ASCD Presenter Bio

Thomas Guskey

Guskey is professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky and is well known for his work in professional development and educational change. He is included in the National Staff Development Council’s Leaders in Staff Development and is the only person to have twice won the council’s Book of the Year award and three times won the Article of the Year award. 

Guskey served on the Policy Research Team of the National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future and on the Task Force to develop the National Standards for Staff Development, and he recently was named a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association, one of the Association’s highest honors. Guskey is the author/editor of 18 books and more than 200 articles and papers, and he has been featured on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "Talk of the Nation." As a consultant to education agencies around the world, he brings clarity and insight to education's most complex problems.