Xianxuan Xu received her doctorate from the College of William and Mary’s Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Program. She worked with international, state and regional education agencies as well as individual school districts as a consultant. Her research interests are teacher effectiveness, professional development, teacher and principal evaluation. She is also particularly interested in researching the relationship between culture and educational issues such as teaching, learning, and leadership. Her research studies were published in scholarly journals, such as Asia Pacific Education Review, Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, Creativity Research Journal, and Educational Management, Administration & Leadership. She has presented findings of her research at various national conferences, including American Educational Research Association, University Council for Educational Administration, and National Evaluation Institute. She is also the contributing author to a series of books on teacher effectiveness published by Solution Tree in 2015-2017 and What Makes a World-Class School and How We Can Get There published by ASCD in 2017. Currently, Dr. Xu is working as the Decision Analytics Researcher at the Virginia Department of Education.