Sharon Lynch is a professor of curriculum and instruction, specializing in science education, at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development of The George Washington University. She works with preservice and inservice science teachers in public schools in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. She has taught science in grades 7-12. Dr. Lynch was Associate Director of The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth from 1983-87. She lived in Poland from 1987-90, where she had a Senior Fulbright Fellowship. Upon her return from abroad, she turned her research focus to issues of equity and science education reform. She has worked with AAAS Project 2061 as co-chair of its Equity Blueprint texts. She is the author of Equity and Science Education Reform (2000), available through Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. She is also an active member of professional organizations such as AERA, NARST, and AETS. She was on sabbatical during the 2003-04 academic year, focusing her study on SCALE-uP, a collaborative science research project between George Washington University and Montgomery County Public Schools funded through the Interagency Research Initiative (IERI) and administered by the National Science Foundation. She holds a B.S. in Ed. in Biology and Science Education, a M.S. in Biology, and has received her Ph.D. in Education from Wayne State University.