Prior to joining Brown University’s Education Department, Dan Bisaccio was hired as the Math/ Science/ Technology Division Head charged to develop and implement a program to meet the needs of all students for the 21st Century at Souhegan High School (Amherst New Hampshire). During Dan’s tenure at SHS the school has received a number of state and national awards for offering public school students’ authentic research and interdisciplinary opportunities in academic areas as well for developing a science program that has 90% of all students graduating with at least 4 years of science credits.
At SHS, Dan has taught advanced biology, tropical ecology, and a Conservation Biology & Literature senior seminar as well as developing and teaching ongoing professional development workshops for teachers and interns at SHS. Dan also leads a number of professional institutes for science teachers around the nation annually.
His teaching methodology and research has been highlighted in several books, on National Public Radio, and on a CBS TV special focused on public education. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at Keene State College where he taught geology and continues at Northeastern University teaching a tropical terrestrial ecology course at the Moorea, South Pacific Gump Field Station. Dan continues to serve on the Smithsonian Institution’s Caribbean Biodiversity Research Steering Committee.
Additionally, his work has recently been recognized by the United Nations Environmental Program where he is a member of their international biological diversity education outreach committee and will be presenting his HabitatNet outreach program at the United Nations Second Conference on Biological Diversity this May, 2008 in Bonn, Germany. He has ongoing tropical biological diversity research and education outreach projects supported by the University of California / Riverside in Quintana Roo, Mexico and with Northeastern University (Boston, MA) – Moorea, French Polynesia. Dan has been the recipient of many national, state, regional teaching awards as well as authoring several articles on educational pedagogy and practice.
