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A Jersey City-based educator, writer, and adjunct professor, who promotes holistic literacy instruction and the value of family experiences in education, as highlighted in her book Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care. Drawing from her roles as a teacher, instructional coach, and daughter of immigrants, she collaborates with schools through NQC Literacy.
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An educator, author, and learning facilitator. Her most recent book, The Writing Teacher’s Guide to Pedagogical Documentation, recognized as a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association, explores how documenting learning processes can deepen understanding and improve writing instruction. Angela’s work emphasizes purposeful play, collaborative inquiry, and culturally sustaining practices.
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An Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas. Drawing on frameworks such as critical discourse analysis, feminist theories, and ecocriticism, Emma explores the intersections of social justice, eco-justice, and the potential of social and emotional learning to advance or hinder equity. Her work includes a “discourse community” approach to teacher PD, critical media analysis, and the development of podcast methodologies as transformative dialogue in education.
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An English educator, a teacher and an eternal student from North Texas. Her graduate work focuses on increasing access to dual credit and advanced academic opportunities for Black and Brown students. She is dedicated to mentoring new educators to make teaching sustainable and advocating for students’ rights through access diverse texts, affirming Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ student identities, and “being the teacher she needed.”
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A former high school English teacher and a current Ph.D. candidate in the Learning Sciences program at Northwestern University. Charles’ scholarship analyzes how power operates through technology, and he works alongside teachers and students to theorize and develop ways to resist, refuse, repurpose, and reimagine technologies towards ends that center care and collective flourishing.
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A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Bozeman, Montana.Maria taught in K - 12 and undergraduate classrooms throughout Montana for thirteen years before beginning mental health work with children, adults, and families. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students—And You.
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A former public school educator of 22 years who has spent the last 18 years helping school communities build capacity to navigate the disruptive contexts of our time and to “imagine harder” for a future we all want to live in. Most recently, he is the co-founder of the Big Questions Institute, and he is the author of Confronting Education in a Time of Complexity, Chaos, and Collapse: A Manifesto which he wrote to provoke conversations and action within schools to prepare children for the challenging future at our doorstep.
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An independent scholar whose work focuses on the history and politics of education technologies. She is the creator of the popular Hack Education website, currently the writer of the Second Breakfast newsletter, and author of Teaching Machines, which chronicles the century-old efforts to automate education.
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Shana Vidal White is the Director of CS Equity Initiatives at the Kapor Foundation, focusing on equitable K12 computer science programs like CSforAtlanta, CSforOakland, and CSforDetroit. She works to improve teacher professional development and increase participation for marginalized students in CS and STEAM. Shana authored the Responsible AI and Tech Justice Guide for K12 Education and co-created the Culturally Responsive Sustaining Computer Science Framework. With 16 years in K12 education as a teacher and instructional technology specialist in Atlanta, she holds a B.S. from Wake Forest University, an M.S. from Winthrop University, and an Ed.S from Kennesaw State University. She is deeply committed to justice and equity in education.
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