Clayton Glasgow (he/him) is a student at the University of Notre Dame, where he is obtaining his M. Ed. in science education. He plans to pursue a PhD in restoration ecology. For his M.Ed., he is currently serving as a high school science teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, where he teaches 9th grade integrated science, 10th grade biology, and 11th/12th grade environmental science. “Teaching at an under-resourced urban high school in Cleveland, I witness daily the immense gap that exists between the important science being done all over the world and the vulnerable communities that often have the most to gain if proper attention is paid to the results,” he writes. “I also witness daily the incredible enthusiasm and determination students demonstrate when they start to make sense of these big issues during class and begin to understand that solutions exist, needing only to be implemented.”
For Clayton’s outreach project, he wrote an incredible op-ed entitled “What the orangutan in Euclid Creek says about our relationship with nature” in Cleaveland’s main newspaper, The Plain Dealer. The piece explores the importance of engaging with our local species. But that’s not all — Clayton also interviewed author (and YVoS expert presenter!) David George Haskell on a Big Biology podcast about his new book “How Flowers Made Our World.”
You can read Clayton’s finished piece for the Plain dealer HERE, and the podcast episode will be released soon. And stay tuned — Clayton has a few more projects up his sleeve as well!
