Biography
Stephanie Pace Marshall is the
Founding President and President Emerita of the internationally recognized
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy®. IMSA develops creative, ethical
leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As a teaching
and learning laboratory created by the State of Illinois, IMSA enrolls
academically talented Illinois students (grades 10-12) in its advanced,
residential college preparatory program. It also serves thousands of
educators and students in Illinois and beyond through innovative
instructional programs that foster imagination and inquiry. (www.imsa.edu)
Marshall is internationally recognized as a pioneer and innovative leader
and teacher and an inspiring speaker and writer on leadership, learning and
schooling, and the design of generative and life-affirming learning
organizations. She has published over thirty articles in professional
journals and was an author for the Drucker Foundation’s series Organizations
of the Future. She served as an editor and chapter author of Scientific
Literacy for the 21st Century (2002) and was a contributing advisor to
Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and
Science in U. S. High Schools (published by the National Academy of Science
in 2002).
Marshall was the founding president of the National Consortium for
Specialized Secondary Schools in Mathematics, Science and Technology, and
the president of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD),
one of the world’s largest international education associations. She was
elected a fellow in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufacturers, and Commerce in London, England and serves on the board of
the Queen Noor Foundation in Amman, Jordan, and several other foundation and
corporate boards in the United States. In 2007, she became a member of the
Board of Directors for the Society for Science and the Public and a charter
member of the Advisory Board for AECT’s FutureMinds: Transforming American
School Systems.
Marshall has been recognized by the R J R Nabisco Corporation as one of the
nation’s most innovative educational leaders and by the National Association
of School Boards as one of North America’s 100 Best Educators. She has
received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership, including the
Distinguished Service Award from the U. S. Marine Corp, the Woman
Extraordinaire Award by the International Women’s Association, and the
Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award from the Boy Scouts of America. She
earned her Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago and has received four
honorary doctorates in science and in arts and letters. In 2007, she
received the Pioneer Award from the Board of Trustees of the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy.
Marshall has worked in every level of education: superintendent of schools,
a district curriculum administrator, a graduate school faculty member, and
an elementary and middle school teacher. Along with her formal leadership
positions, she consults with national and international policy leaders and
practitioners and is a dynamic speaker. As a result of her achievements, in
2005 she was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and was
designated a Laureate of the Academy, the state’s highest award for
achievement that “contributes to the betterment of mankind.” At the
invitation of President William Jefferson Clinton, Dr. Marshall became a
member in 2007 of the Clinton Global Initiative, a non-partisan cadre of
"the world's most influential leaders committed to strengthening the
capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global
interdependence.”
She has two stepchildren and five grandchildren and lives in Wheaton,
Illinois with her husband Robert and as often as they can, they travel to
their home, Kaleidoscope Mountain, in Breckenridge, Colorado.
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