Biography
Dr. Angela K. Salmon is a Fulbright Global Scholar whose research and collaborative work has taken her to Colombia, Greece, and Poland. She is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Florida International University, where her work focuses on thinking and learning, global competencies, storytelling, and innovative approaches to early education. Through research, teaching, and international collaboration, she promotes authentic and meaningful learning experiences that prepare educators and students for a complex and interconnected world.
She is recognized as a Notable Global Learning Faculty member at FIU and is actively engaged in international initiatives, including Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Dr. Salmon is the founder and leader of Visible Thinking South Florida and has a longstanding collaboration with Harvard Project Zero, which has led to numerous action research projects, publications, presentations, and professional learning initiatives.
Her scholarship explores cognitive engagement, emotions, play, habits of mind, executive functions, and thinking dispositions as foundations for innovation and problem solving. She has presented and consulted across the Americas, Europe, and Oceania, served as a Thinker in Residence in Australia, and chaired multiple editions of the International Visible Thinking Conference as well as the 18th International Conference on Thinking.