

About Dr. Tim Tasker
Tim is a proud data nerd with a passion for making evidence accessible to all stakeholders. He supports network teams to adapt our national evaluation strategy to their local contexts and unique partnership needs. He also designs tools for evaluating the school- and system-level conditions that enable effective teacher professional learning.
Before joining Leading Educators, Tim served as Project Director for a three-year, collaborative grant focused on bullying prevention and school climate improvement. Prior to that, he spent nearly a decade conducting research and evaluation within the education and mental health fields.
Tim holds a B.A. in Psychology from Northwestern University and later earned his Ph.D. in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a former Fellow with the Strategic Data Project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.
Before joining Leading Educators, Tim served as Project Director for a three-year, collaborative grant focused on bullying prevention and school climate improvement. Prior to that, he spent nearly a decade conducting research and evaluation within the education and mental health fields.
Tim holds a B.A. in Psychology from Northwestern University and later earned his Ph.D. in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a former Fellow with the Strategic Data Project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.
Data play a key role in achieving equitable outcomes for students, but equally important are the mindsets that we bring to them.