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Appendix A: edTPA National Advisory Board
Advisory Board
The edTPA Advisory Board was appointed in April 2013 to counsel partners on the design, implementation, policy and
governance of the assessment. The board’s goal is to ensure that edTPA is a high-quality assessment that is well-used
and eective in developing entering teachers, assessing their level of preparation and supporting teacher preparation
programs. The advisory board was designed to include a broad representation from the field in order to ensure that
edTPA continues to be developed and led by the educators it was designed to serve. Current members of the advisory
board are:
William Buxton, Associate Professor, Literacy
Education Department, SUNY Cortland
Thomas Bordenkircher, Michigan and Ohio Director
for Teaching Fellowships, Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation
Lynn Cherkasky-Davis, Quest Center Coordinator,
National Board Certification Initiatives, NBCT, Chicago
Teachers Union
Mitchell Chester, Commissioner, Massachusetts
Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Jim Cibulka, President, National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education and Council for the
Accreditation of Educator Preparation
Carl Cohn, Clinical Professor of Education, Claremont
Graduate University
Mary Diez, Professor, School of Education, Alverno
College
Daniel Domenech, Executive Director, American
Association of School Administrators
Anne Marie Fenton, Program Director of Assessment,
Georgia Professional Standards Commission
Chris Koch, State Superintendent, Illinois State Board
of Education
Marvin Lynn, Dean, School of Education, Indiana
University South Bend
Callie Marksbary, Classroom Teacher, Lafayette,
Indiana and Chair of the NEA Professional Standards
and Practice (PSP) Committee
Bill McDiarmid, Dean and Alumni Distinguished
Professor of Education, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Kendra Phelps, Professional Issues Representative,
Cincinnati Federation of Teachers
Rebecca Pringle, Secretary-Treasurer, National
Education Association
Phil Rogers, Executive Director, National Association of
State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification
David Sevier, Deputy Executive Director, State of
Tennessee Board of Education
Lee Shulman, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University
Kathleen Skinner, Director Center for Education Policy
and Practice, Massachusetts Teachers Association
Ron Thorpe, President and CEO, National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards
Jennifer Wallace, Executive Director, Professional
Education Standards Board, Washington
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of
Teachers
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
Beverly Young, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Teacher
Education and Public School Programs, California State
University System
Ken Zeichner, Professor and Director of Teacher
Education, University of Washington