Jody Guarino is Manager of the Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Leadership Collaborative at the Orange County Department of Education. She supports instructional coherence and continuous learning for educators at every level, from the classroom to the cabinet.

A deep respect for teachers and students drives the work of Dr. Lynsey Gibbons, who is a teacher educator and researcher in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her scholarship seeks to understand how teachers can be provided with rich opportunities to learn how to teach in ways that respond to children’s brilliance and position them as capable sensemakers. In her research, Gibbons seeks to explore teacher learning through an organizational and systems perspective with special attention to professional learning routines, the roles of instructional leaders such as principals and coaches, and the role of coherent learning events that occur within the system. She works alongside teachers to understand the interrelation of their instructional practices and school-wide efforts to support them. To that end, she has published articles and books related to designing for, facilitating, and examining teacher learning; specifying the practices of those who support teacher learning; and identifying tools and resources to support instructional leaders and teacher educators.