Licensed and Board-Certified Behavior Analyst; Special Educator; Consultant; Blogger, The Huffington Post; Author, “Helping Anxious Kids Move Forward” (2017, Educational Leadership), The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students With Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (2014), and “Building Positive Relationships With Students Struggling With Mental Health” (2019, Phi Delta Kappan); Co-Author, "A Skill-Building Approach to Reducing Student’s Anxiety and Challenging Behavior" (2022, Phi Delta Kappan) and The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students (2012)

Educational Neuroscientist; Former Lecturer and Science of Learning Research Scientist, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne; Director, LME Global; Director, The Science of Learning Group; Honorary Research Fellow, St. Vincent's Hospital; Author, Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick (2019); Co-Author, 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (2020), Learning Analytics in the Classroom (2018), and From Laboratory to Classroom: Translating Science of Learning for Teachers (2016)

Educational Neuroscientist; Former Lecturer and Science of Learning Research Scientist, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne; Director, LME Global; Director, The Science of Learning Group; Honorary Research Fellow, St. Vincent's Hospital; Author, Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick (2019); Co-Author, 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (2020), Learning Analytics in the Classroom (2018), and From Laboratory to Classroom: Translating Science of Learning for Teachers (2016)

Professor of Psychological Science, Northern Arizona University; Author, The Attention Spectrum: How Attention Really Works and How to Make It Work for You (Upcoming), A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student's Names (2024), Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (2022), and Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology (2016)

Licensed and Board-Certified Behavior Analyst; Special Educator; Consultant; Blogger, The Huffington Post; Author, “Helping Anxious Kids Move Forward” (2017, Educational Leadership), The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students With Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (2014), and “Building Positive Relationships With Students Struggling With Mental Health” (2019, Phi Delta Kappan); Co-Author, "A Skill-Building Approach to Reducing Student’s Anxiety and Challenging Behavior" (2022, Phi Delta Kappan) and The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students (2012)

Professor of Human Development, Emerita, University of Maryland; Editor, Educational Psychologist; Author, Social and Emotional Learning (2025), Motivating Students to Learn (2020, 4th Edition); Co-Author, “Peer and Teacher Supports in Relation to Motivation and Effort: A Multi-level Study” (2017, Contemporary Educational Psychology), Handbook of Motivation at School (2016, 2nd edition), and Social Influences on Social-Emotional, Motivation, and Cognitive Outcomes in School Contexts (2016)

Director of Education, Steplab; Advisor, Department for Education; Former Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Brighton; Former Dean of Learning Design, Ambition Institute; Author, Developing Expert Teaching: What Expertise Is, and How to Develop It (in Ourselves and in Others) (2022), Motivated Teaching: Harnessing the Science of Motivation to Boost Attention and Effort in the Classroom (2020), Memorable Teaching: Leveraging Memory to Build Deep and Durable Learning in the Classroom (2017), and Lean Lesson Planning: A Practical Guide to Doing Less and Achieving More in the Classroom (2015)

Thomas More Brennan Chair; Research Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College; Visiting Professor, Director of Change, Engagement and Innovation in Education, University of Ottawa; Honored with the “Horace Mann” Award in the US, the “Robert Owen” Award in Scotland for services to public education, and the “Excellence in Teaching With Technology” Award from Boston College; Elected President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement and Elected Member of the National Academy of Education; Author, Leadership From the Middle (2023); Co-Author, The Age of Identity (2023), Well-Being in Schools (2021), Five Paths to Student Engagement (2021), Teaching in the Knowledge Society (2016), Professional Capital (2013), and The Global Fourth Way (2012)

Education and Human Development, Boston College; Senior Advisor, International Movement Towards Educational Change (IMTEC); Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany; Author, The New Imperatives of Educational Change (2017); Co-Author, Well-Being in Schools (2021), Five Paths to Student Engagement (2021), The Mindful Teacher (2016), and The Global Fourth Way (2012)

Educational Consultant; Former Teacher and Literacy Instructor; Former Program Developer, Northeast Foundation for Children; Author, Rekindle Your Professional Fire (2024), Tackling the Motivation Crisis (2021), and What We Say and How We Say it Matters: Teacher Talk That Improves Student Learning and Behavior (2019)

Thomas More Brennan Chair; Research Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College; Visiting Professor, Director of Change, Engagement and Innovation in Education, University of Ottawa; Honored with the “Horace Mann” Award in the US, the “Robert Owen” Award in Scotland for services to public education, and the “Excellence in Teaching With Technology” Award from Boston College; Elected President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement and Elected Member of the National Academy of Education; Author, Leadership From the Middle (2023); Co-Author, The Age of Identity (2023), Well-Being in Schools (2021), Five Paths to Student Engagement (2021), Teaching in the Knowledge Society (2016), Professional Capital (2013), and The Global Fourth Way (2012)

Education and Human Development, Boston College; Senior Advisor, International Movement Towards Educational Change (IMTEC); Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany; Author, The New Imperatives of Educational Change (2017); Co-Author, Well-Being in Schools (2021), Five Paths to Student Engagement (2021), The Mindful Teacher (2016), and The Global Fourth Way (2012)

Professor of Evidence-Informed Education Leadership, Academica University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam; Lecturer and Former Director of Practice at Research Schools International, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Former Director of Impact Academy, Deans for Impact; Leading Advocate for bridging the worlds of research and practice in education; Co-Author, Mental Models: How Understanding the Mind Can Transform the Way You Work and Learn (Forthcoming) and How Teaching Happens: Seminal Works in Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness and What They Mean in Practice (2022)

Founder and Executive Director, COGX, a research and development firm in applied cognitive science; Former Founding Director, FUNIDES, a think tank to advance social policy for modernizing education; Co-Author of a series of online graduate level courses on the science of learning for educators titled "Developing Sophisticated Learners"