Curriculum Developer and Teacher Educator

Northwestern’s Center for Connected Learning (CCL) and the Net Logo Center, both founded by Professor Uri Wilensky from the Northwestern Schools of Education and Engineering, are looking for a full-time Curriculum Developer and Teacher Educator. If you are passionate about science and the future of science education, this position is ideal for you! Professor Wilensky recently won the prestigious Yidan Prize, largely for his work on Net Logo, and you will be joining a small and dynamic team dedicated to building great tools and curricula for science and science education.

Net Logo is a free award‑winning agent‑based modeling (ABM) software used by educators and scientists around the world for modeling and understanding complex systems across the natural and social sciences. ABM is a way to explore systems by programming many individual “agents” (people, cells, firms, animals, etc.) to follow simple rules. As agents interact, larger patterns—like traffic jams, epidemics, or market cycles—emerge.

Net Logo is the most widely used software for ABM across research and education and has been used to help students learn about topics ranging from chemical reactions to economic systems, anything in which many individual parts interact to produce a larger pattern.

This position will focus on (1) improving and creating educational materials that use Net Logo (and related products) across STEM and social science subjects in middle and high schools, (2) creating and running teacher education workshops around using Net Logo and accompanying curricula, and (3) doing outreach to schools and teachers.