Lee Meadows, Ph.D., is a science educator based in Birmingham, Alabama. He guided the launch of Alabama STEM Council as its first Executive Director, focusing the work on building the STEM education system Alabama needs for a thriving workforce. Before that he worked as professor in the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, guiding science teachers to improve their practice especially with better skills for inquiry and implementing science and engineering practices. He also led the implementation of UABTeach, Alabama’s first UTeach site.
A teacher at heart, he has taught high school chemistry, physics, and physical science; college chemistry; and many teacher education courses, especially science teaching methods. He has written and spoken across his career on the teaching of evolution in the Deep South and is the author of The Missing Link: An Inquiry Based Approach for Teaching Evolution to All Students and co-author of Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond.
