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Heise is a sixth-grade social studies teacher living in Utah and working toward a Ph.d in education, culture and society.

Ivankovic is a middle school language arts teacher in New Jersey. She spent this year as a class support teacher.

Teri Cettina is a freelance writer who writes frequently about education and parenting topics. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Aimee Young teaches in rural Ohio. She has studied in Poland and Israel, was awarded a teaching fellowship through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and earned the prestigious DisneyHAND American Teacher Award, given to just 38 teachers in the nation in 2004.

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.

Peggy Frezon is a freelance writer living in upstate New York. She also writes reading comprehension tests and tutors ESOL.

Brian Elliot recently graduated from Parkway School District in St. Louis, Mo., and is currently a freshman at Stanford University.

Sherry has been an educator for 39 years and currently serves as the student support leader at Iles School in Springfield, Illinois. Frachey became passionate about stress reduction and restorative justice practices in schools and now partners with the Memorial Medical Center Foundation and the Harvard School of Medicine’s Benson-Henry Mind/Body Institute to teach The Relaxation Response, a stress-reduction program that uses developmentally appropriate exercises for school-age children. Her work has been featured on Yoko Ono’s website IMAGINE PEACE, Everyone Matters and Free the Children.

Kelley Dawson Salas teaches fourth grade at La Escuela Fratney in Milwaukee, Wisc., and is an editor of Rethinking Schools.

Buchan is an intern with Teaching Tolerance. She recently graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a double major in Religion and Psychology.