Megan Taylor

Dr. Megan W. Taylor comes to the Exploratorium from Trellis Education, which she founded in 2015 to ensure students in California public schools have exceptional math and science teachers who share critical identities with them. Megan has taught teachers and students for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher. She earned an MA and a PhD in mathematics education from Stanford University, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Graduate School of Education before proudly joining the California State University system as faculty in the Sonoma State School of Education.

Education

• Ph.D Stanford University (2007 — 2010)
• M.A Stanford University (2001 — 2002)
• B.S. University of California, Davis (1997 — 2001)
• Palo Alto High School (1993 — 1997)

Companies

• Director, Teacher Institute Exploratorium (2022)
• Founder & CEO Trellis Education (2015 — 2021)
• Associate Director (Special Projects) Stanford University (2015 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor, Mathematics Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education Sonoma State University (2012 — 2016)
• 2013 STaR Fellow Service, Teaching and Research Fellowship (2013 — 2014)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics Education Harvard Graduate School of Education (2010 — 2012)
• District Algebra Coordinator San Mateo Union High School District (2007 — 2010)
• Math Teacher Summit Preparatory Charter High School (2004 — 2010)
• Participant/Staff Park City Mathematics Institute (2003 — 2006)