President

Beverly R. DeVore-Wedding, Ph.D., is president of the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). She began serving her one-year term on June 1, 2025. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named her a 2024 Education Fellow.

DeVore-Wedding taught high school and community college math and science in Colorado for more than 25 years. From 2014 to 2018, she was a science curriculum developer, chemistry instructor, and lab coordinator for Nebraska Indian Community College. She was also a teacher educator at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado, from 2019 to 2023. From August 2023 through May 2025, she taught science remotely at the Nebraska Indian Community College.

Her educational background includes earning bachelor’s degrees in botany and science education and a master’s degree in botany from the University of Wyoming, Laramie; a master’s degree in science education from Montana State University, Bozeman; and a Ph.D. in Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Among her certifications are Colorado Professional Teacher Licensure: Science and Math endorsements and Wyoming Professional Teacher certification in Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and General Science.

DeVore-Wedding holds and has held numerous leadership and service positions in a range of organizations, including the Colorado Association of Science Teachers (presidential chain, 2007– 2009; secretary, 2023–present), Colorado Department of Education (PK–12 Science Advisory Board, 2023–present; reviewer of educator preparation programs, 2018, 2019, 2022), Colorado Science Educators Network Steering Committee (2019–present; chair, 2021–2022), and National Science Educators Leadership Association (Diversity & Equity Committee Chair, 2021–2023; Public Relations Committee, 2011). For NSTA, she has served as High School Division Director (2013– 2016), District XIV Director (2009–2012), chair of the Rural Science Advisory Board (2018–2020), chair of The Science Teacher Advisory Board (2010–2011), and co-chair of the Awards Task Force (2022), among many other committees.

In addition, DeVore-Wedding has given countless presentations on diverse topics at national and state conferences and events. For example, at NSTA’s 2024 National Conference in Denver, she addressed Using Three-Dimensional Instruction with Project-Based Learning, as well as Reading and Writing in Science Beyond the Lab Report. At the American Chemical Society’s Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, she spoke about Ethnoscience Strategies to Indigenize Science at Tribal Colleges: Connecting to the Tribal Community. At the National Rural Education Association’s National Conference, she presented the topic Resiliency of Secondary Science Teachers in Rural Schools.

She has authored or co-authored articles, research papers, and book chapters in a variety of publications, including School Science and Mathematics; Tribal College and University Research Journal; The Science Teacher, NSTA's high school journal; Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education, USA; the Wicazo Sa Review, an interdisciplinary journal in the field of Native American Studies; Operant Subjectivity,  the official journal of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity; and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Quarterly.

In her free time, DeVore-Wedding loves being outdoors in the mountains of Colorado, cross-country skiing, hiking, trail running, and biking with her husband and friends. She also enjoys watching her grandchildren play soccer and act in school plays and doing STEM projects with them.  When not outdoors playing, she enjoys reading non-fiction, sewing, and planning the next road trip with her science family.