Richard Kunkel
Dr. Richard C. Kunkel serves as professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Florida State University and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Teacher Support Network of Princeton New Jersey.
Kunkel is active in state, regional and national education activities. He was the founding chairman of the A+ Policy Committee, which is a grassroots education reform effort in Alabama. Kunkel also was appointed to the National Research and Evaluation Advisory Panel of Teach for America and he served as the facilitator for the Disney Development Corporation’s Celebration School Visioning Workshop, as well as senior advisor to the Celebration School and Teaching Academy.
In 1997, he testified at hearings on “The Higher Education Act” and later served as a proposal reader in preliminary and final selection of grants for school/university partnerships under Title II of the Higher Education Act.
Previously, Kunkel served as executive director of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Evaluation (NCATE) beginning in 1984. Particularly skilled in the areas of program evaluation and staff development, Kunkel has served as consultant to the U.S. AID programs, to Teacher Corps and teacher centers, to the Lilly Endowment and Danforth Foundation, the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Education, and as a long term evaluator to Cities in Schools and various bilingual and Hispanic education projects.