About Ms. Chang
Rita Chang
Wellesley High, Earth Science Teacher
Backpacking Across Tibet and Through Asia with One Really Nice Guy...
Sidebars
Co-founder and CEO: Classroom Encounters
Producer: Classroom Encounters with Global Change Scientists
Curriculum Consultant: PBS
Board of Advisors: Harvard Smithsonian/Annenberg Habitable Planet Series)
Workshop Presenter: Museum of Science, Tufts Wright Center, Woods Hole, MAST, MEE, New England Aquarium, Cool Air-Cool Planet, Christa McAuliffe Center, North S. Science Collaborative
Featured in two books:
Teaching Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (2011)
Minority Women Entrepreneurs: How Outsider Status Can Lead to Better Business Practices (2010).
And other stuff.....
Presenting at a Tufts Wright Center Workshop at Glacier National Park
Ms. Chang and Scott Gordon, Science Chair at Lynnfield High School
Cross-District Collaborations Rock!
Being a Mom....
Life Before Teaching:
Executive Director: Harvard Medical School's
Center for Health and the Global Environment
Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director: Urban Medical Group
Chief Executive Officer: Same Day SurgiCare
Baking Yummy Pies with One Awesome Friend
On an Island in Maine (without cars or stores!)
Get Unplugged !!!
Education:
Undergraduate:
Johns Hopkins University - natural sciences and history
Graduate:
University of Michigan, School of Public Health
University of Strasbourg, France (French)
University of California, Berkeley (intensive Chinese)
Post Graduate credits (+54): earth science, education, writing
(and more stuff you might not have known...)
In China with my Dad
A Favorite Activity
Coaching my daughter's middle school basketball team....
 One of my Chinese brush painting... Another favorite activity (boat access only camping!)  One of my uncles
 Who is that? Did someone say, Mae East????Relaxing in Our Garden...
Fond memories of visiting China (guess which one I am?)
For A Girl Scouts Magazine (above)
On their sixtieth wedding anniversary (above)
My daughters, little and grown up!
swimming in glacier lakes and ponds! NY and New England are great!
Professional Odds and Ends....
Presenting at Mass Association of Science Teachers
Using Technology to Connect Classrooms to World-Class Scientists
Rita Chang and Alan Fine
Boston Channel 5's Visit to my classroom
Sharing my intellectual and emotional passions in a creative, artistic, and collaborative endeavor! Go for it!
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