesson a time: Expanding lesson study opportunities for UNCGÕs Professional Development Schools, $5000

 

Regular Faculty Grant, UNCG, Identifying and understanding the development of science identities in reform-based elementary science (May, 2003- May, 2004), $5000

 

University/School/Teacher Education Partnership (USTEP), UNCG (8/1/03-6/1/04), Using collaborative professional development models to integrate standards-based science in the elementary school curriculum, $4522.

Undergraduate Research Assistantship Grant, UNCG, (May, 2003-May, 2004), Identifying and understanding the development of science identities in reform-based elementary science, $1500

 

Summer Excellence Grant, UNCG, Bringing literacy and science together in the context of a collaborative teacher study group (June-August, 2003), $4000 

 

Summer Excellence Grant, UNCG, Moving beyond the ÒbasicsÓ: Integrating science and literacy in the elementary curriculum  (June-August, 2002), $4000

 

Summer Excellence Grant, UNCG, Integrated science as a means to a more inclusive science (June – August, 2001), $4000

        

New Faculty Research Grant, UNCG, Integrated science as a means to a more inclusive science (December, 2000-June, 2001), $4954

 

American Dissertation Fellow, American Association of University Women, (AAUW) The cultural production of science and scientist in high school physics: GirlsÕ access, participation, and resistance (July, 1999- May, 2000), $15,000

 

American Educational Research Association/Spencer Doctoral Fellow (1998-1999), $20,000

 

Recipient, Brown/Ricketts/Udick Grant, AAUW Boulder Branch (September, 1999- May, 2000), $1,000

 

Recipient, Pearl McPherson Spencer Award, University of Colorado Graduate School (Fall, 1999), $750

 

Recipient, Beverly Sears DeanÕs Small Grant, University of Colorado Graduate School (Fall, 1998),

         $510

 

Pended Funding:

National Science Foundation CAREER grant (under review), CAREER: A study of pedagogical practices and the development of studentsÕ science identities, $701,857.

 

Presentations at National Meetings  (*Peer-reviewed)

Carlone, H.B. (October, 2005). Science identity as an analytic lens for science education: Possibilities and complexities. Paper presented at the Science at the Crossroads Conference, University of Connecticut.

 

*Buxton, C.A., Carlone, H.B., & Carlone, D. (April, 2005). Boundary spanners as bridges of student and school discourses in an urban science and math high school. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

 

*Carlone, H.B. (April, 2005). Science identity as an analytic lens for science education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Dallas, TX.

 

*Tomasek, T., & Carlone, H. (April, 2005). Improving elementary science teaching through Japanese lesson study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Dallas, TX.

 

*Buxton, C.A. & Carlone, H.B. (April, 2004). The role of boundary objects in creating discourses of science in an urban science and math high school.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

*Webb, S., & Carlone, H.B.  (April, 2004). Promoting science inquiry in a fifth grade teacher study group using a lesson study framework.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA. 

 

*Carlone, H.B. & Bowen, M.  (July, 2003). The fallacy of ÒauthenticÓ science classrooms:  Missing aspects of practicing science communities. Paper presented at the 7th International History, Philosophy & Science Teaching Conference, Winnipeg, Canada.

 

*Carlone, H.B., & Webb, S.  (April, 2003).  Negotiating meaning amidst the shifting locus of power in a collaborative planning group.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.  

 

*Webb, S., & Carlone, H.B. (April, 2003). Problematizing authentic literacy practices:  University and school based educators negotiate meanings of literacy within a collaborative project.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

 

*Carlone, H.B., & Webb, S.  (March, 2003). Complicating ÒcollaborationÓ in a professional development project:  Competing cultural models and the dynamic nature of power.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.

 

*Webb, S., Carlone, H.B., & Duffy, A.  (November, 2002). ÒThis is how we do literacy hereÓ: A collaborative planning team negotiates meanings of literacy within a framework of science inquiry.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL.   

 

*Carlone, H.B. (April, 2002).  Problematizing Òbest practiceÓ discourse in science education via an analysis of girlsÕ participation in reform-based science.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

 

*Carlone, H.B. (April, 2002). Embracing the prescriptive and resisting the ÒauthenticÓ:  An examination of tool-based practices in high school physics.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, New Orleans, LA.

 

*Carlone, H.B.  (April, 2001).  Invoking micro and macro contexts to understand girlsÕ participation and learning in high school physics.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.

 

*Carlone, H.B.  (March, 2001).  Innovative science within and against a culture of Òachievement.Ó  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, St. Louis, MO. 

 

*Carlone, H.B.  (April, 2000). The cultural production of scientist identities in high school physics:  GirlsÕ access, participation, and resistance.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, New Orleans, LA.

        

*Carlone, H.B.  (June, 1999).  Constructing gender and science in school science:  Contesting sociohistorical legacies.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National WomenÕs Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM.

                          

*Carlone, H.B.  (April, 1999).  Identifying and expanding the meanings of ÔscientistÕ in school science:  Implications for the participation of girls.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

 

*Carlone, H.B.  (March, 1999).  Producing, contesting, and being produced by scientific practice:  An illustration of practice theory.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Boston, MA.

 

*Brand, C., Carlone, H. B., Rader, C., & Lewis, C.  (April, 1998).  Prospects and challenges for children creating science models.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, San Diego, CA.

 

*Carlone, H. B.  (April, 1998).  Learning to become a scientist:  The enculturation of the newcomer into the practice of science.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, San Diego, CA.

 

*Carlone, H. B., Garcia, C., & Lewis, C.  (April, 1998).  The science theater/teatro de ciencias project as a design experiment.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

 

*Carlone, H. B.  (March, 1997).  Examining the knowledge and reasoning employed in childrenÕs scientific models and explanations.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago, IL.

 

*Lewis, C., Rader, C., Brand, C., & Carlone, H. B.  (March, 1997).  Models children build:  Content, logic and educational impact.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago, IL.

 

*Robinson, C. D., Carlone, H. B., Rader, C., and Garcia, C. E.  (July, 1996).  See it!  Draw it!  Make it move!  Learning through modeling:  The sTc project.  Poster presented at the annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego, CA.

 

Presentations at Local and Regional Meetings:  (*peer-reviewed papers)

Carlone, H.B.  (November, 2002). Teaching science for all:  What is multicultural science education, anyway?  Workshop to be presented (in collaboration with members of PDS team of pre-service teachers) at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Science Teachers Association, Greensboro, NC.

 

Carlone, H.B.  (October, 2001).  Integrating standards-based elementary science with literacy:  Inspiring ideas from UNCG.  Workshop presented (in collaboration with PDS team of pre-service teachers) at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Science Teachers Association, Greensboro, NC. 

 

 

*Carlone, H.B.  (March, 2001).  Girls' participation, interest, and resistance in reform-based and traditional high school physics.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Research in Education, Charlotte, NC. 

 

*Carlone, H.B.  (January, 1999).  Moving beyond difference-based explanations for the gender problem in science education.  Paper presented at the Third Annual University of Colorado Feminist Symposium, Boulder, CO.

 

Lewis, C., Brand, C., Carlone, H. B., Garcia, C. E., Pulver, P., Rader, C., & Robinson, C. D.  (September, 1996).  Science Theater/Teatro de Ciencias.  Presented at the ChildÕs Play Workshop, Boulder, CO.

 

Invited Presentations:

Carlone, H.B. (October, 2003).  Student voice in the STEM classroom.  Invited plenary session speaker at a national meeting of Project Kaleidoscope, Richmond, VA.

 

Carlone, H.B. (January 2001).  Evaluating the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Integrated Science Curriculum, Part II.  Presentation at the BSCS Integrated Science Teacher Orientation Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. 

 

Carlone, H.B. & Coulson, D.  (November, 2000).  Evaluating the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Integrated Science Curriculum, Part I.  Presentation at the BSCS Integrated Science District Leadership Conference, Colorado Springs, CO.

 

Carlone, H.B. (September, 1999).  The Gendered nature of science:  Implications for the participation of girls, Presentation for the Boulder branch of the American Association of University Women, Boulder, CO.

 

Carlone, H.B.  (November, 1997). Hands-on/Minds-on science.  Conference for Ethiopian Educators, University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

Carlone, H.B.  (October, 1996).  Elementary science education in Colorado.  Conference for Ethiopian Educators, University of Colorado, Boulder. 

 

 

 

SERVICE (1996-Present):

Service to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

Institutional Review Board, 2002-present

O. Max Gardner Award Committee, 2001-2003

 

Service to the School of Education at UNCG

School of Education representative for the Institutional Review Board, 2002-present

Search committee member for Associate Dean/Director of Research, present

Scholarship committee member, 2004-present

Search committee member for Counseling Education faculty positions, 2004-2005

North Carolina Teaching Fellows faculty mentor, 2000-2005

Executive Council (School of Education) faculty representative, Fall 2001-Spring 2002

Faculty representative for Fall Focus event at UNCG (recruitment), Fall 2001, 2002, 2003

 

Service to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (CUI) at UNCG

Advisory Board Member, Center for School Accountability, Staff Development, and Teacher Quality (Spring 2001-2003)

Elementary Education Program Committee, Fall 2000-present

Secondary Education Program Committee, Fall, 2000-Spring 2001

Search Committee for faculty position in secondary education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Fall 2000-2001

Lighthouse Project Evaluation Team, 2000-2001

Teacher Education Research Interest Group, Spring, 2001

Professional Development Schools Program Evaluation, Fall, 2000

 

Other professional activities related to the field of science education:

Research Committee, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), (2001-2004)

Program Committee, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), (2005-2007)

                                           (Strand 6 Co-coordinator: Cultural, Social, and Gender Issues)

 

Review Experience

Science Education Editorial Board member, 2005-present

I also serve as a reviewer for: Journal of Research in Science Teaching, School Science and Mathematics, American Educational Research Journal

 

Program reviewer, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (1999-present)

         Strand 2 (Classroom contexts and learner characteristics) (2003-2004)      

Strand 3 (Research on Teaching) (1999-2000)

Strand 6 (Cultural, Social, and Gender Issues)  (2001-present)

Pre-conference workshop proposals (2001-2004)

 

Program reviewer, American Educational Research Association  (1999-present)

         Division C (Learning and Instruction), Section 3 (Science)

Science Teaching and Learning SIG

Division G (Social Context), Section 1 (Local Contexts of Teaching and Learning

 

Program reviewer, National Science Teachers Association (2002-2004)

         Proposals for the NARST-sponsored sessions

 

Editorial Review Board Member, PEERs Matter (a NARST and NSTA joint-sponsored publication to bridge research and practice), 2001-2004

 

Service to External Communities

Professional Development workshops and Japanese lesson study provided to multiple Professional Development Schools in Guilford and Rockingham County related to elementary science education (2001-present)

Advisory Board Member and Assistant External Evaluator, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study: An Integrated Approach (Curriculum development sponsored by the National Science Foundation), (Summer, 2000-Summer, 2001)

 

Helped organize student presentations at F.I.R.S.T. (Females Involved in Real Science and Technology) Conference sponsored by Junior League of Greensboro and Tarheel Triad Girl Scout Council, (March, 2001)

Invited guest, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Integrated Science Design Conference, (Summer, 2000)

Invited guest, AERA/Spencer Foundation Summer Institute, Boulder, CO.  (Summer, 2000)

 

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS:

American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellow, 1999-2000

American Educational Research Association/Spencer Fellow, 1998-1999

Recipient, Elizabeth A. Wilson Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Elementary Educator, University of Colorado  (1996-1997)

JayceeÕs Young Educator of the Year Award Nominee for Athens Drive High School  (1993 & 1994)

Sallie Mae First-Year Outstanding Teacher Award Nominee for Wake County, NC (1991-1992)

Recipient, North Carolina Teaching Fellowship (Fall, 1987-May, 1991)

 

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