ANGELO COLLINS
Executive Director

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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 teaching in United States high schools.

Angelo has spent her professional life engaged in science education. She taught high school science for 15 years before teaching, conducting research and directing education programs at the university level. Angelo was the Director of the Teacher Assessment Project at Stanford University from 1988-1990. From 1993 to 1995 she 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 effort that produced the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1995). Angelo also led the science standards and assessment development for INTASC (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium) of CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers). Immediately prior to joining KSTF, Angelo was an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College from 1996.

Angelo earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Marian University of Fond du Lac, and a Master of Science degree from Michigan State University. She was awarded her PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Angelo’s 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 the American Educational Research Association. From 2005 to 2010, she co-edited the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Angelo is a native of Elmhurst, Illinois.