Angela Eckhoff is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning-Early Childhood Education and co-director of the Virginia Early Childhood Policy Center at Old Dominion University in Virginia. She is a co-editor of the Growing in STEM column for Young Children and the Full STEAM Ahead column for Teaching Young Children (National Association for the Education of Young Children). Her areas of research and expertise are centered around understanding the pedagogical practices that support and extend current conceptions of creativity and content area learning during early childhood; informal (out of school) learning environments, and early childhood policy. She is the author of Creative Investigations in Early Math published by Gryphon House.