Miss Mon-Lin (Monica) Ko Annenberg Hall Room 318 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-3871

Monica Ko is a second-year doctoral student in the Learning Sciences program. She came to Northwestern after teaching high school science in Camden, New Jersey, for two years through the Teach for America program. Her two years of teaching in an underserved urban district have motivated her to understand how to close the educational achievement gap in these communities. Currently, she works with Brian Reiser on the IQWST project. She hopes to understand how teachers interpret and utilize the tools of reform-based science (i.e., standards, curriculum and assessments) and, in turn, how this understanding could impact the creation of future policies. Monica graduated from Northwestern in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences with a concentration in neuroscience.

Year		Degree		Institution
2005		B.A. Biological Sciences, Neuroscience		Northwestern University

Science education; teacher thinking and learning; policy sensemaking and implementation; school reform; urban schools; educational inequality.