Roddy Theobald is the Deputy Director of the National Center for Analysis for Longitudinal
Data in Education Research (CALDER) and a Principal Researcher at American Institutes
for Research. 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, licensing,
and effectiveness in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington, with a particular
focus on teacher labor markets for special education and career and technical education
(CTE) teachers.