{"id":1981,"date":"2026-03-11T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:45:02","slug":"public-and-professional-writing-minor-kira-paul-publishes-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/2026\/03\/11\/public-and-professional-writing-minor-kira-paul-publishes-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Public and Professional Writing Minor Kira Paul Publishes Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public and Professional Writing minor, Kira Paul, published the op-ed, &#8220;The STEM Teacher Pipeline is Waning. We Can Rebuild It&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njspotlightnews.org\/2026\/03\/op-ed-the-stem-teachers-pipeline-is-waning-we-can-rebuild-it\/\"><em>NJ Spotlight<\/em><\/a>. Kira participated in our first challenge-based &#8220;Collaboration and Design&#8221; course co-taught by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~mccarthyse\">Se\u00e1n McCarthy<\/a> (Writing Studies) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~kights\">Scott Kight<\/a> (Biology), and she&#8217;s currently completing an independent study that looks at science and storytelling with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~martinel\">Liz Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kira Paul is a Physics major with minors in Mathematics and Public and Professional Writing at Â鶹´«Ã½ÔÚÏß. She is part of the university\u2019s teacher education program and the Science Teaching Program, where her work sits at the intersection of science education, community building, and public writing, with a focus on strengthening New Jersey\u2019s STEM teacher pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public and Professional Writing minor, Kira Paul, published the op-ed, &#8220;The STEM Teacher Pipeline is Waning. We Can Rebuild It&#8221; in NJ Spotlight. Kira participated in our first challenge-based &#8220;Collaboration and Design&#8221; course co-taught by Se\u00e1n McCarthy (Writing Studies) and Scott Kight (Biology), and she&#8217;s currently completing an independent study that looks at science and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlights","category-writing-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}