Roddy Theobald
CALDER Deputy Director | Managing Researcher
American Institutes for Research
Roddy Theobald is a Managing Researcher at AIR and Deputy Director of CALDER. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2015, and previously worked 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. His ongoing projects investigate teacher education and licensing, career and technical education, and special education in Hawaii, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Areas of Expertise
Special Education
Teacher Collective Bargaining
Teacher Education
Teacher Quality
Career and Technical Education