Tom Keller
Co-director, Reach Center
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Biography
Tom Keller is a Co-director with the Reach Center, focusing on educational polices and practices that are most effective in realizing the goals of the Center. He is taking the lead on data and evaluation of the project and supporting efforts in school-based and out of school opportunities, educator development, and system coherence.
In addition, he is a senior program officer with Board on Science Education at the National Research Council (NRC), where he co-directed the study committee that wrote the Framework for K-12 Science Education. He directed the Oversight Group that developed Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments. Prior to working at the NRC, Dr. Keller was a high school science teacher, the state science supervisor for the Maine Department of Education, director of instruction for a public high school and vice president for education at the Biotechnology Institute. He was president of the national Council of State Science Supervisors and served on the NRC’s National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment, which oversaw production of the National Science Education Standards and the NRC’s Committee on Science Education K-12. He has a Bachelor of Science in zoology from Texas A&M University and a doctorate in science education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
When not thinking about science education, Tom enjoys gardening and playing beach volleyball.
