Heidi Schweingruber

Heidi Schweingruber is the director of the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She oversees a portfolio of work that includes K–12 science education, informal science education, and higher education. She joined the board in 2004 as a senior program officer. In this role, she directed or co-directed several projects, including the study that resulted in the report A Framework for K–12 Science Education (2011), the blueprint for the Next Generation Science Standards. Most recently, she co-directed the study that produced the 2021 report Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future. She is a nationally recognized leader in leveraging research findings to catalyze improvements in science and STEM education policy and practice. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology (developmental) and anthropology from the University of Michigan.