Ph.D. student Dilara Kara-Zorluoglu (Teaching and Learning) presented a study titled “Enacting Agency: An Ecological Perspective on Teachers’ Experiences of an Integrated Curriculum” in a paper session on Developing Teacher Agency through Transformative Professional Learning at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) 2026 Annual Conference in Seattle. The qualitative case study examines how elementary science teachers enact agency when implementing an integrated curriculum using a scaffolded approach (from adopt to adapt).

This study was conducted under the supervision of Hasan Deniz (Teaching and Learning), the principal investigator of the NSF funded project #2122402, with collaboration of Ezgi Yesilyurt, Erdogan Kaya, Refika Turgut, and Elif Adibelli-Sahin.