Okhee Lee is a professor in the School of Education, University of Miami, Florida. Her research areas include science education, language and culture, and teacher education. She was awarded a 1993-95 National Academy of Education Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship. She was a 1996-97 fellow at the National Institute for Science Education, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has directed research and teacher training projects funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Spencer Foundation, and the Florida Department of Education. One of her current research projects implements instructional interventions to promote science learning and language development for elementary students from diverse languages and cultures. She serves on editorial boards for major education research journals as well as advisory boards for science education reform projects. Her research has appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Handbook of Research on teacher education (1996, 2nd ed.).