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Sarah Witham Bednarz
Sarah Witham Bednarz is a professor of geography and president of the American Association of Geographers. Bednarz was principal investigator on two major curriculum and educational research projects, Mission Geography (NASA) and Advancing Geospatial Skills in Geography and Spatial Sciences (AGSSS); coauthored the national geography standards Geography for Life (1994 and 2012); participated in the National Research Council Learning to Think Spatially project; and helped to develop the National Assessment of Educational Performance framework in geography. Most recently she co-chaired the Geography Education Research Committee of the 21st Century Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education Project. She has long been interested in the intersection of teaching and learning geospatial technologies and spatial and geographic thinking.