About Us
Elizabeth A. Day-Miller, Ph.D.
Defining our firm
BridgeWater Education Consulting, LLC (BWEC) is a full-service science education project development and evaluation firm. It is a woman-owned, small business located in Bridgewater, VA.
Founder, Elizabeth Anne Day-Miller, PhD. has more than 20 years of experience designing and conducting science education programs and professional development, and more than a decade evaluating projects and programs. She has worked with a wide variety of institutions including universities and colleges, and state and federal government agencies and programs.
Although our staff is small, BWEC frequently works with other consultants with a wide range of capabilities. We can draw from these contacts to craft a team that meets the needs any client. We have small and large projects that last from a few weeks to several years. BWEC is also interested in partnering with other companies (small and large) to meet customer needs. For federal clients, we anticipate receiving a GSA schedule by the beginning of 2011.
We demonstrate our commitment to the science education community by sharing our knowledge and expertise with other professionals and the broader science education community through membership in professional organizations, making presentations at professional conferences, conducting workshops, and publishing reports, journal articles, and curriculums.
Principal
 Elizabeth A. Day-Miller, Ph.D. provides a range of knowledge and skills valuable to many professional development and evaluation projects. Her education background includes degrees in marine science and marine science education. She has conducted marine science research on mud crab substrate preferences and marine education research focused on improving undergraduate marine science education instruction.
Professionally, Dr. Day-Miller has over nine years of experience working as an educator at the national level (NSF and NOAA). Responsible for conducting reviews of education grant proposals, she has read hundreds of grant proposals and participated in and served on numerous federal and state grant proposal review panels.
Dr. Day-Miller also has worked for more than 20 years designing and conducting professional development workshops for various adult audiences. In addition, she has over 12 years of experience conducting evaluation of education programs. Currently she is evaluating two Federal education projects and has submitted proposals to conduct evaluation on several more.
(See Project Descriptions and Current Clients)
Dr. Day-Miller’s client list includes South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium; Center for Science Education, University of South Carolina; Columbia College; Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office Of Education (OED), and Ocean Exploration and Research (OER); Gettysburg College; College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS); Queen Anne’s County Public Schools (QACPS); Savannah State University (SSU); James Madison University (JMU), Department of Education and Department of Integrated Science and Technology; and the Paleontological Research Institute and its Museum of the earth.
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