Stephen Pruitt is senior vice president at Achieve. For the past three years, he has been leading the development of the Next Generation Science Standards. Stephen began his career as a high school chemistry teacher in Georgia, where he taught for 12 years. In 2003, he joined the Georgia Department of Education as the Program Manager for Science. Until 2010, he held various roles in the agency culminating with him being named Chief of Staff to State School Superintendent, coordinating the work of the agency.

In addition to his state-level work, Stephen also served as president of the Council of State Science Supervisors and a member of the writing team for the College Board’s Standards for College Success Science Standards. He also served on the National Academies of Science’s Committee on Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards, which developed the Framework for K–12 Science Education