Before joining the WSJ, Stephanie worked as an education reporter with a number of other papers, including the Chicago Tribune, the Charlotte Observer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Salt Lake Tribune. She has won numerous awards for her work including a first-place EWA award for her magazine profile of a father struggling with the care and education of his children and the same award in 2004 for a three-part series on a student transferring schools as part of the No Child Left Behind law. In addition to writing for the WSJ, she is currently the president of the Education Writers Association.

Carol is the best-selling author of Theories of Childhood, Theories of Attachment, Use Your Words, and Swinging Pendulums.

Jessica has served as an elementary school principal in rural Wisconsin since 2008-2009. Prior to that she worked as an assistant principal, instructional coach and teacher in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a teacher in northern MN.

Nancy is an education writer and consultant focusing on teacher leadership. She spent 30 years in a K-12 music classroom in Hartland, Michigan, and was named Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1993. She is National Board-certified, and a member of the Teacher Leaders Network. She is a digital organizer for IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America).

David Bloomfield, Esq. is Professor of Educational Leadership, Law, and Policy at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, where he is founding Chair of the Dept. of Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education and former Program Head of Educational Leadership.

Sandra spent 7 years in the political and public policy realm before joining the world of association management. She has served as CAEYC executive director for 5 years.

Suzanne is the author of Building Brains: 600 Activity Ideas for Young Children and of many articles that have been published in a variety of early childhood journals. She also volunteers her time playing the guitar, singing with children, and telling stories at preschool programs. With a master's degree in special education, Suzanne taught both hearing impaired and typically developing young children for over forty years, directed a NAEYC-accredited child care program for seventeen years, and is past president of the Sarasota Early Childhood Association, the Early Childhood Association of Florida, and the Southern Early Childhood Association.

A former public school educator for 22 years, Will is co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice (plpnetwork.com), a unique professional development program that has mentored over 5,000 teachers worldwide in the last five years. His second and third books are Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education and Learning on the Blog. Over the past six years, he's spoken to and worked with tens of thousands of educators in over a dozen countries about the merits of online learning networks for personal and professional growth.He's a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation, and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine.

Jane is the author of Under Deadman’s Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children’s Violent Play, They Don’t Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom, and Far Away from the Tigers: A Year in the Classroom with Internationally Adopted Children . She has presented lectures and workshops at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Tufts University, Wheelock College, and Lesley College; and her classroom has been featured in several articles as well as radio and television specials on the subject of early childhood education, including the PBS special "Raising Cain."

Jesse is a public high school teacher in Seattle. He is a contributing author to Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation and 101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History (Haymarket Books). He serves on the Board of Directors of Maha-Lilo—“Many Hands, Light Load”—a Haiti solidarity organization.