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My name is Alex Hartley. I grew up in Nashville, TN and went to Wesleyan University, where I majored in Neuroscience and Psychology. While I was in college, I worked at the Green Street Arts Center, volunteered at MacDonough Elementary School, and taught Physics, Biology and French with Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia for three summers. After college, I interned in the Central Office at DC Public Schools in the Office of Data and Accountability and the Office of Transformation Management. During this time, I tutored high school students in math and science courses. I then joined the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) and was a student teacher for two semesters in 6th grade science classrooms.

 

Since January of 2013, I have been a science educator with with Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn at the South End Technology Center @ Tent City.  I have taught workshops and classes on a variety of STEM related topics to middle and high school youth at schools, housing developments, and community centers across the city.

 

In  September 2014, I founded Kindersteam with Alicia Carroll. During the 2014-2015 school year, I volunteered in her K2 (Kindergarten) classroom at the PA Shaw, helping the her design and implement engineering and STEAM activities. I also maintained our blog, which you can see at here. In January 2016 I started working with a Kindergarten teacher at the Mather School in Boston to help her develop and implement a STEM unit around water.
 

I enjoy thinking about how neuroscience could be applied to education, the impact that technology and social media have on  individuals and society, and how to bring about social change on a large scale. I also enjoy working with youth, learning about neuroscience, spending time with my family, tap dancing, choreographing dances for large groups of non-dancers, reading, playing guitar and accordion, cooking and baking things from scratch. I also love to be outside and go hiking and rock climbing as often as I can!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About Me

This red box appears on some of the pages. These are the questions that I wonder about. I don't have answers to all of them yet, but hopefully I will soon...

And what you make of it, let me say

You get what you take from it so be amazed
And never stop, never stop, never stop
You gotta be brave

~The Weepies, All This Beauty

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