Jessica Thompson

About

Jessica Thompson is a professor in the Elementary Teacher Education Program (ELTEP) at the University of Washington's College of Education. Her research, teaching, and service are grounded in research-practice partnerships with teachers and school districts focused on educational justice in K-12 science. She develops understanding of critical and cultural approaches to ambitious science teaching and learning through collaborations with science and multilingual teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders. Dr. Thompson has a background in developing after-school programs that support girls who are racially and linguistically minoritized in schools by exploring their intersectional identities and engagement in scientific inquiry. She has extensive experience teaching high school and middle school science, as well as drop-out prevention courses, in North Carolina and Washington State. Her teaching includes secondary and elementary science methods courses and Culturally Responsive Math and Science Teaching at UW. Her current projects aim to prepare teachers to facilitate asset-based science and literacy discourse in multilingual elementary classrooms and to build professional capital for equitable science teaching through district-wide research-practice partnerships. Dr. Thompson's contributions include developing online tools for novice science teachers, supporting mentor teachers, and fostering communities of practice that promote ambitious and equitable science…

Research topics

• Cancer research
• Genetics
• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Immunology
• Oncology
• Gastroenterology
• Biology

Selected publications

• Ambitious Science Teaching

  2018-04-03 · 310 citations

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• Neoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells in human melanoma have diverse differentiation states and correlate with CD8+ T cell, macrophage, and B cell function

  Cancer Cell · 2022 · 137 citations

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• Designing, launching, and implementing high quality learning opportunities for students that advance scientific thinking

  Journal of Research in Science Teaching · 2016-05-06 · 124 citations

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  Abstract Instructional tasks are key features of classroom practice, but little is known about how different components of tasks—such as selecting or designing tasks for a lesson, launching, and implementing them with students—shape the conditions for students’ intellectual engagement in science classrooms. Employing a qualitative multiple case study approach, we analyzed 57 science lessons taught by 19 first‐year teachers. We examined the potential for students’ intellectual work built into the…

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• Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Use in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review

  Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network · 2022 · 76 citations

  Chronic immunosuppression in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) leads to an increased risk of a wide variety of cancers. Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy is indicated for many of these; however, the risks and benefits of ICI use in the SOTR population have not been well characterized. We performed a systematic literature review identifying 119 reported cases of ICI use among SOTRs. Treatments used included PD-1 inhibition (75.6%), CTLA-4 inhibition (12.6%), PD-L1 inhibition (1.7%…

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• Toward a practice‐based theory for how professional learning communities engage in the improvement of tools and practices for scientific modeling

  Science Education · 2019-08-30 · 32 citations

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  Abstract To organize for the improvement of science instruction teachers need opportunities to collaboratively learn from practice, in practice, and to engage in the revision of classroom tools. In this paper, we examine how a professional learning community (PLC), comprised of middle school teachers and researchers, worked on the improvement of Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) practices and developed instructional practices and tools supporting model‐based inquiry. This paper focuses on the fir…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant M01RR000037

  NIH · $22.1M · 2009

• NIH Grant K08CA001030

  NIH · $188k · 1988

• NIH Grant R21CA091553

  NIH · $617k · 2003

Frequent coauthors

• Michael B. Atkins

  Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

  97 shared

• Shailender Bhatia

  University of Washington

  78 shared

• Jeffrey S. Weber

  74 shared

• Scott S. Tykodi

  Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  68 shared

• F. Stephen Hodi

  59 shared

• Douglas S. Reintgen

  University of South Florida

  51 shared

• Howard L. Kaufman

  Akebia Therapeutics (United States)

  50 shared

• Madusha Goonewardena

  Addenbrooke's Hospital

  49 shared

Education

• PhD

  University of Washington

  2006

Awards & honors

• dissertation fellowship from the American Association of Uni…
• Selma Greenberg Dissertation Award

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