Pete Hall is an award-winning school principal and author or co-author of 12 books, including Fostering Resilient Learners and Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation with Kristin Van Marter Souers and his recent social psychology life guide, Always Strive to Be a Better You: How Ordinary People Can Live Extraordinary Lives.

He is also co-author, with Kristin Van Marter Souers and Keith Orchard, of The Fostering Resilience Workbook: Strategies and Steps to Support Our Learners, Elementary Edition. He has worked in education for 30 years and provided professional development support to educators across the globe.

School-turnaround specialist and veteran educator Alisa Simeral guides school-based reform efforts as a teacher leader, instructional coach, school administrator, professional developer, and instructional leadership consultant, promoting her mantra, "When our teachers succeed, our students succeed." She supports educational organizations worldwide in their efforts to shift from cultures of compliance to cultures of commitment.

Simeral's resolve to help schools develop cultures of reflective practice is a major focus of her research, writing, speaking, and teaching. Her emphasis is, and always has been, improving the adult-input factors that contribute to the betterment of the student-output results. Simeral is coauthor of numerous books, including several bestsellers. Her most recent include Pursuing Greatness; Empowering Teachers to Take Charge of Their Professional Growth, Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: Capacity-Building for Schoolwide Success, and The Principal Influence: A Framework for Developing Leadership Capacity in Principals.