William
E. Reaves -
Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Education for The
Texas A&M University System, and Executive Director of the
Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher
Education (CREATE)
Bill Reaves currently serves in the dual capacity of Associate
Vice Chancellor for Public Education for The Texas A&M University
System, and as Executive Director of the Center for Research,
Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE).
In this capacity Dr. Reaves oversees statewide teacher quality
and public school improvement projects involving all nine
universities within The Texas A&M University System, including
the Regents' Initiative for Excellence in Education. In addition,
Dr. Reaves works as the founding Executive Director of CREATE,
a collaborative research and development center focusing on
improving teacher education programs and involving The Texas
A&M University System, The Texas State University System and
The University of Texas System.
Dr. Reaves assumed his current assignment in September of
1996. From 1996-2003, Dr. Reaves also served as Assistant
Commissioner for School-University Initiatives for the Texas
Education Agency as a part of the A&M System's Partnership
for Texas Public Schools. Immediately prior to that he served
as Associate Dean of the College of Education and Fine Arts
at Tarleton State University, coordinating that university's
fifty campus Effective Schools Project, as well as other school-university
initiatives.
Dr. Reaves came to higher education with twenty years of experience
in the public schools as a teacher and administrator in three
states. In Texas, he served as Deputy Superintendent for Instruction
of the Fort Bend Independent School District, Superintendent
of the Palacios Independent School District, as well as Executive
Director of the Teachers' Professional Practices Commission
of Texas.
Originally from Brazoria, Texas, he received his undergraduate
degree in Psychology and Masters degree in Education from
the University of South Alabama, and attained the Ph.D. in
Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin.
He is married to Dr. Linda Reaves, who is currently Chief
Education Officer at Region IV Education Service Center.
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