Hi! I'm Erica and I have a Master's of Education in Secondary Science Education from UCLA and a Bachelor's Degree in History from UC Irvine. I am a Middle School Science Teacher & Department Chair and was a Lead Curriculum Designer that integrated STEM and Next Generation Science Standards into 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Science curricula. For 10 years, I have designed Science assessments that the entire middle school used in order to test students’ knowledge of core ideas in each topic. This mak