{"id":38487,"date":"2018-07-18T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=38487"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:12:58","slug":"thomas-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/thomas-mckenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas J. McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Thomas \u201cTJ\u201d McKenna is a lecturer in science education at BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. He has spent the past 20 years as a scientist, educator (formal and informal), on-air science communicator, and faculty member focused on uncovering what works well in STEM education and how we can improve in scaling research and practice-based efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McKenna works at the nexus of policy, practice, and research in ways that deepen the understanding of how to make progress on the ecological problem of supporting teachers (preservice &amp; in-service) in their efforts to offer high-quality science learning to all our students. He is also the founder and creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngssphenomena.com\/\">Phenomena for NGSS<\/a>, an educational website designed to support teachers in learning more about phenomena-based instruction.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2023\/boston-students-visit-bu-campus-during-stem-week\/\">Boston Students Visit BU Campus During STEM Week<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/buzzing-around-creatively-teaching-science-to-second-graders\/\">Buzzing Around: Creatively Teaching Science to Second Graders<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/institutional-racism-in-science-and-healthcare-class\/\">This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":6684,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/38487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/38487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75972,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/38487\/revisions\/75972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}