Dr. Troy Hutchings is NASDTEC's Senior Policy Advisor in Educator Ethics.

Dr. Hutchings researches, writes and speaks in the areas of professional ethics, educator misconduct, and frameworks for an ethical teaching practice. He has presented to numerous state and national policy and practitioner audiences across the United States, Canada and Japan. Hutchings also provides expert witness testimony in judicial hearings, collaborates on policy initiatives with state, federal and provincial agencies, and was the subject matter expert for the Model Code of Ethics for Educators as well as numerous other national resources, projects and initiatives.  

Dr. Hutchings is the Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association for the State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC). He has a record of full-time teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities at the university level spanning 15 years, and has also served as a high school teacher, administrator and coach in public and private schooling environments for an additional 16 years. In addition, he spent four years conducting research, creating resources and developing thought-leadership capacity in educator ethics for a non-profit educational research and assessment organization.