Except for five years completing a doctorate in ecology and evolution at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Strode has been teaching high school science since 1991. Strode has a master’s in science education from the University of Washington (Seattle), has authored several journal papers on the effects of climate change on bird migration ecology, coauthored the book, “Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)” with Matt Young, and has recently published a Nature of Science paper in The American Biology Teacher. Paul Strode also blogs as Mr. Dr. Science Teacher.