Cheryl serves as Assistant Superintendent for the Mendon-Upton Regional School District in Mendon & Upton, MA. Prior to this role she has served in various capacities in public school leadership including Director of Personnel and Professional Learning...
Stacy Szczesiul is the Associate Dean of Online Education, Accreditation & Licensing for the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Much of her work is dedicated to building a strong, diverse...
Jennifer L. Steele is an Associate Professor of Education at American University, where she studies education policy and the economics of education. Her recent work, funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, has examined the causal effects of dual...
Emily Kalejs Qazilbash, EdD, is a Professor of Practice of Education at Brown University and an affiliate faculty member at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown. Emily conducts research on teacher retention, teacher career trajectories...
In 2022, Dr. Heather Peske became President of the National Council on Teacher Quality. She is driven by the goal that all children in our nation have access to an effective and diverse teacher workforce. Prior to joining NCTQ she was Senior Associate...
John P. Papay is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Associate Professor of Education Policy at Brown University, where he directs the Annenberg Institute. His research focuses on policies that affect teachers and how schools and policies create or work to...
Mindy currently chairs the Dean’s Leadership Council at the Harvard Graduate School of Education https://www.gse.harvard.edu/giving/dlc and serves on several nonprofit boards focused on expanding educational opportunity. She has broad experience in...
Will Marinell is a high school English teacher at Newton North High School in Newton, MA. In addition to his experience as a teacher, he has held senior positions in applied education research at Harvard University (Director of Analytics, Center for...
Ed Liu is the Chief Improvement Officer of Boston Plan for Excellence, which runs the Boston Teacher Residency, one of the pioneers of the teacher residency model in the early 2000s, and operates two Boston public schools. Prior to BPE, Dr. Liu was...
David Kauffman has worked as a public school teacher and administrator, school leadership consultant, and educational policy researcher. He opened and is currently the principal of Lance Corporal Nicholas S. Perez Elementary School in Austin, Texas...
