Ph.D.— University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, 2025 Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education

M.E.T.— Sposato Graduate School of Education, 2016 Masters in Effective Teaching

A.B.— Princeton University, 2014 Bachelors in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Minor in Dance, Minor in Astrobiology

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow (2024)

Sandra K. Abell Doctoral Fellow (2023)

President Gutmann Leadership Award (2023)

Bernhard, T. (2026) Reasoning Together or Clicking Through? Analyzing Patterns of Group Science Talk On and Off Individualized Computers. Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.70095.

Bernhard, T. (In Press) The (In)Visibility of Social Interactions in the Digital Classroom: A Review of Research on Digitally-Mediated K-12 Science Instruction in the U.S. from 2012-2022. Review of Educational Research.

Shah, N., Stroupe, D., Yadav, A., Bernhard, T., Logan, C., Dyer, E. B., He, P., Krist, C., & Li, T. (2026). Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism. Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X261466234

Kavanagh, S. S., Bernhard, T., & Guillotte, A. (2026). Is Teaching Practice an Activity That Individuals Can Enact? The Case of Project Based Learning. Cognition and Instruction, 44(2), 83–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2025.2576495

Kavanagh, S. S., Bernhard, T., & Gibbons, L. K. (2025). ‘Someone else in the universe is trying to teach you’: Teachers’ experiences with platformized instruction. Learning, Media and Technology, 50(2), 112–128. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2337396

Bernhard, T. (2023). Science Teacher Educators’ Visions and Evaluations of Expertise in NGSS-Aligned Instruction Across Institutions. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 34(4), 369–390. https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560X.2022.2105706

Esboldt, J. & Bernhard, T. Mediating Mentoring: Examining digital accountability within new teacher mentoring dialogue. International Scoiety of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting. June 16th, 2026. Irvine, CA.

Bernhard, T. The Omnipresence of Administrative Data Work: Case Studies of U.S. Teachers’ Digital Platform Labor During Instruction. The European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies (ECCES) June 19th, 2025. Zurich, Switzerland.

Shah, N., Stroupe, D., Bernhard, T., Krist, C., Logan, C., Li, T. ,Yadav, A., AI and Educational Justice: A Critical Conversation. AERA 2025 Presidential Session. AERA Annual Meeting. April 23rd, 2025. Denver, CO

Bernhard, T. Portraits of Teacher’s Screen Time During Instruction. AERA Annual Meeting. April 25th, 2025. Denver, CO

Condon, L., Sayuj, R., Bernhard, T., and Remillard, J. What Mentors’ Practices Reveal about How They Understand the Work of Mentoring. AERA Annual Meeting. April 24th, 2025. Denver, CO

Bernhard T. Is Classroom Technology Centering Students? A Review of Research on Digitally-Mediated Science Instruction from 2012-2022. NARST Annual Meeting. March 17th, 2024. Denver, CO

Instructor Managing Collaborative Learning Environments Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program Summer 2024-2026

Teaching Assistant, Science Methods (Elementary and Middle Years), University of Pennsylvania Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program Fall 2021 - 2024

Teaching Assistant, Research on Teaching University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Fall 2023

Science Instructional Coach, Penn Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program 2020-2025

Science Instructional Coach, Breakthrough Greater Boston 2018-2020

9th Grade Biology, AP Biology, 12th Grade Introductory Statistics, Boston Prep 2016-2020

8th Grade Science, UP Academy Boston 2015-2016

Service:

Bargaining Committee Member, Research Associates and Postdocs United at Penn (RAPUP-UAW). 2025-Present.

Organizing Committee Member and Field Coordinator, Graduate Employees Together at the University of Pennsylvania (GETUP-UAW). 2020-2025.

Professional Organisations:

American Educational Research Association

National Association of Research in Science Teaching