David F. Cihak, Ph.D. is the University of Tennessee’s Associate Dean of Professional Educator Licensure and Director of the Bailey Graduate School of Education. David oversees 100+ educator licensure endorsement programs and 130+ school district partnerships across Tennessee and the nation. He has led the development of multiple innovative, flexible program options for anyone, anywhere, and at every stage of life who aspires to become a licensed Tennessee educator, including Grow Your Own in 2020. As a professor of special education, his research focuses on effective instructional and positive behavioral strategies, particularly the use of video, augmented, context-aware, and mobile technologies to enhance educational, vocational, and social-communicative outcomes for adolescents and young adults with intellectual disabilities and autism in both classroom and community settings. As one of the primary investigators of the FUTURE program, he developed UT’s post-secondary education program for college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.