2025 NSTA Elections
Lend Your Voice to the Future of Science Education
Apply or nominate a colleague to join our leadership in promoting effective, innovative science education beyond your school or district.
Applicant Requirements
- you must be a current member of NSTA
- meet the requirements of the position being sought as outlined in the Governance Structure (see below).
Eligible Offices for the 2025 Election
Board of Directors
Supporting Documents
Positions Available
To ensure a well-rounded Board, expertise is currently needed in the following areas:
- From specific geographic areas (West Coast, Northeast, South),
- Experience in early childhood or elementary education
- Experience in nonprofit management and/or business knowledge
- Experience in policy-making/advocacy
This year, the Board is seeking to fill the following positions:
- President
- Early Career Educator within 5 years of their first position in an educational field
- 3 Board Member At-Large Directors (Two directors with 4-year terms and One director with a 2-year partial term)
Leadership Council
Supporting Documents
Positions Available
Members who live and/or work in the following districts, to serve as District Leaders:
- District III: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland
- District V: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
- District IX: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
- District XI: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
- District XV: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
- District XVII: Alaska, Oregon, Washington
Members from the following constituencies, to serve as Division Leaders:
- High School Science Teachers
- Science Coordinators/Supervisors
- Postsecondary Instructors
NSTA's Governance Structure
The Board of Directors is composed of the three (3) NSTA Presidents and ten (10) directors elected by the membership. One Director shall be an early career educator within 5 years of their first position in an educational field. The majority of Directors will be practitioners in formal or informal institutions currently or within the last 5 years. Learn More
Guidelines & Responsibilities
The Leadership Council is composed of the NSTA President; eighteen (18) District Leaders and ten (10) Division Leaders. The duties of the Leadership Council shall be to inform the Board of important external trends, opportunities, and threats; create and nurture communities at the state level and within professional interests; identify potential partnerships, create educational policy statements, chair regional and division committees, and foster relations with state chapters and affiliated groups. Learn More
Guidelines & Responsibilities
Timeline
September 19
Web Seminar: Nominations – Leadership Opportunities for Members, September 19, 2024
Nominations portal open to the membership to apply or nominate a colleague.
January 5
Last day to submit a completed application.
January 24 - February 20
Review your current email address on file in your member record. Update your email by logging into your membership account.
March 26
Ballots sent to the current NSTA membership. You must be a member prior to March 20 in order to vote in the election. Nomination and Election Guidelines prohibit campaigning for all elections. The publication of each candidate's biographical data and position statement shall be the total extent to which Association members are informed about candidates for office.
April 25
Final day to cast your ballot.
May 1
Election Results Announced unless there is a tie. In that event, results to be announced May 8th.
Procedures for NSTA Election for Board of Directors
An outside independent contractor will e-mail ballots and biographical material, receive returned ballots, count and tally results, and report those results first to the chairperson of the NSTA Nominations Committee, and then to the NSTA Executive Director.
By vote of NSTA Membership, NSTA Bylaws will now allow the inclusion of electronic balloting procedures for the Board of Directors and Council elections.
The contractor will be responsible for assuring accuracy of data entry, shall retain all ballots until the election is certified by the Nominations Committee, and provide, with acceptable evidence, ballots to members who may not have received them due to e-mail or other problems. Using guidelines provided by the Nominations Committee, the contractor will be responsible for accepting or rejecting ballots, reporting on those and providing invalid ballots to the Nominations Committee following the election. The Nominations Committee then has the authority to make final decisions on such questionable ballots.
For More Information
Please contact the NSTA Nominations’ Program Liaison
703.312.9254 • nominations@nsta.org