People

Lee S. Shulman is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, past president of the American Educational Research Association and a founder and past Co-director of the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University.

Marshall (Mike) Smith was Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 2000 and Acting Deputy Secretary from 1996 to 2000.

Deborah Stipek is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Psychology at Stanford University and has served as Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Joan Talbert is Senior Research Scholar and Co-director Emeritus of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching in Stanford University’s School of Education, which she co-founded in 1987.

Steve Tozer is Professor Emeritus and past University Scholar in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he was founding Director of the UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership.

Guadalupe Valdés is the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

Tony Wagner served as founder and Co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the first Innovation Education Fellow at Harvard’s Technology & Entrepreneurship Center. 

Roger P. Weissberg is NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning, Liberal Arts and Science Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.