Anne Murray-Orr is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. She teaches language and literacy courses in the B. Ed. and graduate education programs at St FX. Her current research is in the areas of disciplinary literacy, early elementary pedagogy, and pre- and in-service teacher education.

Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. Her research program and method of narrative inquiry are intricately interwoven, publishing and fostering deeper understanding in areas of: poverty, literacy, mental health, equity, diversity, and curriculum. She is widely published and has received the Early Career Award of the Narrative Research Special Interest Group AERA, the Award for Excellence in Teaching at Faculty of Education at Brock University, and the Brock University Award for Distinguished Teaching. Ciuffetelli Parker was a school administrator, literacy consultant, and teacher in Toronto before joining Brock University.

Cal Hauserman is a researcher and consultant. He provides support to schools and districts in the areas of collaboration, classroom management, and differentiated instruction. His current research interests are in cognitive coaching, adaptive schools and transformational leadership. He may be contacted at calhauserman.com.

University of Alberta

Todd Rogers is Professor Emeritus in the Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation. His research interests are in large-scale assessments, ethics in testing, psychometrics, and program evaluation.

University of British Columbia

Dr. Jason Ellis is a historian of education and assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. His publications on the history of Canadian schooling, mainly focusing on special education, include a forthcoming book A Class by Themselves?: Children, Youth, and Special Education in a North American City—Toronto, 1910–45 (University of Toronto Press, 2018).

At the time the Leader 2 Leader Program was completed, Jacqueline Skytt was the Assistant Executive Secretary of the Alberta Teachers’ Association. Her portfolio included professional development programming for school administrators across Alberta. Her research interest was to evaluate Cognitive Coaching as a peer coaching strategy to support leadership development in school principals new to their role. Jacqueline holds an MSc, Curriculum and Instructional Leadership from the University of Oregon, a PDAD, Secondary Education and a BSc, Home Economics from the University of Alberta. Jacqueline recently retired from the Alberta Teachers’ Association and now works as a professional development consultant.

Western University

Dr. Alan Leschied is a Psychologist and Professor in the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at the Faculty of Education at Western University. In 2004, he received a life-time achievement award through the Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Psychology Association, and in 2009 the Bishop Cody Award by the National St. Leonard’s Society for contribution to community corrections. His current research interests are reflected in the following books: Everybody’s Children: Proceedings of the Western University Forum on School-based Mental Health (2013), and Serious and Violent Young Offenders and Youth Criminal Justice: A Canadian Perspective (2014).

Western University

Dr. Susan Rodger is a Psychologist and Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at the Faculty of Education at Western University, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children, and the Centre for School-Based Mental Health. She works within the education and child welfare systems to enhance awareness and capacity with respect to both adult and child mental health. Her research interests include barriers to mental health treatment, mental health literacy for teachers, teacher candidates and foster care providers, the influence of exposure to violence on learning, inclusive education and outcome measurement.

Western University

Dr. Kathy Hibbert is an Associate Professor of Education at Western University’s Faculty of Education, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum as a Social Practice, and a Centre Researcher at the Schulich School of Medicine’s Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI). Her research interests lie in looking at policies/decisions/practices surrounding learning environments that engage teachers’ intellectual curiosity in ways that create rich learning environments for both teachers and students.

Western University

Mary Ott is a former elementary Special Education Teacher now pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies at Western University, with research interests in formative assessment and multiliteracies. She is co-chair of Western’s Robert Macmillan Research in Education Symposium, and co-chair of the graduate committee for the Language and Literacies Researchers of Canada. She was drawn to the Teach Resiliency project by the opportunity to counter stress in the profession by engaging productively with education colleagues to understand and develop supports for growing resiliency in schools