Leadership and Scholarly Community

• Elected Vice President of Scientific and Professional Development. International Union for Health Promotion and Education, North American Regional Office (2016–2019)
• Co-Editor, International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (2015–2016)
• Reviewer, MITACS Accelerate internship proposal (2015)
  
• Chair, American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Research Use (2003–2006, 2014–2015)
• Board Member, BCASCD (the British Columbia affiliate to ASCD) (2013–2015)
  
• Advisory Board Member, Educational Methodology, Policy, Leadership Program, University of Oregon (2013–present)
  
• Conference Director, Transitions, Innovations, and Opportunities in Education, Summer Institute, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University. www.sfusummerinstitute.info (2011, July)
  
• Conference Director, Instigators and Instruments of Educational Change, Summer Institute. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University. www.sfusummerinstitute.info (2010, July)
  
• Founding Director, Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy (2007–2012)
  The Centre’s mission is to facilitate and extend theoretical and applied research into educational leadership and policy; develop long-term collaborative relationships with the education system in British Columbia, across Canada and Internationally. Over the five years of my directorship the Centre garnered over $177,000 in projects focused on leadership and policy issues in British Columbia and internationally.
• Program Chair, American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Research Use (2006–2008, 2011)
• Author/Editor, ResearchBrief (an online research dissemination publication sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
• Invited Participant, CCPA Education Governance Seminar, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Vancouver, BC (2006, January)
• Invited Participant, Policy Roundtable on Parent and Teacher Views on Education, Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education, Vancouver, BC (2005, November)
• Invited Panelist, Developing a vision for knowledge utilization in education: A brainstorming and advisory session convened by National Education Knowledge Industries Association, Washington, DC (2004, December)
• Mini-course presentation, annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California.Laitsch, D., Pool, C., Scherer, M., & Willis, S. (2004). Communicating Your Research to Practicing Educators: Writing for Publication.
  
• Organizer and presenter, Education Technology Module (University of the West Indies): content on educational technology programs, policies, and implementation efforts as part of an SFU/UWI collaborative MEd program located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Spring, 2007)
• Member, Joint Consortium for School Health: Policy analysis and engagement in comprehensive and coordinated school health issues, Vancouver, BC. (2005–2007)
• Convener and Attendant, Radical Teaching by Design, LIDC (2007)
  
• Presenter, Faculty Exchange, LIDC (2007)
• Program Chair, Special Interest Group on Research Use, American Educational Research Association (2006, 2007)
  
• Chair, Special Interest Group on Research Use, American Educational Research Association (2003–2006)
  
• Peer review, Session Chair and Moderator: American Educational Research Association annual meetings (2003–2007)
  
• Textbook Reviewer, Oxford University Press (2007)
  
• Editorial Board Member, UBC/SLC Policy Briefs (2007)
  
• Co-Founding Editor with Penelope M. Earley, George Mason University, Virginia, USA. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, open access refereed on-line journal (First published: June 2006)
• Founding Author-Editor of ASCD ResearchBrief. Author-editor of an open access Web-based publication offering practitioners and policymakers contextualized and focused summaries of original, interdisciplinary, high-quality research (Published January 2003–June 2007)