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Mark Coleman has been a teacher with Montgomery Public Schools for more than a decade. Most of that time was as a technology coordinator. Besides teaching social studies in a paperless environment, he’s taught web development, Adobe photoshop, Adobe flash and sound recording. A long-time evangelist for the power of new media and social networking tools, he strives to bring the power of user/student-related content into the classroom. He was named the 2011 winner of Alabama’s Marbury award for technology innovation in the classroom. He has presented at conferences for Alabama Educational

Jim is an experienced writer and the former head of a school counseling department in a school with a high immigrant population. He has written for the Washington Post, USA Today Weekend, Parent magazine, Baltimore Magazine, Hopkins magazine, Washingtonian and a number of other national education publications.

Dr. Paul Roud is a clinical psychologist and adjustment counselor. He draws on humanistic psychological principles and proven mindfulness techniques in his work as an educational consultant. His best selling book, Making Miracles, tells the story of 11 individuals who triumphed over devastating illnesses.

Joanna is a 2014 graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was the spring 2014 editor of the College Heights Herald. She is also the former new media associate for Teaching Tolerance. Williams is currently an Emerson Congressional Hunger Fellow in Washington, D.C.

Cory is an author and journalist and a former senior writer for Learning for Justice. He has experience in both the newsroom—as a former sports journalist—and the classroom, where he has provided reading intervention and tutoring for K–6 students from rural Kentucky to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Kim has been at the Woodstown School District in many capacities for the last 11 years. Kim started as a high school mathematics teacher and then worked as an elementary school counselor before taking her current position as the school counselor for Woodstown Middle School.

Robert Slavin is co-director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk at Johns Hopkins University and chairman of the Success for All Foundation. Slavin has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and 15 books, including Educational Psychology: Theory into Practice, School and Classroom Organization, Effective Programs for Students at Risk, Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice, Preventing Early School Failure and Show Me the Evidence: Proven and Promising Programs for America's Schools. A longtime advocate of cooperative learning, he is a co

Orrin Konheim is a Virginia-based freelance journalist and writer specializing in community, human interest and film/TV reporting. His publication credits include AOL Patch News (the Washington D.C. affiliate of NBC News), the Richmond Times Dispatch, Washington City Paper, Mental Floss magazine, Nostalgia Digest Magazine and the Santa Barbara Independent.

Matt is a freelance writer and editor in Healdsburg, California. He has penned pieces for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, AFAR, Travel + Leisure and Sunset. He is also involved with anti-hate journalism project 500 Pens. Learn more about him at whalehead.com.

Joyce L. Epstein is director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships principal research scientist in the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She has over 100 publications on the organization and effects of school, classroom, family and peer environments, with many focused on school, family and community connections. In 1995, she established the National Network of Partnership Schools to demonstrate the important intersections of research, policy, and practice for school