Thea Charles

Professional Title & Affiliation:

Administrator, New York City Schools
Project Director of STEM Curriculum Development at Girls Inc. of New York City
Head of Knowledge and Impact at Siegel Family Endowment

Education:

Ph.D. Science Education, Stony Brook University
M.S. Science Education, Herbert H. Lehman College
B.S. Environmental Science, Manhattan College, Riverdale

Research:

History, development and impact of the Chemistry Regents Exam
Development of STEM identity in girls

Presentations:

Charles, Thea (2020, May). Teachers Are the New Social Media Influencers. Schools that Can Forum. Virtual.

Charles, Thea (2020, Feb). The Impact of Professional Development Models on the Perception of Teacher Roles. Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond, Kentucky.

Charles, Thea (2019, Feb). Addressing the Tech Revolution: Social Change and Philanthropy. NYU Wagner. NY, NY.

Mark Guzdial, Aman Yadav, Thea Charles. Kelly Powers. "Computing Education as a Foundation for 21st Century Literacy," To Code + Beyond Thinking + Doing, 11 January 2019, New York, New York

Charles, Thea. (2018, July). Facts versus fads: Understanding the historical development of chemistry education to inform reform. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. South Bend, IN.

Charles, Thea. (2018, February). Effective Models for Integrating Computational Thinking into NYC Elementary Schools: A Proposed Research Agenda. Research idea accepted to the annual Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Charles, Thea. (2017, August). Ignorance is Not Bliss: Investing in Professional Development Models for

Computing Education. Research idea presented at the annual International Computing Education Research Conference, Tacoma, WA.

Charles, Thea. (2016, June). History of Regents chemistry: An exploration of the development and impact of science education in NYS. Oral presentation at the American Chemical Society middle Atlantic regional meeting, NY, NY.

Charles, Thea. (2014, October). Correlation between quality of public school education and Chemistry regents pass rates across the five boroughs of New York City. Poster presented at the annual Association of Science Teacher Education Conference, New York, NY

Kelly, A.M., Charles, T., Ha, M.,& Sheppard, K. (2014, July). A case study of a school district assessment system and its correlation with student performance in physical sciences. Poster presented at the annual Physics Education Research Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mark Guzdial, Aman Yadav, Thea Charles. Kelly Powers. "Computing Education as a Foundation for 21st Century Literacy," To Code + Beyond Thinking + Doing, 11 January 2019, New York, New York

Publications:

Kelly, A. M., Charles, T.,* Ha, M., & Sheppard, K. (2015). A case study of a school district assessment system and its correlation with student performance in physical sciences. In P.V. Engelhardt, A.D. Churukian, & D.L. Jones (Eds.), 2014 American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Series: Vol. 1070. Physics Education Research Conference(pp. 127-130). Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics.doi:10.1119/perc.2014.pr.028