Global Center for
College & Career Readiness
Faculty, Consultants and Contributors
Our faculty are drawn from members
of the National Reading Panel, the PISA and NAEP assessment teams, the
architects of the SBAC and PARCC assessments, the creators of the Lexile® and
Quantile® frameworks, global experts in Cognitive Demand (DOK) and leaders from
some of the the world’s largest school organizations.
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Kevin E. Baird
Chairman & National Supervising Faculty - Center for College & Career
Readiness
Kevin Baird is a co-author of the Pathway for College & Career Standards
Implementation. For more than 20 years he has served schools, districts,
state and national education offices as an expert in the use of
technology to achieve College & Career Ready outcomes along with
implementation of change models to drive sustainable, enhanced learning
outcomes.
Mr. Baird is the creator of the Common Core Black Belt Certification
Graduate Program accredited by the University of Southern California,
Rossier School of Education, and serves as Graduate Faculty for numerous
blended learning courses for school administrators. He has participated
in educational research on every continent except Antarctica. Outside of
education, Mr. Baird led development of a national information and
alerting system related to weather and traffic with the government of
the People’s Republic of China, and holds patents in the development of
innovative technologies in media.
He is a Beinecke National Scholar, a Wingspread Scholar, has served on
the Secretary’s Circle of Phi Beta Kappa, has contributed to the State
Collaborative for the Survey of Enacted Curriculum led by the CCSSO and
the University of Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and has
served as an executive for multiple education publishers. In his role as
Chairman, Mr. Baird is a sought after keynote speaker and lead
consultant working with some of the largest districts in the United
States and with governments around the world. You can follow him on
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Dr. Karin Hess
Senior Associate - National Center for Assessment
Dr. Karin Hess, Senior Associate with the National Center for Assessment
(NCIEA) since 2002, brings to our work over 30 years of deep experience
in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She has assisted more than a
dozen states in major development of grade level expectations, revisions
to state content standards, and in creating detailed assessment
specifications aligned to content standards that are both educationally
and technically sound. Dr. Hess is recognized nationally for her
research and work with learning progressions and cognitive rigor. Dr.
Hess is one of the principal architects of the Smarter Balanced
Assessment design.Most recently,
her work has focused on development and alignment of educationally sound
and accessible locally-based assessments; the use of content-based
learning progressions for progress monitoring; and assessment practices
that support improved achievement. In addition to 20+ years as an
elementary and middle school classroom teacher and K-12 school
administrator, Dr. Hess has worked at the NJ Department of Education as
state director for gifted education, a program evaluator for the Vermont
Mathematics Project; as a content specialist for development of the
Vermont state science assessment; and as the developer/editor of Science
Exemplars performance assessments. She has authored and co-authored
numerous books, book chapters, and articles on educational assessment
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Dr. Michael L. Kamil
Professor Emeritus - Stanford University
Dr. Michael L. Kamil is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford
University. He has served as a member of the Psychological Studies in
Education Committee; as faculty at the Learning, Design, and Technology
Program; and he has served as an advisor to the Early Childhood Educator
Professional Development Program for the U.S. Department of Education.
He is a contributor to the Common Core State Standards for English
Language Arts.
Dr. Kamil has also contributed to the technical advisory committee of
the Partnership for Accessible Reading Assessments and has chaired both
the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning’s reading advisory
panel and the research panel of the New York State English Language Arts
Standards Revision.
Dr. Kamil was a member of the National Reading Panel, where he chaired
the subgroups on comprehension, technology, and teacher education; the
RAND Reading Study Group; the National Literacy Panel; and the Carnegie
Corporation Advisory Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy. In
addition, Dr. Kamil was chair of the planning committee for the 2009
National Assessment of Educational Progress Reading Framework.
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Dr. Douglas Luffborough
Trustee, Board of Education - Chula Vista, CA
Dr. Doug Luffborough is a national leader in the development of young
people in urban environments. Formerly at City Year and Renaissance
Learning, Doug founded and served as Executive Director for the Turning
the Hearts Center in San Diego, CA. He has also served as a member of
the Board of Education for Chula Vista Elementary School District, the
largest elementary district in the state of California.
Dr. Luffborough is a noted author, speaker and consultant. He has
presented to audiences ranging from Madison Square Garden and his
graduating class at Harvard, to invited audiences with President Clinton
and keynote presentations across the United States. He has consulted
with schools and districts across North America with a focus on creating
high expectations for all students, accelerating literacy skills, and
implementing College & Career Readiness standards. Dr. Luffborough holds
a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, a Master’s Degree in Education for
Administration from Harvard University, and is the recipient of the
prestigious Stanford Fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at the Center
for College & Career Readiness. Dr. Luffborough recently published the
book Watch Me Rise. |
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Dr. Malbert Smith
President - MetaMetrics, Inc.
Dr. Malbert Smith is the co-creator of the Quantile framework for
mathematics and the Lexile framework for reading. Today, he serves as
the President of MetaMetrics Inc., which he co-founded in 1984. Dr.
Smith is an expert in the use of quantitative measurements in education.
The Lexile framework is the most widely used method of evaluating text
difficulty and is the only measure which allows the evaluation of text
difficulty and student comprehension skills using the same scale, P-20.
Both the Lexile and Quantile frameworks are widely used by educational
publishers and are the foundation of the most widely used math and
reading intervention products worldwide. Dr. Smith’s Lexile framework is
explicitly cited in the Common Core Standards as a critical measure of
text difficulty.
Dr. Smith has served on the boards of The Hill Center in Durham, N.C.,
the National Alopecia Arecata Foundation and Durham's Child Guidance
Clinic. He has also served on the Computer Advisory Board for Inc.
Magazine and the North Carolina Council for Economic Development. He is
also a member of and presents to various state and national educational
research and measurement associations. In 1997, North Carolina Governor
Jim Hunt awarded Dr. Smith the prestigious Order of the Longleaf Pine,
the state's highest civilian honor. He has published and presented
numerous papers in the field of educational assessment and measurement,
and has taught graduate seminars at Duke University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. in
educational psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and his undergraduate degree in psychology from Duke University.
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