Leadership
Marshall has held numerous statewide leadership positions including President of the Illinois Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, a member of the Governor’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee, Chairman of the State Board of Education’s Gifted Policy Advisory Committee, member of the Resource Committee of the Metropolitan Planning Council of Chicago, and a member of the National Commission for the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has taught at every educational level from elementary school through the doctoral level and has served as a member of the graduate faculty at National Louis University and Loyola University Chicago.
In 1993, Marshall was elected President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the largest educational leadership organization in the world (over 175,000 members). Marshall was a consultant to the United States Department of Education’s Overseas Schools, and also to the Near East School Administrators. She continues to consult internationally and is currently working with the Government of South Australia on a major project called Learning to Learn.
Formerly the superintendent of schools in Batavia, Illinois, Marshall left her position in 1985 to found IMSA in nearby Aurora, Illinois. Working with Dr. Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1988) and director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Marshall worked with the Illinois General Assembly to open a school that would specifically build talent in mathematics, science, and technology. She currently serves as president emeritus of IMSA.
She served as an advisor to the Education Task Force of the President’s Council of Science Advisors, as a member of the National Policy Council, the National Forum for Educational Organizational Leaders, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Advanced Study in Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools.
She has served as the Chairman of the Great Lakes District Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship, and as a member of the Commissioning Committee of the USS Abraham Lincoln. At the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev, she became a member of the State of The World Forum, an international “think-tank” designed to study and resolve issues impacting global sustainability. She has addressed the Forum on several occasions on issues of educational transformation.
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