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Who made this web site? Thank you for visiting my site. In case you are curious about me, here is some basic information. I am a middle school science teacher, and I have taught science in Oakland, California, for sixteen years, and math for five years. I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1986, with a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies. I received my secondary science credential the following year, also from UC Berkeley. I earned a Masters degree in Secondary Education in 1998 from San Jose State University (you can read my thesis, Student Questions: Foundation for Inquiry, here.) I have been active in teacher research for fifteen years. In the year 2000, my colleague Caleb Cheung and I became the first teachers in Oakland to be National Board Certified. Since then, the number of NBCTs in the District has grown to about 16. We are working to support other teachers in the District to achieve certification. You can read about National Board Certification and our local efforts here. In 1990 I traveled to a cloud forest reserve in Ecuador with University Research Expeditions. I spent two weeks helping collect plants with a botanist from UC Davis, and a third week working with teachers from local schools, helping develop curriculum about the environment for them to use with their students. I even got to teach a lesson at the local high school! I joined another expedition in 1999, to the coral reefs of St. Croix, where I worked with a biologist studying coral. Within my district I have been active in bringing middle school teachers together to improve our curriculum. We have met to research, develop and share ideas for hands on activities, and to revise our district guidelines to reflect the national standards. This year, with support from grants from Chabot Space and Science Center and the National Science Foundation, we have taken on the task of crafting a curriculum guide for middle school science, through the Curriculum In Focus project. For several years, I was on loan to the Lawrence Hall of Science working for the FOSS program, helping write new middle school science curriculum. Now I am back in the classroom full time, teaching three classes of 6th grade Math/Science core. I hope you find the material I am making available here useful. Thanks for visiting! Send your feedback to Anthony Cody Oakland Unified School District