Jodie A. Galosy, Ph.D. ’05 (Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy) has joined the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) as Senior Program Officer for Research. Galosy will direct research activities that inform and support KSTF’s cornerstone Teaching Fellowships program, which provides five-year fellowships to teachers of high school mathematics and science early in their careers.
Galosy joins KSTF from the University of California, Davis, where she was Assistant Director for Teacher Professional Development and Evaluation in Education at the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology.
“Jodie is deeply invested in beginning teachers, having worked with them for over a decade as a mentor-practitioner and a researcher,” said Dr. Angelo Collins, KSTF’s Executive Director. “She brings knowledge and passion to her work at KSTF, where she’ll help to develop and disseminate further research on what it takes to effectively support beginning mathematics and science teachers.”
While Galosy focuses on enhancing the overall KSTF research program, MSU College of Education Professor Ralph Putnam (former KSTF Senior Program Officer for Research) will continue, as a consultant, to mentor KSTF Research Fellows through May 2012 when the program ends.
About Jodie Galosy
Galosy’s first exposure to teaching came when she was studying pre-med and was asked to substitute-teach biology at a local school. The experience convinced her to change course and pursue a degree in science and education. As an undergraduate science student, she learned first-hand that women often lack access to science and science education. She has advocated for opportunities for women in science throughout her career.
Galosy taught life science to St. Louis middle and high school students for 20 years, 15 of which were spent in an all-girls school. During her tenure there, she became interested in adolescent psychology and deepened her involvement as a teacher professional development leader. She earned an M.Ed. in Counseling from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, before obtaining her Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
For her dissertation research, Galosy followed seven middle and high school science teachers through their first two years of teaching in an urban district to understand what they learned about teaching “science-for-all.”
Galosy has taught pre-service and graduate teacher education courses and worked in curriculum development and assessment at the national, district and state levels. She served as project director for two National Science Foundation-funded studies of the Exploratorium Beginning Teacher Induction Program and was Co-Principal Investigator for an online curriculum project funded through the National Institutes of Health.
“The real role research can play in helping make programs like the KSTF Teaching Fellowships possible is to find the principles and levers necessary to seed the educational system with young men and women committed to quality teaching and educational leadership for the long-term,” said Galosy.
>> Text courtesy of Dentsu Communications