Darlyne de Haan

Darlyne de Haan is an educator, author, and MLL STEM curriculum and instruction specialist with more than twenty years of experience in STEM and multilingual education. She focuses on equitable learning for multilingual learners (MLLs) and students from underrepresented backgrounds, including African American, Latino, low‑income, and English language learner populations. In 2000, she founded Mad About Science Inc., a nonprofit organization aimed at transforming science education across New Jersey.

De Haan is the author of STEM Is for Everyone: Strategies for Engaging Multilingual Learners in the K–12 Classroom, published by Solution Tree in 2024. In this book, she presents interactive methods, culturally responsive teaching approaches, and claim‑evidence‑reasoning strategies to help STEM educators support multilingual learners and address inequities in the STEM pipeline. Her work includes training teachers across the United States on effective STEM instruction for MLLs, and in 2024 she served as a keynote speaker at an international conference in Saudi Arabia on STEM education for English language learners.