Dr. Nancy M. Landes joined BSCS as a curriculum developer in 1983 and currently serves as Senior Science Educator. Since joining BSCS, she has directed a number of projects, both in curriculum and professional development. Specifically, Nancy served as the project director of two major curriculum development projects—Science for Life and Living: Integrating Science, Technology, and Health and BSCS Science TRACKS, both in elementary science education. She was part of the team that developed the BSCS 5E Instructional Model in the mid-1980s and helped cultivate the organization’s use of collaborative learning, formative assessment, and inquiry-based strategies for teaching and learning. She also served as the co-principal investigator of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded high school implementation and dissemination project that produced the BSCS National Academy for Curriculum Leadership (NACL).

Currently, Nancy serves as the project director of the NSF-funded Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) research project. STeLLA is designed to help 4th- and 5th-grade teachers improve their science teaching through content deepening and videocase-based lesson analysis of science teaching and learning.

Nancy began her professional career as a classroom teacher. She has a M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction and a Ph.D. in Science Education from Michigan State University.