Roddy Theobald

Roddy Theobald is a senior policy researcher at RAND. He is the co-director of the Special Educator Workforce: A Research Collaborative (SPARC Center), an IES-funded research and development center focused on studying the composition, distribution, stability, and effectiveness of the special education teacher workforce across seven states. His other ongoing projects investigate teacher education and licensing, career and technical education, and special education in Hawaii, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Roddy received his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Washington in 2015, and he previously worked as a managing researcher and deputy director of CALDER at American Institutes for Research, as a research assistant at the Center for Education Data and Research at the University of Washington, and as a 7th-grade math teacher at Westlake Middle School in the Oakland (CA) Unified School District as a Teach For America corps member.