Susan Zelman

Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ohio Department of Education

Phone: 614-995-1985

Email: susan.zelman@ode.state.oh.us

Area of Expertise: Academic standards, strengthening schools and school districts with fiscal and human resources and improving student performance through accountability.

Susan Tave Zelman, superintendent of public instruction for Ohio since 1999, is working to raise expectations for all students by setting clear and high academic standards, strengthening schools and school districts with fiscal and human resources and improving student performance through accountability. Under her leadership, the Ohio Department of Education created a mission for the state's educational system that has brought sweeping change through standards-based reform. Ohio now has academic content standards in English language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, technology, foreign language and the arts. Before coming to Ohio, Dr. Zelman was Deputy Commissioner of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 1994 to 1999.