Dr. Heather A. Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Counselor Education at North Carolina State University. Trained as an educational psychologist, her teaching interests surround helping pre-service and practicing teachers use theories of development to meet their students′ needs. For the last ten years, she has worked collaboratively with school districts throughout Georgia, Ohio, and North Carolina to understand the nature of teacher-student relationships and what it means to create schools that fully engage students in the learning process.

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Dr. Jessica Summers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona. She previously served on the faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Also trained as an Educational Psychologist, Dr. Summers′ scholarship focuses on understanding the role of motivation and social relationships in learning and achievement, specifically how social context (as both processes and phenomena) affects students′ motivation to learn, and how this contributes to students′ overall success as learners. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Educational Psychology, The Elementary School Journal, the Journal of Experimental Education, and the American Educational Research Journal.

Lauren Miller is a Nationally Board Certified 1^st grade teacher at Durham Academy in Durham, NC. She holds a Masters degree in Developmental Supervision from the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Counselor Education at North Carolina State University. She has taught at public and private elementary schools in Durham, North Carolina, has supervised student teachers, and has conducted research on effective models for training supervisors and for teacher professional development.