Award II, the Outstanding Mentor Award, recognizes outstanding accomplishments in contributing to the professional development of pre-service and in-service science teachers and teacher educators. The ASTE Awards Committee selected Dr. Kathryn Scantlebury for this award.

Dr. Kathryn Scantlebury is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University under the direction of Dr. Jane Butler Kahle who provided Kate with an exemplary model of mentoring scholars into the academy, especially women.

Kate is a coeditor of a forthcoming book, entitled Revisioning science education from feminist perspectives: Challenges, choices and careers in which she has coauthored a chapter on cross generational mentoring with Jane Kahle and Judith Meece.  

Kate has provided mentoring support to teachers, graduate students, and faculty to present and publish their research. She continually encourages the preservice and inservice teachers she works with to improve their practice by involving them as mentors in the University of Delaware’s secondary science education program and as researchers focused associated with improving the science teacher education.

                                                                                                                Kathryn  with ASTE president Jon Pedersen

Kate's scholarship, colleagueship, and inclusive approach to research collaboration and her openhanded sponsorship of ongoing participation in professional organizations provide further evidence of her outstanding qualities as a mentor. Kate is a generous and kind person who places considerable time and energy in establishing and maintaining positive rapport with her colleagues, peers and students.

In honor of this recognition, Dr. Scantlebury receives an inscribed plaque and $1,000 from Frey Scientific.  Frey Scientific, a subsidiary of Delta Education, is the continuing sponsor of our Award II.