R. MARTIN REARDON earned his MEd in Mathematics Education from Queensland University of Technology (Australia), and his PhD in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Prior to gaining his doctorate in 2000, Martin held a wide range of teaching and administrative positions over the course of his 27-year career at the high school level.

In 2001, Martin commenced his teaching career in higher education in the graduate educational leadership program at Marian University in Wisconsin. After one year at Marian, he accepted the offer of an administrative position there, and spent three years as the inaugural Chair of Leadership Studies. He then moved to Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005, where he taught courses in leadership studies, ethics, educational policy, curriculum, evidence-informed practice, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, instructional leadership, and program evaluation at both the Masters and Doctoral levels.

He was the Director of that program for two years before moving to East Carolina University (ECU) in 2013, where his first task was to complete the application process for the College of Education to be admitted to membership of CPED.  He teaches a wide range of courses predominantly in the EdD program within the Educational Leadership Department. He played an integral role in the establishment at VCU of an Education Doctorate (EdD) Program aligned with the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED). He was the Director of that program for two years before moving to East Carolina University (ECU) in 2013, where his first task was to complete the application process for the College of Education to be admitted to membership of CPED.   He teaches a wide range of courses both face-to-face and online--predominantly in the EdD program within the Educational Leadership Department.

Martin’s research is currently focused on school/university/community collaboration as a context for change and he has edited/co-edited four books addressing this topic. He is a Fellow of the Rural Education Institute at East Carolina University and is a Co-PI on a $1 million NSF grant to integrate computational thinking with the teaching of music and visual arts in three rural eastern North Carolina school districts. He is also the evaluator on a $100 thousand North Carolina DPI grant to institute a trauma-informed approach to teaching in another rural school district in eastern North Carolina.