As High School Science Professional Development Facilitator with WestEd's Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) project, Sarah Hamilton develops science curricula that scaffolds learning for English language learners.

Hamilton's work with QTEL takes her to Austin, Texas and San Diego, California where she provides individual coaching for science teachers and conducts professional development seminars. Hamilton equips educators with the knowledge and practical skills to both teach their science subject matter and facilitate English language literacy and understanding.

Prior to joining WestEd, Hamilton was a teacher and a leadership team member at a KIPP charter school in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. There, she engaged students of varying levels of literacy and developed curricula that built their knowledge of a particular subject in tandem with their mastery of the English language.

As a middle school science and Spanish teacher in Los Angeles, Hamilton created lessons that integrated multiple modalities of learning in order to maximize student engagement.

While pursuing a master's degree at Harvard University, Hamilton taught science to middle school girls. She subsequently developed a science curriculum for middle school students, which she presented at Harvard's Student Research Conference.

Hamilton received a BS in psychological biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MEd in mind, brain, & education from Harvard University, where she studied the developmental brain and the neurological mechanisms of learning.