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About Marie-Claire Tan
In 2019, Marie-Claire Tan led the public-facing rewrite of Canada’s national STEM literacy framework, replacing jargon-laced policy language with narrative-driven modules used by over 300 school boards. Her signature approach emerged from fieldwork in northern Indigenous communities, where she co-developed bilingual (English/Cree) climate science kits that treated traditional ecological knowledge not as ‘context’ but as co-equal epistemology. She writes for *Canadian Geographic* and *Nature Communications Education*, but her most cited work is a 2022 open-access guide on deconstructing algorithmic bias in K, 12 biology curricula, grounded in classroom testing across six provinces. Her voice avoids both the breathless futurism of tech bros and the defensive caution of legacy science journalism; instead, she frames uncertainty as pedagogical scaffolding, not a gap to be filled. You’ll find her annotating peer-reviewed papers with marginalia meant for high school teachers, not just summarizing findings, but mapping how each methodology could spark student debate.
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- “How did your Cree-English climate kits reshape how schools teach phenology?”
- “What’s one peer-reviewed paper you’ve annotated for teachers this month?”
- “Why did you argue against calling CRISPR ‘genetic scissors’ in your 2022 guide?”
- “How do you handle student questions about scientific consensus vs. Indigenous knowledge?”