Dr. Steven Snead joined the MAC Board of Directors in 2017 and contributes to the Assessment Resource Development Committee.
Dr. Snead serves as the Supervisor of the Curriculum & Assessment Unit at Oakland Schools Intermediate School District. In this role, he leads a team of Education Services Consultants, Specialists, and Project Assistants to provide educators across the 28 districts and 24 Public School Academies of Oakland County with professional learning, resource development, and consultation to support deep learning for all students. Signature projects of his team include the MAISA Units of Instruction, Project Literacy Essentials Oakland, Renaissance DnA, the Atlas Curriculum Management System, Math Recovery, and Multi-Tiered Systems of Student Support (MTSS). He also leads the Oakland Schools Research, Evaluation, and Assessment team, which provides assessment development and data analysis support to all county educators.
Outside of Oakland Schools, Dr. Snead is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Michigan Assessment Consortium, helping to promote assessment literacy across the state of Michigan. He is also on the Executive Planning Committee of the Michigan School Testing Conference and the Building a Better Assessment Future Conference. He’s given numerous local, statewide, and national presentations on assessment focused practices, including district assessment design, formative assessment, MTSS, educator evaluation, and equitable assessment practices. Nationally, he has presented at the National Blue Ribbon Schools Conference, the National Conference on Student Assessment, 2025 Reidy Interactive Learning Series from the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. Dr. Snead was also recently appointed by the Farmington City Council to serve a 4 year term on the board of trustees for the Farmington Community Library.
Dr. Snead is a proud graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Wayne State University, and a Doctor of Education degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri. The focus of his doctoral research was exploring the utility of interim benchmark assessment data in classroom teacher instructional decision-making.
Why Steven serves as a MAC Board Member: “In a world full of testing, assessment literacy can be a compass to help navigate the waters of deep, enduring student learning and well-being. When we empower students, families, educators, and policy makers to become assessment literate, we can and will deliver on the promise of high-quality learning for all students.”