Lori A. Goodson - Kansas Hub, Manhattan, KS

Lori A. Goodson, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction with the College of Education at Kansas State University, is Assistant Director of the Rural Education Center. She also is the university coordinator for the STEM Summer Institute and the Virtual Summer STEAM Academy. A National Board Certified educator with a background in middle school and high school teaching, she has published articles and presented at the state, national, and international level and was co-editor of a national journal. Goodson is a product of a small rural school district in Missouri, and was a newspaper editor in Missouri, Kansas, and North Carolina for two decades. Her research interests include rural education, literacy at the secondary level, and middle school education.