Sarah Fick Email & Phone Number

Bethel, Me, Us

• Led strategy for insights and recommendations within the Amplify platform.• Coordinated product suites to develop near- and long-range strategy for data-based insights and recommendations within the learning platform.• Collaborated with platform teams to describe the scope of back-end data work and design work involved with the recommendation plans and create roadmaps for ensuring that work is done in time to release products on schedule.• Coordinates research across User Experience Research, Data Science, and Learning Science to ensure that the right questions are being asked to inform product development, and that the data collected will help to answer those questions.• Collaborates across multiple teams to provide research-based support for the development of tools to support teaching and learning within an online platform for Amplify's ELA, Math, and Science curricula.• Conducts educational research studies through the collection of observational and artifact based data using qualitative analysis to identify patterns and trends in how teachers and students use and learn from Amplify products.• Supports agile teams in short- and long-range strategic planning through the development of insights from educational research.• Develops short research briefs to support tech teams to understand the impact of complex educational theories and practices on their design work.• Provides feedback to teams on intermediate products based on educational theories and practice.

Pullman, Washington, United States

• Designs and conducts research studies using surveys, interviews, conversation analysis, and student work focused on supporting the use of complex analytical lenses in science learning.• Redesigned courses to bring equity and accessibility forward in instruction about and for science learning.• Published 8 peer reviewed articles in top publications, presented at national and international conferences to teachers, researchers, and teacher educators.• Coordinated a conference for teachers and researchers focused on the teaching analytical skills for the future of science education.• Lead researcher for a $500k National Science Foundation research grant.

Charlottesville, Virginia

• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to develop curriculum materials that integrate science, engineering, and computer science using design-based research methods for improving the curriculum. • Provided curriculum-based professional learning to teachers in CA, TN, and VA.• Designed and conducted research studies using surveys, classroom observation, interviews, and student work to examine teachers’ use of the curriculum materials and student learning.• Published 8 peer reviewed publications • Presented at national and international conferences.• Awarded and coordinated a $100k National Science Foundation conference grant bringing together 30 researchers, teachers, and policy makers for a facilitated conversation about the analytical tools needed for the future of science education, resulting in a publicly available published proceedings.

• Conducted design-based research on middle school curriculum materials with a focus on adapting the materials to improve student learning using interviews, classroom observations, and analyses of student work.• Conducted research on teachers’ learning using interviews, classroom observation, and surveys.• Worked with preservice and in-service teachers as well as PhDs on improving science instruction.• Published 7 peer reviewed publications for teachers and researchers.

• Supported Teach for America corp members to develop knowledge of science teaching practices through teaching seminar courses and field observation.

• Worked with a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, biologists, and education researchers.• Developed curriculum materials for middle and high school students about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. The project included climate science, biodiversity, and GIS data analysis.

Ph.D., Science Education

M.S., Natural Resources – Environmental Informatics

M.A., Educational Studies – Science Education

Summer Teachers' Institute

Outdoor Educator Course

B.A., Biology, Environmental Studies