Lisa Leonor Grable is the Director of the Learning Technologies Research Center, one of the UNC System's Instructional Technology Specialists. She collaborates with the College of Education team modifying teacher preparation programs to promote the use of instructional technology in education courses and in partner schools that will assure "technology – savvy" teacher education graduates. She also coordinates middle school outreach activities for teachers, including Middle Educators Global Activities, a support group for technology-minded middle school teachers and MEGA Mentors, a professional development program for partnership school systems.

During her teaching career, Lisa has taught

• middle school physical science,
• high school biology, chemistry, and physics,
• university introductory physics,
• materials for preservice science teachers,
• instructional technology for preservice teachers,
• graduate courses in curriculum and instruction,and
• numerous in-service workshops for teachers.

While working on her doctorate she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Trainee in the Instructional Technology for Science Education Program. She is an active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers and currently serves as a member of the Educational Technologies Area Committee. She also regularly participates in the National Middle School Association, North Carolina Science Leadership Association, Society for Information Technology andTeacher Education, and North Carolina Educational Technology Conference.

In her previous position as Coordinator of Computer-Aided Instruction for the Department of Physics at NC State, she collaborated on and supervised the integration of courseware and multimedia activities into the engineering physics course and designed courseware integration assignments for physics classes at the high school and university levels.

Her research interests are technology-enhanced learning, middle school, curriculum integration, learning styles, multicultural diversity in science, and inservice science teachers' adoption of technology.