KSTF Staff
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Angelo Collins, PhD
Executive Director
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
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Dr. Angelo Collins was appointed the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation’s first Executive Director in 2000. Under her leadership, the Foundation has become a leading champion of improving the quality of mathematics and science education through their signature program, the KSTF Teaching Fellowships as well as the KSTF Young Scholars Research Fellowships and the Knowles Conference Series.
Upon joining the Foundation, Dr. Collins spent a full year traveling throughout the United States meeting with experts and researchers in science and mathematics education to learn how to best cultivate and support high school teachers in these fields. Her findings were the impetus behind creating the KSTF Teaching Fellowships program, which started with four Science Teaching Fellows and has grown to include 125 Teaching Fellows in the fields of mathematics and science education across all fifty states.
Dr. Collins has spent her entire professional life engaged in science education. She taught high school science for 15 years before teaching and directing education programs at the university level. Dr. Collins was the Director of the Teacher Assessment Project at Stanford University from 1988-1990 and led the Science FEAT (Science for Early Adolescence Teachers) project at Florida State University from 1992 to 1996. During this time she also served as Director of the National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council in Washington, DC, where she led the committee that produced the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1995). Prior to joining KSTF, Dr. Collins was an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College from 1996 until June 2000.
Dr. Collins served as Director of the INTASC (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium) Science Standards Setting and Portfolio Development Projects from 1995 to 2001. She has served on numerous national and state committees that address issues in science education. Dr. Collins has authored scores of books, monographs and articles in respected journals and has served on the editorial boards of numerous publications, including Science Education and the Journal of Science Teacher Education. She is currently the Co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
Dr. Collins earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Marian College of Fond du Lac, and a Master of Science degree from Michigan State University. She was awarded her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Collins’ awards include the Alumni Achievement Award from the College of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Edgewood College. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a visiting Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Collins is a native of Chicago, Illinois.
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