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Biography
Dr. Krist was an Assistant Professor of science education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining the Stanford faculty. Her work focuses on supporting meaningful student participation in science practices, teacher professional learning, and designing for more humanizing forms of science learning. Her current projects focus on bringing together various configurations of community organizations, teachers, families, and scientists to develop science learning experiences that promote communities’ visions for thriving. She received her PhD in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University in 2016 and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Maryland from 2016-2017. Her early career work has been supported by an NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and was recently recognized with NARST’s Early Career Research Award.
Other titles
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
CTE
CTE: Science Education
Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD)
(MA) STEP
Research interests
Curriculum and Instruction | Equity in Education | Professional Development | Science Education | Teachers and Teaching
Recent publications
Ko, M.-L. M., Krist, C., Hug, B., Wingert, K., Suarez, E., Lauren, L. H., … Light, E. (2024). EMPOWER: Enacting Materials to Promote Ownership, Engagement, and Relevance. International Conference on the Learning Sciences ..., 2024, 2303–2304.
Krist, C. (S. (2024). Striving for Relationality: Teacher Responsiveness to Relational Cues When Eliciting Students' Science Ideas. COGNITION AND INSTRUCTION, 42(2), 207–242.
Parr, E. D., Dyer, E. B., Machaka, N., & Krist, C. (2023). Understanding Joint Exploration: the Epistemic Positioning Underlying Collaborative Activity in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, 23(3), 479–496.
