NSTA members recently elected Eric Pyle, professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to serve as the association’s 2021–2022 president. Pyle will begin serving his three-year term in June as president-elect. 

As he prepares for his new role, Pyle says he will be making “opportunities to reflect on how we can grow and expand our membership reach, particularly ways to collaborate with other science organizations. We need to help frame what meaningful collaboration for the best science education looks like at this time when science in general is under assault.” 

Also elected to serve on the board are Alicia Conerly as Multicultural/Equity in Science Education Division Director, Donna Governor as Preservice Teacher Preparation Division Director, and Cynthia D. Crockett as Research in Science Education Division Director.

NSTA members also elected six district directors to serve on the council. They are Susan Meabh Kelly, District I (Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island); Michelle Ellis, District VI (North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee); Jacob Hayward, District VII (Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi); Brian Klaft, District XII (Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin); Terry White, District XIII (New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas); and Marilyn Webster, District XVIII (Canada).