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 Lucy Calkins, author of ten books including The Art of Teaching Reading, The Art of Teaching Writing, and Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide is Professor of Curriculum and Teaching and the Founding Director of The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. The Project is both a think-tank, developing state-of-the-art methods, and a provider of professional development for hundreds of schools. As the leader of this world-renowned organization, Lucy works closely with superintendents, district leaders and school principals to re-imagine what is possible when school leadership is closely aligned with professional development. She, meanwhile, also works closely with particular teachers and their vibrant, quirky classes full of children. This series of books grows especially out of Lucy's work with a handful of her staff, and with a small cadre of New York City's teachers who joined her in a year-long study group in primary writing. (Author of The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing and the Co-Author of all seven Units of Study, The Conferring Handbook, and Resources for Primary Writing: CD-ROM of supporting print and video material)
 Before her life as a kindergarten teacher at PS 116, Zoë Ryder White served as a writer-in-residence through the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in nearly 25 public schools throughout New York City. Her experience teaching creative writing in the complex, varied and lively classrooms of New York led Zoë, after finishing her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, to obtain her MA in Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College. She was lucky to study with Lucy Calkins, and to student teach with both Abby Oxenhorn, author of the Small Moments book, and Emily Smith, now a Reading and Writing Project Staff Developer. Zoë and her husband have (temporarily) relocated to Cape Town, South Africa this August, where she plans to continue teaching, researching and writing. (Co-Author of The Conferring Handbook)
 As a staff developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Amanda Hartman has helped a dozen large urban schools establish state-of-the art reading and writing workshops across every grade-level. The principals and teachers who study with Amanda win accolades, and their schools are widely visited as models for standards-based reading and writing instruction at its best. Amanda's own teaching experience was as a dual language teacher at P.S. 165 in Manhattan. A passionate advocate of social justice, Amanda has traveled widely across Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, and she draws on her travels, her teaching, her school reform and her work on behalf of social causes when she speaks at conferences and universities across the country. (Co-Author of Authors as Mentors and The Conferring Handbook)
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