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.
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.
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, Current Clients, and Pending Clients)
Dr. Day-Miller’s client list includes South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium; Center for Science Education, University of South Carolina; Columbia College; The National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences; Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP), Office Of Education (OED), and Ocean Exploration and Research (OER); and James Madison University (JMU), Center for Assessment and Research Studies (CARS), and Science Content Teaching Academy (CTA).
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Janice O. Easton, M.S. has over 15 years of experience in designing, facilitating, and evaluating educational materials and programs for educators. She holds two masters degrees with an emphasis in environmental education program evaluation. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Florida identifying indicators of quality Cooperative Extension programming.
As an independent consultant, Ms. Easton teaches program evaluation to a wide range of non-formal environmental educators through an online course she developed for the EPA’s Environmental Education Training Partnership (EETAP). Since its launch in 2004, Ms. Easton continues to update the course on a regular basis and currently serves as an instructor.
Ms. Easton has co-facilitated a number of professional development workshops with the purpose of building the evaluation capacity of education and outreach staff in the U.S. Forest Service, NOAA, USFWS and various state EE organizations.
Ms. Easton has conducted a number of evaluation projects such as Project FIRST for the Archbold Biological Station (NSF Grant), Afterschool Enrichment Project (USDA Grant), and Florida Project Learning Tree (UF funded) as well as developed a number of environmental education curricula including the service-learning curriculum, Give Forests a Hand (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FR117), 4-H Plant Connections (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4H194), Trees from the Ground Up, and a state-wide vocational Environmental Horticulture curriculum.
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