New Places: Stories about being somewhere new
b'This week we present two stories about being the new one in a new place.\\nPart 1: After moving to a brand-new school in the seventh grade, Edith Gonzalez struggles to maintain her straight-A status with a new, scary biology teacher.\\nPart 2: When social scientist Meltem Alemdar leaves her home in Turkey to pursue her education in the US, she struggles to find her identity.\\nEdith Gonzalez is a native Nuyorican with four graduate degrees in various sub-disciplines of anthropology. By day, she is an historical\\xa0 archaeologist studying bio-prospecting in the 18th-century English-speaking Caribbean. By night, she has a "slight" obsession with Lord of the Rings, and the dance intersection of late 70\'s disco and early 80\'s punk.\\xa0 She is a veteran of MOTH and Take Two Storytelling\\xa0 (among others). As a two-time Smut Slam champion, she also enjoys telling dirty stories to a room full of strangers.\\xa0 \\n\\nMeltem Alemdar is a social scientist and native of Ankara, Turkey. She came to Atlanta in 2000 to attend Georgia Tech\'s Language Institute,\\xa0 then decided to pursue a Master\'s, and then a doctoral degree.\\xa0 Dr. Alemdar earned her PhD in Education Policy, with a concentration in\\xa0 Research, Measurement, and Statistics, at Georgia State University in 2009. She is Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at Georgia\\xa0 Institute of Technology\\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science,\\xa0 Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC). Her research focuses on improving\\xa0 K-12 STEM education through research on curriculum development, teacher\\xa0 education, and student learning in integrated STEM environments. Dr. Alemdar has led numerous NSF-funded research projects that spans on project-based learning, STEM integration, engineering education, and\\xa0 social network analysis. She is passionate about improving K-12 public\\xa0 education system through her research.\\xa0 \\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'