Ryan Palmer earned a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a B.A. in Spanish before discovering that her true passion is teaching language. She now teaches Spanish Language Arts at a dual-language middle school in Albuquerque and loves bringing STEM into her classroom. 
	Ryan is a Level II educator with dual-licensure in Special Education and Secondary Education. She is endorsed in Science, Bilingual Education, TESOL, and Modern and Classical Languages. She is passionate about using scaffolding, sheltering, and differentiation to make high academic achievement accessible to all students, especially emergent bilingual students and students with disabilities. She uses OCDE Project GLAD and AVID strategies to help all of her students experience success with rigorous academic content. 
	In the last year, Ryan has enjoyed helping to run a virtual STEM summer camp for K-9 students, sponsoring two middle school and three high school teams for the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge, and starting an after-school technology club at her middle school. She loves using student engagement and language learning strategies to help all students understand computer science.

STEAM - L Camp 2021