About Us

Making OpenSciEd EASY!

Teachers are at the heart of what we do.

The mission of The OpenSciEducator is to make teaching OpenSciEd easier for teachers. Our products save teachers time, money, and stress while enabling them to provide quality science education to their students.

Our "Why"

It’s clear that OpenSciEd is the gold standard for what science-education should be. It is highly rated on Achieve rubrics and EdReports, and is lauded amongst science educators as being the best curriculum out there. And because it is open-source, it is available to ALL for FREE.

That said, the curriculum can feel unwieldy – especially to teachers newer to the NGSS shifts in science education. And even for an experienced teacher, the materials can feel overwhelming. The teacher guide is wordy and it can be difficult to navigate through all of the google folders. And the prep time . . . let’s just say it often doesn’t feel sustainable.

The company was founded by a science teacher who began creating her own resources to help her and the teachers she was training stay more organized and save time. She put these on Teachers Pay Teachers and the response was clear – teachers need more supports for teaching OpenSciEd.

OUR MISSION

The mission of The OpenSciEducator is to make teaching OpenSciEd EASY! We create practical resources to help teachers implement OpenSciEd in the real world, with students who are not on grade-level, with very little planning time, with students who struggle with writing and organization. These resources are intended to give teachers some of their time back while maintaining the integrity of the OpenSciEd curriculum so that ALL students can experience high quality science education.

The OpenSci Educator

The OpenSci Educator was founded for teachers, by a teacher who has been involved in STEM education since 1996 as a program designer, teacher, instructional leader, STEM coordinator, and consultant. She received her Master’s of Education degree from Vanderbilt University and taught in the Nashville area for 15 years. Her work with students was featured in Forbes and Fortune magazines, and is the author of the article “How STEM Transformed a Failing School” in the book From School to Shining School by EdSurge. She was recognized as the Metropolitan Nashville Teacher of the Year in 2014. As the STEM Director for Tulsa Public Schools, she tripled the number of STEM programs available to students, targeting areas with fewer economic resources. As the Global Director for Learning Design and Services for TIES (Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM), she consulted on projects with schools, districts, and governments in the United States, Bermuda, Israel, Mexico, and Egypt. She recently served as the Innovation Educator and Teacher Coach at the Independent School in Wichita, Kansas where she taught OpenSciEd for two years and trained fellow teachers in the curriculum as a certified OpenSciEd facilitator.