Kristin Van Marter Souers is a licensed mental-health clinician and has more than 30 years of experience teaching, coaching, training, and consulting in a multitude of settings. She is the lead author (with Pete Hall) of two revolutionary, bestselling ASCD books on childhood trauma and stress: Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom and Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners. She is also the author of the first in a series of children’s books to come: 10 Things Our Brains Need.

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.