Ted Willard, Project Director
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Ted Willard is project director for AAAS Project 2061. He oversees the project’s National Science Foundation-funded initiative to create tools that support the development of goals-based curriculum materials in science and mathematics. Willard also leads Project 2061’s “Using Atlas of Science Literacy” workshops and contributes to several National Science Digital Library projects.

In his previous role as a senior research associate at Project 2061, Willard was responsible for the development of the growth-of-understanding maps published in Atlas of Science Literacy, Volume 2. The maps in Atlas portray the relationships between specific learning goals and show how students’ understanding of key science ideas and skills might develop from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Before joining Project 2061, he was an instructor of physics and dormitory supervisor at The Asheville School, an independent coeducational boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina. He also spent five years editing elementary and high school science textbooks for the Globe Book Company, a part of Prentice Hall, as well as for Harcourt Brace School Publishers.

Willard holds a B.S. in earth, atmospheric, and planetary science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.