Teacher, North Central Parke Schools; Blogger, Ditch That Textbook; Author, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future (2023), Do More With Google Classroom: Teach Better. Save Time. Make a Difference (2020), Tech Like a PIRATE: Using Classroom Technology to Create an Experience and Make Learning Memorable (2020), Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom (2015); Co-Author, DON'T Ditch That Tech: Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World (2019) and Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete (2017)

Professor of Education, Columbia University; Director, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching; Former Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Author, The Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict (2021) and Managing to Change: How Schools Can Survive (and Sometimes Thrive) in Turbulent Times (2009)

Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar; Associate Professor of Management; Academic Director, Wharton Interactive, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI (Forthcoming); Co-Author, “Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts” (2023, Wharton School Research Paper) and “Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students, With Prompts” (2023, arXiv)

Chief Executive Officer, Developing Minds, Inc.; Former Executive Director of Professional Development, DeKalb County School System; Author, Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They're Learning? (2024, Updated Edition), Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms (2022), Preparing Children for Success in School and Life (2022, 2nd Edition), and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning - K-8 (2019); Editor, Engaging the Brain: 20 Unforgettable Strategies for Growing Dendrites and Accelerating Learning (2024)

Superintendent of Schools, Fair Play R-II School District; Adjunct Professor, School of Education, Regent University; Blogger, the “@DavidGeurin” Blog; Named the 2017 “Digital Principal of the Year” by the National Association of Secondary School Principals; Former Principal of Bolivar High School; Author, Future Driven: Will Your Students Thrive in an Unpredictable World? (2017)

Principal/Lead Learner, Havelock Middle School, Craven County Schools; Named the 2014 “National Digital Principal” by the National Association of Secondary School Principals; Recognized as a “Top 25 NC Educators to Follow” and “30 Edu-Tweeters To Follow”; Co-Author, The Revolution: It’s Time to Empower Change in Our Schools (2019); Contributing Author, 10 Perspectives on Learning in Education (2020)

Educational Consultant; Former Social Studies Teacher and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Services; Former Professor of Education, Temple University; Member of the ASCD Understanding by Design (UbD) Cadre and ASCD UbD Faculty; Author, Teaching for Lifelong Learning: How to Prepare Students for a Changing World (2021); Contributing Co-Author, 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn (2010)

Educator; Attorney; Founder and CEO, ThinkLaw, multi-award-winning organization to help educators leverage inquiry-based instructional strategies to close the critical thinking gap and ensure they teach and reach all students; a fervent critical thinking advocate; Contributor, Forbes, The 74, Edutopia, and Education Post; Author, Tangible Equity: A Guide for Leveraging Student Identity, Culture, and Power to Unlock Excellence In and Beyond the Classroom (2022) and Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students (2020)

Co-Founder and President, Institute for Humane Education; Author, The Solutionary Way (Forthcoming), The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries (2021), Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life (2009), The Power and Promise of Humane Education (2004), and Above All, Be Kind (2003)

Professor, Media Technology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University; Human Development and Professor, Communication Studies, University of Michigan; Author, Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter (2023) and The Digital Difference: Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects (2016)

International Speaker, Educator, and Consultant; Former Director of Gifted Programs; Author, “Enhancing Social-Emotional Learning With Self-Regulation for Learning” (2019, Free Spirit Publishing Blog), Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century (2017), and Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn (2016); Co-Author, Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics (2013)

Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University; Author, Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential (2023), “AI Can’t Teach Children to Learn: What’s Missing?” (2023, The Washington Post), “DNA Tests for Intelligence Ignore the Real Reasons Why Kids Succeed or Fail” (2019, Leaps.org), and Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics (2018)

CEO, Dissertation Research Specialist; Adjunct Instructor, Colorado Christian University; Former Director of Applied Doctoral Research, Liberty University; Co-Author, A Step-By-Step Guide to Conducting Applied Research in Education (2021) and Mind Over Matter: Critical Thinking Skills (2022)

Consultant, Director, teacherhead-consulting; Blogger, teacherhead.com; Expert in the science of learning; Author, Rosenshine's Principles in Action (2019), The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching in Real Classrooms (2017), and Teach Now! Science: The Joy of Teaching Science (2014); Co-Author, Teaching WalkThrus: Five-Step Guides for Instructional Coaching (2020)

Senior Research Fellow, Learning Policy Institute, Stanford University; Former Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard University; Former Co-Director, Change Leadership Group, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Board Member, Mastery Transcript Consortium and Better World Ed; Education Advisor to the documentary, Most Likely to Succeed; Author, Mastery: The Future of Learning in Schools and the Workplace (Upcoming 2024), Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education (2020); Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (2012), and The Global Achievement Gap (2014); Co-Author, Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era (2015)

Morgan Distinguished Professor of Educational Innovations, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; One of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity who studies jazz ensembles, improvisational theater groups, children at play, and more effective learning environments; Author, Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (2022, 3rd Edition), The Creative Classroom: Innovative Teaching for 21st-Century Learners (2019), "Fostering Creative Performance in Art and Design Education via Self-Regulated Learning" (2019, Instructional Science), Group Genius (2017), Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity (2013), and Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (2012); Editor, Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching (2011)

Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Education; Formerly served as the Julian C. Stanley Endowed Professor of Talent Development, Johns Hopkins University; Co-Author, A Perspective on K-12 AI Education (2022, Technology & Innovation), Excellence Gaps in Education (2016), and Intelligence 101 (2013); Co-Editor, Creativity and Innovation (2021, 2nd Edition)

Neuroscientist; E. Paul Torrance Professor, Department of Educational Psychology; Director, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development; Director, Creativity and Imagination Lab; Faculty, Institute for Artificial Intelligence; University of Georgia; Neuroscience Faculty Member, Integrated Life Science Program; Affiliate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research; Editor, Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination; Author, The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths (forthcoming), "The Ingredients of the Creative Mind" (2021, American Journal of Psychology); The Neuroscience of Creativity (2018); Co-Author, "Evaluating the Effects of Episodic and Semantic Memory Induction Procedures on Divergent Thinking in Younger and Older Adults" (2023, PLoS ONE)

Professor of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut; Renowned Expert on Creativity; Winner of the Mensa’s Research Award, the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children’s International Creativity Award and APA’s Berlyne, Arnheim, and Farnsworth awards; Author, The Creativity Advantage (2023), Creativity and Mental Health (2017), and Creativity 101 (2016, 2nd Edition); Co-Author, Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters (2023); Co-Editor, the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (2019, 2nd Edition)

Vice-President, Curiosity 2 Create; Co-Founder, Creative Thinking Network; Former Associate Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, SUNY Buffalo State University; Co-Author, Weaving Creativity Into Every Strand of Your Curriculum (2015); Co-Editor, Big Questions in Creativity (2014)

Associate Director of Digital Media & Design, University of Connecticut; Blogger, DadsforCreativity.com; Co-Hosts of the “Fueling Creativity in Education” Podcast

Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College; Director, Autism Research Centre; Fellow, British Psychological Society, the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences; and the American Psychological Association; Vice President, National Autistic Society; Author, The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention (2020), Zero Degrees of Empathy (2012), and Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts (2008); Co-Author, "Socioeconomic Status, Mental Health, and Cognitive Outcomes in Autism" (2023, INSAR) and Understanding Other Minds (2013)

Neuroscientist; Founder, Awesome Neuroscience; Professor, Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education; Founder, Beyond the Cell; Expert on neurodiversity, intelligence, creativity, and mental health; Author, Insights into a Bright Mind: A Neuroscientist's Personal Stories of Unique Thinking (2021); Co-Author, "High Intelligence: A Risk Factor for Psychological and Physiological Overexcitabilities" (2018, Intelligence)

Director, Global Literacy Hub, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine; Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories; Executive Director, The Southport School; Executive Director, The Dyslexia Foundation; Co-Author, “What Comes After the Lemonade Stand? Fueling Self-Efficacy and Intentions in Our Next Generation of Entrepreneurs” (2017, The Conversation)

Neurobiologist; Professor, Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chief Editor, Journal of Neurophysiology; Author, Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality (2020), Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience (2018), Touch: The Science of the Hand, Heart, and Mind (2015), and The Accidental Mind (2009)

Vice President, Practice Engagement and Capacity Building, The American Occupational Therapy Association; Former Associate Professor and Director of Inaugural Masters of Occupational Therapy Program, Wesley College; Author, Self-Regulation and Mindfulness: Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, & Autism Spectrum Disorder (2017); Co-Author, Trauma Treatment in Action (2021) and Raising Kids with Sensory Processing Disorders (2020, 2nd Edition)

Advocate for neurodiverse children and appreciating for their unique skills; Founder/CEO of Tilt Parenting; Host of the Tilt Parenting “Raising Differently Wired Kids” Podcast, which has more than 4 million downloads; Certified Positive Discipline Trainer; Regular Contributor to Psychology Today and ADDitude Magazine; Named as a “Top 25 Amazing Women of the Year” by Stiletto Magazine; Author, Differently Wired: A Parent’s Guide to Raising an Atypical Child With Confidence and Hope (2020)

Professor, Department of Neuroscience, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University;  Co-Author, “Humans Monitor Learning Progress in Curiosity-Driven Exploration” (2021, Nature Communications Biology), “Toward a Neuroscience of Active Sampling and Curiosity” (2018, Nature Reviews Neuroscience), and “Motivated Cognition: Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Curiosity, Attention, and Intrinsic Motivation” (2016, Recent Developments in Neuroscience Research on Human Motivation)

Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience; Professor of Psychology; Member, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, who studies the impact of stress on cognition and creativity; Co-Author, “The Aversive Lens: Stress Effects on the Prefrontal-Cingulate Cortical Pathways That Regulate Emotion” (2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews) and “Chronic Stress Weakens Connectivity in the Prefrontal Cortex: Architectural and Molecular Changes” (2021, Chronic Stress)

Director, Academic Indepence Coaching Educational Consultant; Former Director of Association and Membership, Houston Tutorial Association; Creator of a digital program to increase executive functioning and self-regulation skills

Associate Professor and Program Director of Neuroscience and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; whose doctoral and post-doctoral work was conducted in theoretical linguistics and neurosciences at University College London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of the faculty at Teachers College since 2003; Certified Institutional Review Board (IRB) professional with expertise in research compliance and the ethical conduct of research with human participants in diverse communities; Director, Neurocognition of Language Lab at Teachers College, which uses brain imaging techniques to investigate questions about the neuroscience of language, learning, and cognitive processing across the lifespan, with an emphasis on multilingualism, literacy, speech, and language; Co-Author, "Middle Schooler's Reading and Processing Depth in Response to Digital and Print Media" (2023, bioRxiv)

Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University; Director of the LearnLab, which builds on the past success of Cognitive Tutors, an approach to online personalized tutoring that is in use in thousands of schools and has been repeatedly demonstrated to increase student achievement; Co-Founder of CarnegieLearning, Inc. that has brought Cognitive Tutor based courses to millions of students since it was formed in 1998; Author, "Navigating Ethical Benefits and Risks as AIED" Comes of Age" (2024, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education); Co-Author, "Improving Student Learning with Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring: A Three-Study Quasi-Experimental Investigation" (2024, Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge)