09.03.2018 - By Life of the School
Kirstin Milks is a science teacher at Bloomington High School South in Bloomington, Indiana. Kirstin is also a senior fellow of the Knowles Teacher Initiative and is editor-in-chief for outreach of the foundation’s publication Kaleidoscope. Kirstin’s professional development work also includes working with the BSCS/NABT AP Biology Leadership Academy, and the Woodrow Wilson Annenberg Teaching Fellowship. Kirstin has been widely recognized for her teaching excellence through awards including NABT’s Outstanding New Biology Teacher award in 2012, the 2014 Yale Educator Award, the 2017 Alumni Excellence in Education Award from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, and the 2018 NABT Kim Foglia Award. Before entering the classroom, Kirstin was a research scientist having earned her PhD in biochemistry at Stanford. You can follow Kirstin on twitter @DrMilks