Professional experience

Shawn's professional experience. For skills please see Category:Skills

Classroom Teaching

Ithaca City School District, Ithaca, NY

1994-95, 97. Substitute for math and science. Observing student teacher.

International American School, Warsaw, Poland

1995-96. Head of science department, small as it was.

Coalition School for Social Change, New York, NY

1997-2003. Physics (5 years), chemistry (2 years), earth science (2 years), environmental science (1 year), living environment (1 year), biology (1 semester), and music (1 semester). Ran yearbook and computer labs every year. Collaborated with teachers from all departments on curriculum and pedagogy. Some training in reading-education. Community service learning.

Other Professional Educational Work

New York City Board of Education

1998. Ad hoc board to review and represent a standards-based curriculum for all of New York City.

EnergyTeachers.org

2004-present. Founder, president, treasurer. Consulting schools; reviewing books and equipment. Collaborations with dozens of other organizations and schools, hundreds of teachers. Incorporation; bookkeeping; grant-writing; taxes; employment. Online fundraising; building and scripting virtual educational simulators and immersive 3D experiences; web site design and programming; database programming. Exhibiting and presenting at teacher conventions and community events.

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Physics Teachers

1998-present. Committee on the History and Philosophy of PhysicsVice chair 2012, chair 2013. New England Section; New York Section.

Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers

Massachusetts Environmental Education Society

Science Teachers Association of New York State

New York State Technology Education Association

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association

Professional History of Science Work

Quantum Pioneers, a bibliometric study, with Helge Kragh

1991, Physis, an international journal in the history of science. Bibliometry is the study of history through measuring citations and references between scientists.

Textbooks tell the story of an unchanging curriculum

An ongoing study of textbooks for physics, measuring how the written curriculum has or hasn't

changed in the past 100 years. I plan to measure change in other science fields and compare physics to those metrics.