2023-2024
Corrie Rebecca Block, PhD, President
As a faculty member at the School of Medical, Molecular & Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University in Australia, Corrie examines curriculum, instruction and assessments to make sense of student achievement. Before arriving in Australia, she had been at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato–University of Waikato in Aotearoa–New Zealand. There, she conducted a program evaluation of the Study Advising Programme and taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in Te Kura Toi Tangata–School of Education. Corrie believes Mastery Learning is one of the best approaches to engage students in their learning and inspire achievement. Mastery Learning is the foundation of her teaching as it was during her tenure as an Associate Professor of Measurement, Evaluation and Policy Studies at Bellarmine University, United States of America. She has taught social studies and special education in secondary, middle and primary schools.
Tanisha Garrett, President-Elect
Tanisha Garrett is the Principal of Madison Park Academy after serving in the following roles, Assistant Principal for Climate and Culture, History Department Chair, a member of the Instructional Leadership Team, the co-founder and sponsor of the Black Student Union. She is working to complete her doctoral degree in Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Tanisha's research seeks to address the ways anti-blackness in public secondary schools has impacted Black liberation. Her research discusses the role education has played to continue the oppression of Black people in the United States. Tanisha holds a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master of Arts in Teaching with a Learning and Behavior Disorders certification.
Man-Wai Chu
Man-Wai joined the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences program. Her research focuses on using innovative and interactive digital assessments, such as science laboratory environments and game-based assessments, to measure students’ performance-based skills in the classroom and on standardized tests. An extension of her research with these assessments has led her to studying students’ development of mental models and their associations with socio-emotional variables that enhance assessment performance. Man-Wai approaches her research using a variety of quantitative methods such as such as Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Structural Equation Modeling, and Data Mining.
Justin Fischetti
Justin Fischetti serves as Principal at Charles P. Murray Middle School in Wilmington, North Carolina. Prior to this position, he was an Assistant Principal at John T. Hoggard High School, and a Social Studies teacher at New Hanover High School and Southern Lee High School. He is an alumnus of both the NC Teaching Fellows and NC Principal Fellows programs. He gained both his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has presented at the CREATE conference, and is an advocate for the mission of CREATE.
David Marshall
David T. Marshall is an assistant professor of educational research in the College of Education at Auburn University. Current research intersts include the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on K-12 education, charter schools and parental choice, and innovative approaches to teacher preparation. His forthcoming book, COVID-19 and the Classroom: How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption shares social science research on the pandemic's impact on education and serves as a history book documenting what schooling was like during this period. Dr. Marshall currently serves as the Chair of the Alabama Public Charter School Commission. He previously taught middle and high school social studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Marshall received his Ph.D. in educational research and evaluation from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Robert Rodosky
Dr. Rodosky (Bob) earned his Ph.D at the Ohio State University in the area of Curriculum Foundations and Research. His career started as a program evaluator for the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools. From there, he became the Assistant Director of the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and then in 1983, was named the Executive Director of the Accountability, Research and Planning Department for the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Ky. After 33 years with the district, he retired as Chief of Data Management, Planning and Program Evaluation.Under Bob's leadership, the department he led provided valid, reliable and useful information in a timely manner to federal, state and local policy makers and school district stakeholders. Over the years, he has held adjunct professor appointments at Western Michigan University, the University of Louisville and Vanderbilt University.
