{"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 ÌÇÐÄvlog. 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}]}}