STEPHEN CHIGER is Senior Director of 5-12 Humanities at Uncommon Schools. Named the 2015 Educator of the Year by the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, he has helped thousands of educators strengthen evidence-based literacy instruction across the United States and internationally.

PAUL BAMBRICK-SANTOYO is Founder and Dean of the Leverage Leadership Institute, where 100,000 school leaders have been trained worldwide, including hundreds of schools that have gone on to become the highest-gaining or highest-achieving schools in their districts, states and/or countries.