Previously, Charlie worked on the EDC K–12 Science Curriculum Dissemination Center initiative. In this capacity, he presented workshops on inquiry teaching and the implementation of research-based instructional materials. He also participated in a year-long collaboration with a local independent school, the Atrium School, to develop a coherent, inquiry-based preK–6 science program and to train Atrium teachers to use inquiry science materials well.

Charlie came to EDC from TERC, in Cambridge, Mass., where he studied and developed Web-based curricula that allow widely dispersed middle and high school students to use the Internet to collaborate and share data–with each other and with adult scientists—on “real science” investigations. In the mid-1990s, he was director of Kids’ Institutes for Discovery Inc., a nonprofit organization that offered informal science activities for children and professional development training for teachers throughout eastern New England.

In addition, Charlie taught elementary and middle school for 10 years, at independent schools in the Boston area and at a Waldorf (Steiner)-inspired school in Blue Hill, Maine. He holds a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).