Shirley Clair McCall was an educator with the District of Columbia Public Schools for 42 years, teaching mathematics and computer science at the junior and senior high school levels and serving as a computer technology coordinator.  She recently retired in June 2016 as the Founding Director of the Transportation STEM (TransSTEM) Academy at Cardozo Education Campus--a program designed to impart the values of higher education, constructive employment and careers in the various modes of transportation.

TransSTEM (formerly TransTech) Academy was established in 1991 as the first transportation studies academy in the Washington Metropolitan area.  The program is designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace and currently features three programs of study: computer science, engineering and electro-mechanical technology training.  This high school was the first in the Metropolitan area to have a FLEX-ACE Lab that was established through a partnership with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and includes state of the art computers, flight simulators and a miniature Air Traffic Control tower.  Nearly 800 students have completed the program, and 85% have gone on to college, 7% to the military and 8% to work.  

Mrs. McCall also served  from 1995–2012 as the school-based project manager for the Transportation Training Project for High School Students, a cooperative agreement between the Federal Transit Administration and the D. C. Public School System, with funding from the Federal Highway Administration.  

She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Highly Effective Educator Award (2010-2016), the National Aeronautic Association's Frank G. Brewer Trophy, the National Association of Black Women in Construction (NABWIC) Visionary Leadership Award (2013), Transportation Research Board Sharon Banks Award, the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) Salute to Women in Transportation Award, the Cafritz Foundation Fellowship, the GTE Growth Initiative for Teachers Fellowship, Outstanding Teacher Award for Region C, Save Our Youth America Outstanding Teacher Award, Ward One Council on Education Outstanding Teacher Award, Principal’s Outstanding Service Award, the Washington Post Mini-Grant Award and the Delta Kappa Gamma Nu State Teacher Award.  

She received her Bachelors degree from Trinity College in Washington, DC and her Masters degree from Howard University.  Mrs. McCall has one son, Marcus.