Tara Goodhue teaches science at Lowell, Massachusetts’ Lowell High School, where she is also head of the science department. She shows her students that nature is all around us, even in an urban setting, and involves them in scientific work through Harvard Forest, Mass Audubon, the National Park Service and other entities. Goodhue is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a curriculum design and science communication consultant with Fort Hill Consulting in New Hampshire and a mentor teacher with the Harvard Forest Schoolyard Ecology program. She is also a member of the Lowell Nature Everywhere Team with the Children and Nature Network.

Before teaching at Lowell High, Goodhue worked at Greater Lowell Technical High School in Tyngsboro for 14 years. Goodhue holds a Doctor of Education in leadership in schools with a STEM concentration and a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction in secondary education, both from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a Bachelor of Arts in biology with a minor in music performance from Clark University. In 2020, the National Association of Biology Teachers named her Environmental Educator of the Year.

When Goodhue isn’t teaching science, she enjoys hiking or knitting.