| Lynn
serves as the Director of the Institute for Inquiry,
a professional development leadership program that provides
inquiry-based workshops and curricula for elementary
educators from throughout the country. As director of
the Institute, she develops partnerships with school
districts and serves as an advisor to local and national
reform efforts.
Lynn joined the Exploratorium staff after seven years
of elementary classroom teaching experience in the San
Francisco Unified School District. She has taught science
inquiry courses at San Francisco State University and
the University of California at Berkeley Extension,
and served on the faculty of the Association of Science
and Technology Centers' (ASTC) Professional Development
Institutes. She recently served on the committee that
developed Inquiry and the National Science Education
Standards and a committee sponsored by the National
Institute for Science Education (NISE) to examine effective
professional development strategies for science education.
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