Fern Westernoff is a speech-language pathologist with over 35 years of experience at the Toronto District School Board. She served on the Immigrant Assessment Team, which prompted her to pursue doctoral studies regarding  bilingualism and second language learning at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto.

Evan Robb is presently principal of Johnson-Williams Middle School in Berryville, Virginia. He has served for more than twenty years as a building-level principal. Prior to being a school principal, he was an English teacher, department chair, and assistant principal. Evan is a recipient of the Horace Mann Educator of the Year Award. In addition, the NCTE Commission on Reading selected him to serve on its national board.

Paula Markus served as the ESL/ELD Program Co-ordinator with the Toronto District School Board from 2001-2017.

Dr. Laura Baecher is Associate Professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in the School of Education at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has been a teacher and teacher educator for over 25 years, and her research relates to teacher preparation, teacher leadership, supervision, and the use of video for teacher learning.

Julia Briggs lives and works as a teacher in an international school in Bogotá, Colombia. She teaches Science and Chemistry and is the Head of IB Chemistry at Colegio Anglo Colombiano where she also works with departments and individual teachers as a coach and certified trainer of H. Lynn Erickson and Lois Lanning’s Concept Based Curriculum and Instruction.