Ph.D.— University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education (Anticipated Graduation, 2025)

M.E.T.— Sposato Graduate School of Education

Masters in Effective Teaching October 2016

A.B.— Princeton University

Bachelors in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Minor in Dance, Minor in Astrobiology; Class of 2014

Undergraduate Thesis: RNA as an Interface to the Environment

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow (2024)

Sandra K. Abell Doctoral Fellow (2023)

President Gutmann Leadership Award (2023)

Kavanagh, S. S., Bernhard, T., & Gibbons, L. K. (2024). ‘Someone else in the universe is trying to teach you’: Teachers’ experiences with platformized instruction. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2337396

Kavanagh, S. S., Farrow, J., Bernhard, T., Guillotte, A., & Dean, C. P. (2024). Practicing inquiry: Investigating how coaches support teachers to lead inquiries in project-based learning classrooms. Teaching and Teacher Education, 144, 104575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104575

Bernhard, T. (2023). Science Teacher Educators’ Visions and Evaluations of Expertise in NGSS-Aligned Instruction Across Institutions. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 34(4), 369–390. https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560X.2022.2105706

Biology Research:

Goldman, A.D., Bernhard, T.M., Dolzhenko, E., & Landweber, L.F. LUCApedia: A database for the study of ancient life. Nucleic Acids Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks1217

Lehman, N., Bernhard, T.M., Larson, B.C., Robinson, A.J.N., & Southgate, C.C.B. Empirical demonstration of environmental sensing in catalytic RNA: Evolution of interpretive behavior at the origins of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0248-2

Bernhard T. Is Classroom Technology Centering Students? A Review of Research on Digitally-Mediated Science Instruction from 2012-2022. NARST Annual Meeting. March 17th, 2024. Denver, CO

del Calvo, A., Guillotte, A., Bernhard T. Digital Pausing: Cultivating Culturally Relevant Pedagogies in Pre-service Social Studies Teacher Education. AERA Annual Meeting. April 12th, 2024. Philadelphia, PA

Bernhard, T., Guillotte, A. and Kavanagh, S. Beyond Individualism: Re-Imagining Teaching Practice as a Collective Act. Quality in Nordic Teaching Conference. May 31st, 2023. Helsinki, Finland.

Bernhard, T. Investigating the Effect of Classroom Facilities and Technology on Teachers’ NGSS Aligned Instruction. NARST Annual Meeting. April 21st, 2023. Chicago, IL

Bernhard, T. Guillotte, A., Kavanagh, S, & Dean, C.P. What’s In a Word? Teachers’ Shifting Conceptualizations Of “Authentic” Project Based Learning. NARST Annual Meeting. April 20th, 2023. Chicago, IL

Kavanagh, S., Bernhard, T., & Gibbons, L. “Someone Else in the Universe is Trying to Teach You”: Teachers’ Experiences with Platformized Instruction. In Symposium: “Platformed Pedagogy: The Work of Teaching in the New Edtech Landscape”. AERA Annual Meeting. April 13th, 2023. Chicago, IL.

Carl, N.M., Malikaarjun, V., Condon, L, Bernhard, T., & Remillard, J. Mentorship Across Contexts: Conceptualizing Varying Roles and Practices of Mentor Teachers. AERA Annual Meeting. April 16th, 2023. Chicago, IL.

Bernhard, T. Guillotte, A., Kavanagh, S, & Dean, C.P. What’s In a Word? Tracking Shifts in Teachers’ Conceptualizations Of “Authentic” Teaching and Learning. AERA Annual Meeting. April 13th, 2023. Chicago, IL.

Bernhard, T., Guillotte, A., & Kavanagh, S. Variable Take-up of Professional Development: How Activity Systems Influence Science Teachers’ Enactment of Project-Based Learning. NARST Annual Meeting. March 28th, 2022. Vancouver, B.C.

Bernhard, T., Guillotte, A, & Kavanagh, S. Variable Take-up of Professional Development: How Activity Systems Influence Teachers’ Enactment of Project-Based Learning. AERA Annual Meeting. April 22nd, 2022. San Diego, CA.

Kavanagh, S., Guillotte, A., Bernhard, T., Farrow, J.M., & Dean, C.P., Impact of Practice-Based Professional Development on Science Teachers’ Disciplinary Literacy Instruction. Literacy Research Association. December 2nd, 2021. Atlanta, GA.

Bernhard, T. The Catalytic Repertoire of Ribozymes and their Role in Early Life. Astrobiology Graduate Conference 2013. Montreal, QC.

Bernhard T. “Time Brokered to Others? Unpacking Teachers’ Digital Lives During Instruction” in Dr. Sarah Kavanagh’s Social Foundations of Education University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2024)

Bernhard, T. “Someone Else in the Universe is Trying to Teach You” in Dr. Ed Brockenbrough’s Social Foundations of Education, University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2023)

Bernhard T., “An Introduction to Platformized Teaching” in Dr. Katie Danielson’s Approaches to Reading Instruction, University of Portland (Spring 2023)

Instructor Managing Collaborative Learning Environments Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program Summer 2024

Co-Instructor Teaching and Learning in Student-Centered Classrooms Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

Teaching Assistant, Elementary and Middle Years Science Methods, University of Pennsylvania Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program Fall 2021 - 2024

Teaching Assistant, Research on Teaching University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Fall 2023

Teaching Assistant, Research on Teacher Education and Learning to Teach, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Spring 2022

Science Instructional Coach, Penn Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program 2020-Present

Science Instructional Coach, Breakthrough Greater Boston 2018-2020

9th Grade Biology, AP Biology, 12th Grade Introductory Statistics, Boston Prep 2016-2020

8th Grade Science, UP Academy Boston 2015-2016

American Educational Research Association

National Association of Research in Science Teaching