In an effort to be true to my brand, Creating Balanced Community, I’ve begun implementing what I call “Community Days” in my classroom.  This is a time to celebrate our hard work, build relationships, and have fun! Each community day…

The most interesting moment of my internship was seeing mitosis in action via epi-florescence microscopy. My greatest challenge was dissecting tiny C. elegans to find single-celled embryos. My biggest takeaway is that 99% of the time, experiments do not work…

        I had a great internship experience thanks to Dr. Amy Maddox and Katie Rehain Bell of UNC!  I spent 3 weeks in the Maddox lab in Chapel Hill which studies cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans.  C.…

Spending a week at NCCAT with the other Kenan Fellows was rejuvenating!  It is inspiring to be around a group of such talented, motivated, goofy educators.  I look forward to starting my internship Monday and then developing an awesome project…

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