Experience

TERC

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Center Director

  • Jan 1992 - Present

  Joni co-directs the Center for School Reform at TERC, a nonprofit research and development institution aimed at improving mathematics and science teaching and learning. The Center has multiple projects researching the teaching and learning of STEM, creating and facilitating electronic communities, developing new science curricula, and implementing teacher development programs. She has created of multiple online communities of practice and collegial networks to facilitate knowledge sharing across multiple communities. She is especially interested in the use of video paired with facilitated discourse, to enable broad outreach and dissemination of innovative ideas aimed at improving STEM teaching and learning. The platforms that she and her team have developed, provide a mechanism for researchers and educators to share and offer feedback on new initiatives, share promising practices, challenges encountered, and mechanisms to measure impact. Currently, Joni is the Principal Investigator of the STEM Teacher Leadership Network (STEMTLnet.org), the STEM for All Video Showcase (stemforall2021.videohall.com) and the STEM for All Multiplex (Multiplex.videohall.com) both funded by the National Science Foundation. Show less