Janet Carlson

Associate Professor, Emerita · Stanford University · company speakers →

Janet Carlson, PhD , is an Associate Professor (Research) Emerita at Stanford University’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET). Her work focuses on the bridge between research and practice, and she has supported a diverse portfolio of research, design, and development activities that improve instruction and develop leading educators who emphasize equity in the classroom and positively impact the learning of all students. Janet’s interest in bringing research into practice began when she was a classroom teacher. After earning a BA in Environmental Biology from Carleton College, she taught high school biology and middle school life science teacher and joined NABT. She quickly realized that the mix of curriculum, assessments, and teaching practices she used affected the learning outcomes of her students. Read More Her curiosity about what was more and less effective —and why—led her back to graduate school and further study. She went on to earn an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from Kansas State University and a PhD in Science Education from the University of Colorado. In between and after earning those degrees, she spent 20 years at BSCS (now BSCS Science Learning), where she served as the Executive Director. She then moved to CSET at Stanford, where she has been based for over a decade.

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