PAUL KUERBIS
Trustee

Paul Kuerbis joined the KSTF Board of Trustees in 2008, having previously served as a member of KSTF's Science Advisory Committee. Dr. Kuerbis is Professor and Chair of Education at Colorado College and the director of the college's Crown Faculty Center for faculty development and the Colket Student Learning Center.

Dr. Kuerbis has devoted his career to science education and the professional development of science teachers.  He began his career as a secondary (7-12) science teacher implementing inquiry-based curricula in his school while serving as department chair.  His work then in mentoring new teachers led him to his life-long pursuit of excellence in science teacher education.  He founded and directed the Master of Arts in Teaching Secondary Science program that leads to Colorado licensure and the Master of Arts in Teaching Integrated Natural Sciences program for K-12 teachers.

Dr. Kuerbis is the recipient of two Eisenhower grants and several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling over $10 million.  From 2000 to 2008, he was Co-Principal Investigator of NSF's $6.3 million STEP-uP (Science Teacher Enhancement Unifying the Pikes Peak region) grant that impacted over 2700 teachers in five school districts.  He is currently the Director of the Colorado Math Science Partnership grant for middle school science.

Past president of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, Dr. Kuerbis has served on the Governor's Board of Directors for the Colorado Statewide Systemic Initiative in Science from 1994 to 1999.  He served on the editorial board of the Journal of Science Teacher Education for three years.

Dr. Kuerbis received his BS in biology from St. Mary's College and his Master's in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He received his PhD in science education from the University of California, Berkeley.