Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Maryland, Ph.D. Teaching and Learning, Policy, and Leadership-Mathematics and Science Education, 2017.
University of Virginia, Master of Teaching, secondary science, 2007.
University of Virginia, double major Bachelor’s of Arts, physics, sculpture, 2004. Art history minor.
Selected publications
Bosman, L., Shirey, K., & Fernhaber, S. (2026). Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering Students through a Perspective-Taking Approach. In Springer Texts in Education. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15123-0
Bosman, L., & Shirey, K., & Samuel, A. (2025, June). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Accelerator: A Professional Development Program for Engineering Faculty. Paper presented at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Smith, M., Dippre, J., Wooley, A., Chamberlain, L., Shirey, K., Levy, E., Mathis, C., & Daane, A. (2024, July 10-11). Decolonizing physics curricula: A case study about a kinematics lesson. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2024.pr.Smith
Lucas, T., Kotla, B., Shirey, K., & Bosman, L. (2024, June). Motivating Students to Engage, Collaborate, and Persist with Classroom Podcast Creation. Paper presented at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
Bosman, L., Shirey, K., Duval-Couetil, N., & Dutta, R. (2024, June). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Accelerator Program: Overview, Results, and Lessons Learned. Paper presented at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
Carberry, A. R., Klein-Gardner, S. S., Lottero-Perdue, P. S., & Shirey, K. L. (2023). Pre-college engineering education teacher preparation. In A. Johri (Ed.), International Handbook of Engineering Education Research (pp. 241-262). Routledge, London, UK. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287483-15
Bosman, L. and Shirey, K. Bioengineering as a Vehicle to Increase the Entrepreneurial Mindset. In S. Kaya-Capocci and E. Peters-Burton (Eds.), Integrated Science 15, Enhancing Entrepreneurial Mindsets Through STEM Education (pp.351-382). Springer. ISBN: 978-3-031-17815-3 (Link)
Shirey, K., & Bosman, L. (2022, August), Using Bio-Inspired Design and STEAM to Teach the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Engineers Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. (Link)
Murzi, H., & Shirey, K., & Zarske, M., & Litzler, E., & London, J. (2022, August), WIP: ASEE Year of Impact on Racial Equity: P-12 Parents and Guardians Engagement Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. (Link)
Shirey, K. (2021) A Student Groupwork Spectrum for Engineering Design Collaboration. Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. Link
Shirey, K. and Canales, C. (2020) Transformative Professional Development Through Integrated STEM. Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives, Fall 2020. Link
Shirey, K. (2020) An Integrated Three-year High School STEM Curriculum Based on the Global Grand Challenges (Resource Exchange). In Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, June 2020. PDF
Shirey, K. and Wild, A. (2020) Professional Learning with Teacher Communities the Knowles Way. American Physics Society’s Forum on Education Spring 2020 Newsletter: 11-12. PDF
Shirey, K. & Perry, A. (2019) How Our Ideals Influence Whom We Teach. Knowles Teacher Initiative blog post.
Shirey, K. (2018) Breaking the Silos of Discipline for Integrated Student Learning: A Global STEM Course’s Curriculum Development[J]. Engineering, 2018, 4 (2): 170-174. Link
Shirey, K. (2017) Don’t panic: Fostering student engagement with engineering design. The Source AdvancED. Link
Shirey, K. (2017) “How do we make this happen?” Teacher challenges and productive resources for integrating engineering design into high-school physics (Doctoral dissertation). Link
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner and Principal Consultant, eduKatey, LLC, Washington, DC (2020-present)
Integrated STEM and STEAM curriculum design, STEM teacher professional development design and facilitation, and assessment and evaluation consultant. Research proposals developed and submitted to NASA, NSF, US Department of Defense, KEEN, ASU, and UL.
Select clients: Knowles Teacher Initiative, Fairfax County Public Schools, Minneapolis Public Schools, Cobb County Public Schools, World Learning Inc., STEM Hub Cairo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, McGill University, Lingua Innovative Education (Kyrgyzstan), Engineering for Us All (e4usa), Advanced Learning Partnerships (ALP), ULRI.
Knowles Academy Program Officer, Knowles Teacher Initiative, Moorestown, NJ (2016-2020)
Professional development designer, trainer and facilitator; curriculum planning and coordination; instructional coach and mentor.
Physics Teacher, Washington-Liberty High School, Arlington, VA (2007-2012)
IB, standard, and conceptual-level Physics class instruction.
Selected SERVICE
Chair, ASEE Commission on Pre-K to 12 Engineering Education (CP12) (2023-2026)
Steering Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering, Pathways into Engineering Steering Committee (2025-present)
Chair, ARISE Board, Summit County, Colorado (2024-present)
Engineering Societies Education Roundtable Member (2026-present)
Program Chair, Pre-College Engineering Education (PCEE) Division American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) (2020-2021)
Antarctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) Education Committee (2017-2020)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Pre-College Engineering Education (PCEE) Division Executive Committee and immediate past Program Chair (2019-2023)
Washington, DC Ward 1 Education Committee Member (2018-2023).
Selected Honors & REcognition
2021 Meritorious Service Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)
2021 Northern Virginia Leadership “40 Under 40” Awardee