Linda Darling-Hammond

CEO of Learning Policy Institute & Founder of the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Leader of President Obama’s Education Policy Transition Team

Robyn Jackson

Founder of Mindsteps Inc.; Expert on Helping Educators Use the Tools They Have to Build Better Schools

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Former Juvenile Court Judge & Star of "Judge Hatchett" and "The Verdict"

Afrika Afeni Mills

Anti-Bias, Antiracist, Pro-Human Mindset Advocate; Expert on Inclusion & Belonging; Education Consultant and Author of "Open Windows, Open Minds"

Dr. Sharroky Hollie

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Karen L. Mapp

Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Faculty Director of the Education Policy & Management Master's Program

Cynthia Germanotta

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health

Cynthia Germanotta - Psych Hub Podcast

Temple Grandin

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

TEMPLE GRANDIN on the Three Kinds of Kids

Willard Daggett, Ed.D.

Founder & Chairman of the International Center for Leadership in Education

Melissa L. Cooper

Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark; Author of "Making Gullah" & African American History Expert

Mark Perna

Founder & CEO of Tools For Schools

Kandice Sumner

Public School Educator & TED Speaker; Consultant on Race, Education, Gender and Equity

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

Chase Mielke

Award-Winning Educator & Blogger; Creator of a Positive Psychology Program Teaching Topics like Optimism, Grit, & Accomplishment to At-Risk Students

Lisa Delpit

Educationalist, Author, Eminent Scholar & Former Executive Director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University

Dr. Brenda Combs, Ed.D.

Ambassador of Inspiration

Kerry Leo

Founder of DaVinci Education & Research

Carol A. Tomlinson

Educator, Author, Speaker & Advocate for Differentiated Instruction; Focused on Meeting Students' Individual Needs in Education

Dr. Allen Mendler

Educator and School Psychologist

Dr. Kevin Feldman

Emeritus Director of Reading and Intervention with the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE)

Stuart Ablon

Director of Think:Kids in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Jack Trammell

Jack Trammell is Associate Professor of Sociology and disability expert, as well as historian and writer. He specializes in exceptionality, Otherness, folklore, disability policy, and social history.

Juliana Urtubey

2021 National Teacher of the Year

Willie D. Spears Jr.

The decisions you make today will determine your life tomorrow.

Hannah Bricker

Inclusive Education Advocate, Program Director at The Rise School of Austin & Co-Founder of Teaching2gether

Simon Breakspear

Executive Director of Agile Schools; Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales

Katrina Ayres

Author, Classroom Management Specialist, Teacher Trainer

Thomas Armstrong

Award-winning author of 14 books including 7 Kinds of Smart, In Their Own Way, and You're Smarter Than You Think

Carol Tolman

International Literacy Consultant

Laurie Hinzman

Educator and Leadership Coach; Author of "Leadership- The Heart Matters"