Tim Goodwin is an associate professor of education at Bemidji State University, teaching in their online/hybrid undergraduate and graduate programs. His research and writing are in the areas of pedagogy, science education, and ecological identity/environmental education. He wrote Consider, Construct, Confirm: A New Framework for Teaching and Learning, which provides an easy-to-use framework for implementing thematic, inquiry-based teaching methods and is recommended for students learning to become teachers to experienced teachers looking to shift to teaching and learning methods more closely aligned to constructivist learning theory.