Dave Gaston

Term ends 12/31/2028

Williamsburg, Virginia

Dr. David W. Gaston is the President and CEO of Gaston Educational Consulting, LLC, a Virginia-based educational consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, executive coaching, organizational dynamics and leadership training, grant writing, support, and review, curriculum and instruction support and private-public sector partnerships. He is also a partner and Chief Operating Officer of Gaston-Shaffer, LLC, a firm that also focuses on strategic planning and grant writing work His firms have state, national, and international scope and clients. 

His educational career has seen him serve as a classroom teacher, elementary, middle, and high school assistant principal and principal and central office administrator with the three school divisions on the Virginia Peninsula. He was named the Division Superintendent for Charles City Public Schools in Charles City VA in 2014 and served the Charles City County community in this capacity until 2020, when he retired after 30 years of public service. 

Dr. Gaston holds B.A, M.A.Ed., and Ed.D. degrees from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Darden School of Education at Old Dominion University, where he has facilitated undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level courses in Educational Leadership Studies and Teaching and Learning for the past 18 years. His work in education also extended to training and consulting with the International Baccalaureate of the Americas (IBA) for 18 years, establishing the first and fifth elementary school Primary Years Programme (PYP) sites in Virginia.  He has worked with schools across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe as an independent education consultant.