Therese Arsenault

Therese worked as a Research Assistant on the Understanding of Consequence Project in 2009-2010.  While at Harvard, her work focused on understanding how students reason about science concepts and how teachers come to understand and develop students’ conceptual understandings. Upon graduation, she moved to San Francisco where works as a science specialist in a local elementary school, facilitating a community-school partnership between local scientists and the students. She has also worked in the California Academy of Sciences docent program facilitating the learning and teaching of evolution and has mentored graduate students in the advancing of learning and teaching of science.