Angela Wheeler
Professional Publications
Synergistic Activities:
January 2022-present – Austin Community College Biology 1406 Online Lab Redesign Committee
I assisted with aligning the Common Course Objectives with the Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) Standards. I redesigned the online lab curriculum to be more coherent and user-friendly in an online platform. I trained biology faculty to use the redesigned curriculum in their courses.
September 2013 to August 2017 –Austin Community College Bio-Link Regional Advanced Technological Education Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences
I served as the coordinator for outreach and training for the AC2 Regional Center. My responsibilities include scaling up a mentor network for high school biotechnology teachers, supporting high school teachers through training and online resources, developing student recruitment pipelines into industry, and establishing articulation agreements between high school, two-year, and four-year universities.
September 2013 to August 2014 – Perkins Leadership Grant/ Career Training for HS Teachers
I served as co-PI for this grant and assisted in developing the first stage of a mentor network for 12 high school teachers in regions across Texas. The focus of the grant was to increase the proficiency of high school biotechnology teachers to implement a consistent high school curriculum that meets College and Career Readiness standards (CCRS) and establish a professional support system via area community colleges to increase student learning, career awareness, and transferability to college programs. I assisted teachers in implementing career days to recruit students to biotech and provided hands-on and online training in best practices in pedagogy and lab implementation.
May 2010 to August 2013- TEA CTE/Science Strategic Planning Project
I served as co-leader and professional development specialist for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and assisted with developing strategic plans and timelines for implementing professional development to Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Science instructors to prepare them to teach new CTE Biotech courses that satisfy science high school graduation credits.
September 2009 to July 2010 TEA/Biotechnology Professional Development Grant Phase 2
In response to the positive feedback from phase 1 of the TEA/Biotech grant, I was asked to create three new modules to serve as professional development for high school academic and career and technology (CTE) teachers. I served as lead curriculum developer and institute trainer on this project and wrote two modules on agricultural and medical biotechnology. I also led the training at two summer institutes providing agriculture and health science teachers with biotechnology-based lab experience.
September 2008 to July 2009 TEA/Biotechnology Professional Development Grant
I served as lead curriculum developer and TEA’s “Memorandum of Understanding Biotechnology” project. The goal of the project was to create academic and career and technical education (CTE) for teachers’ rigorous professional development in biotechnology. I wrote three modules for this project on biotechnology basics, applications of DNA technology, and workforce applications. I also led the training of three summer institutes, providing teachers with hands-on training in basic biotechnology lab skills.
2001, Partial Nucleotide Sequence, Mapping, and Relative Expression of a Xiphophorus Fish NF1 Gene (master's thesis)
2005-2006, I developed 8 biotechnology modules that aligned to current textbooks and the Texas Education Agency’s Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) state standards.
Publications
Wheeler, A., and Lazare J (2010). TEA Advanced Biotechnology Teacher Certification Modules and
Exam, http://www.projectsharetexas.org/node/3254.
Wheeler, A., and Lazare J. (2010). TEA/CTE Advanced Biotechnology Curriculum,
http://cte.unt.edu/stem/curriculum/advbiotech.
Wheeler, A., and Lazare J. (2010). TEA Advanced Biotechnology [Video podcast].
https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/tea-advanced-biotechnology.
Wheeler, A., and Lazare J. (2011). Introduction to Biotechnology [e-book].
Published: April 17, 2025