Angela Eckhoff is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and Director of the Virginia Early Childhood Policy Center at Old Dominion University in Virginia. She holds a dual PhD from the University of Colorado – Boulder in Educational Psychology and Cognitive Science. She is a coeditor of the Full STEAM Ahead column for Teaching Young Children from the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Dr. Eckhoff studies the role of creativity in child development and learning, arts-based research and pedagogical practices, and early STEAM learning in both classroom and museum settings. She is the author of Provoking Curiosity: Student-Led STEAM Learning for Pre-K to Third Grade and the Creative Investigations in Early STEAM book series from Gryphon House Publishers.