Sarah Connell Sanders has been a public school educator in Massachusetts for 13 years. She is currently the library media specialist at Burncoat Middle School in Worcester where she teaches in the gifted and talented program and spearheads community partnerships. In addition to her credentials as a school librarian, she is also a certified elementary teacher and secondary English teacher. She recently received her middle school Principal's License from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Her credentials include a B.A. English and Education from Fordham University, an M. Ed. Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, and an M. Ed. School Leadership and Administration from Worcester State University.

James M. Lang, Ph.D., is the author of six books, the most recent of which are Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2nd ed., 2021), Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It (2020), and Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (2013). Lang writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has conducted workshops on teaching for faculty at more than two hundred schools, colleges or universities in the United States and abroad, and consulted for the United Nations on the development of teaching materials in ethics and integrity in education. He has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in English from St. Louis University, and a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. You can follow him on Twitter at @LangOnCourse or learn more at http://jamesmlang.com.