Shuler, Sally Goetz

Sally Goetz Shuler is the Executive Director of the National Science Resources Center (NSRC), sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and The National Academies. The mission of the NSRC is to improve the teaching of science in the nation’s schools.

Since the inception of the NSRC in 1985, Ms. Shuler was the Deputy Director for Development, External Relations and Outreach. In that capacity, she was responsible for outreach programs, external relations, and development for the Center’s programs. Programs include disseminating information about exemplary science curriculum resources, developing innovative science curriculum materials for students, and sponsoring leadership development and technical assistance programs for school districts and community leaders.

She has over three decades of experience working to improve K-12 science education at the local, national and international levels.

At the classroom level, she has ten years of experience as a high school biology, earth science and mathematics teacher in both private and public schools. She has also been a science instructor for adult education in Fairfax County, Virginia.

At the district level, she served for five years as the K-12 science resource specialist for the Fairfax County Public Schools, the nation’s tenth largest school district. In this position, she worked with teachers and school administrators representing 130 elementary schools, 23 intermediate, and 23 high schools to develop and sustain high-quality inquiry centered science programs for 160,000 K-12 students.

Ms. Shuler is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Keystone Science Center and an Advisory Board Member of the Merck Institute for Science Education and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. In addition, Ms. Shuler has served as a consultant and/or has been an advisory board member to many other organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), the Education Development Center (EDC), the Massachusetts Commission for the Arts and Humanities, the Mr. Wizard Foundation, The Magic School bus, Teach for America and the American Physical Society.

Internationally, she has worked with the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and numerous major multinational corporations to initiate K12 science education reform programs in the countries. Ms. Shuler has also worked extensively on a public health education project in Nigeria sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and the Center for Development and Population Activities.

Ms. Shuler has a MS in Environmental Health Sciences from George Washington University, and a BA from Edinboro State University, with majors in Biology and Geology.