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Jessica Thompson is a research assistant professor in the UW College of Education. Her research focuses on engaging underserved students in science and on helping science teachers work toward ambitious equitable pedagogy.
Jessica was awarded an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship and the 2007 Selma Greenberg Dissertation Award for her dissertation work with underserved girls in science. She is one of two 2010 Knowles Science Teaching Fellows and will be working on a project titled Buffering against Regression: Supporting Co-Learning between Teacher Candidates and Cooperating Teachers. She founded a video club with Melissa Braaten to support in-service teachers in developing a learning community that works toward ambitious equitable practices. She also works with teacher candidates and is a Co-PI with Mark Windschitl on grants from the Carnegie Foundation and the National Science Foundation. In particular, she focuses on teacher and student identity development across multiple contexts and how tool systems support teacher and student learning. She has a background in Biology and Chemistry and taught high school and middle school science as well as a drop-out prevention courses for eight years in North Carolina and Washington State. For the last four years she has taught secondary and elementary science teaching methods courses and Culturally Responsive Math and Science Teaching at the UW.
