Kathleen Palmer Cleveland is president and CEO of TeacherOnlineEducation.com. During the last 20 years of her 30-year career in education, she has designed, written, developed, and produced content, materials, and graphic art for more than 30 graduate-level site-based and online courses for K–12 teachers. As a former K–12 teacher and longtime instructor of practicing educators, she works with universities and colleges across the United States to meet mid-continuum professional educators' needs for rigorous courses that speak to both the teacher's need for practical relevance and the profession's need for research-based best practices.