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David O’Brien’s scholarship and teaching focus on the literacy practices of adolescents. He has studied how adolescents use literacy to learn content across the disciplines and also how their teachers learn to integrate literacy practices into various disciplines in middle and high school instruction. His research is collaborative, conducted within a community of practice with the intent of improving adolescents’ literacy skills and practices concurrently with improving their teachers’ abilities to meet the needs of a range of learners. In a recent project, he collaborated with colleagues at

Tom Owens, a children's book author living in Central Iowa, is a frequent contributor to Teaching Tolerance magazine.

Sam Chaltain is the coordinator of the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Schools Project in Arlington, Va.

Jeffrey Morgan is an English teacher at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

Chris Morton is the New York State Director of American Atheists, Inc., in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Sara Bullard, the founding director of Teaching Tolerance, is a free-lance writer based in New York City.

Jaime Diego Chavez is a counselor and peer mediation teacher at Lawndale High School in Lawndale, Calif.

Barrett is a journalist living in New York City and has aspirations of becoming an ESL teacher.

Andrea Bittle is an educator in Chapel Hill, NC. She teaches and writes from Durham, NC.

Joe Hansen is a freelance writer based in Portland, OR, where he lives with his partner and their spoiled yellow Lab, Charlie. He holds an M.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon and has been a writer, editor and newsroom jack-of-all-trades for newspapers, magazines and web publications since 2005.