Carol Cummings conducts workshops for parents and teachers throughout the world on motivation, social skills, effective teaching, reading and writing strategies, classroom management, and managing diverse classrooms. She has taught in the classroom, conducted research on at-risk learners, and written more 15 books for teachers and children. Her first two books, Teaching Makes a Difference and Managing to Teach, have sold more than 250,000 copies. Her children's series, The Get Alongs, is used to teach social-emotional skills to young children throughout the United States. Cummings teaches for both the University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University. Her doctorate is in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Washington.