Roxann Kriete taught at both the elementary and secondary levels during her thirty-five-year career in education. She began working at Northeast Foundation for Children (now Center for Responsive Schools) in 1985, retiring in 2011 after…
Susan Lattanzi Roser has been an educator since 1983. She taught pre-K through third grade for fifteen years, including in university lab school and magnet school settings. At the college level, Susan has taught courses…
With over twenty years of elementary school experience in both urban and suburban classrooms, Jodie Luongo is currently a math specialist for grades K–5 in the Connecticut public schools. A transplant from the business world…
Larissa Marantz is a children’s book illustrator and animator. After working as an animation artist on the Nickelodeon television shows Rugrats and Rocket Power, she illustrated a dozen books for Simon & Schuster and Random…
Caitie Meehan has been teaching for almost fifteen years and is currently a fourth grade math teacher in Washington, DC. She has experience teaching in Title I schools and has seen how the benefits of…
Ian Moore is an illustrator/ designer living in Baltimore, Maryland, who currently works at Mashable as an editorial illustrator. Clients include Mashable, PCMag, BlackFriday.com, AskMen, the Stanford d.school, and Adventure Time/BOOM! Studios.
Andy Moral is a fourth grade teacher at Sol Feinstone Elementary School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He has fifteen years of classroom experience, teaching all subjects in various intermediate grades. Andy, a certified Responsive Classroom…
Emily Parrelli is a middle school English teacher and Responsive Classroom instructional coach in Nashville-area independent schools. She loves being a part of her students’ journey as they cross the bridge that is middle school.
Prior to becoming Chief Programs Officer for Responsive Classroom at Center for Responsive Schools, Karen was a Responsive Classroom Curriculum & Instructional Designer, and Consulting Teacher, working with educators worldwide to transform their school communities.…
Joan Riordan began her career as an educator in 1990 after a brief time in the financial world. She has been teaching kindergarten ever since. Joan is a team leader, cooperating teacher, and mentor for…
