Cheryl is a district-level public school administrator. She is currently the Director of Personnel and Professional Learning for the Chelmsford Public Schools in Chelmsford, MA. Prior to this she served as the Coordinator of Leadership Development in the...
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 an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University. His research focuses on teacher policy, the economics of education, and teacher labor markets. He has published on teacher professional learning, teacher improvement...
Mindy received her doctorate in Education Policy Leadership and Instructional Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A former middle school math teacher, she also served as Education Policy Advisor to Governor Jim Edgar of Illinois from...
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...
