Prior to completing his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison in 2010, Dr. Klar held a variety of teaching and educational leadership positions in Japan, Australia, and China. At Clemson, he led the South Carolina Successful School Principals’ Project, and is currently co‐director of a leadership mentoring initiative developed in collaboration with the Western Piedmont Education Consortium called the Leadership Learning Community (LLC). His teaching and research is focused on developing leadership for improving teaching and learning, especially in high‐needs schools. A recent article, “Fostering the capacity for distributed leadership: A post‐heroic approach to leading school improvement,” (with Kristin Huggins, Hattie Hammonds, and Frederick Buskey) was published in the International Journal of Leadership in Education in 2015.