Dr. Calabrese Barton was selected to receive the NARST 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award (DCRA). This is the highest award that NARST bestows upon its members, which recognizes the superior caliber of their professional accomplishments.

Dr. Calabrese Barton has made significant contributions to science education through research in both school and community settings. Her research embraces authentic “research + practice” work that attends to practitioner and youth voice, and critically engages the goals of equity and justice, resulting in transformed design of learning environments to support justice centered expansive learning outcomes such as critical agency, identity work, and social transformation. Dr. Calabrese Barton’s research on funds of knowledge, discourses and hybrid space informs the effective design of curriculum and instruction towards powerful science learning and learning outcomes; her rightful presence framework calls for science teaching and learning to go beyond inclusion by making present the lives of those made missing by schooling and discipline-specific norms. Dr. Calabrese Barton is a recognized leader in science education as evidenced by her co-editorship of JRST, her service on numerous committees in the US and globally, and her mentorship of many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows who are currently distinguished scholars and leaders in the field. 

Given the high impact of her continuous scholarship to science education policy and practice, outstanding leadership and superb mentoring of graduate students, Dr. Angela Calabrese Barton is a most deserving recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award.