Jody Guarino is Manager of the Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Leadership Collaborative at Orange County Department of Education and Senior Lecturer at University of California, Irvine.  A former National Board Certified teacher, she now supports teaching and learning of students, teachers, and administrators.

Lauren Weisskirk is an education strategist that supports organizations to set and reach ambitious impact goals. She has launched and grown programs at the nonprofit, district, and state level, and advises leaders throughout the PreK-12 curriculum market. She is the proud parent of two Portland (OR) Public School students.

John is currently the Endowed Director of the Teaching and Instructional Leadership Learning Collaborative at the Orange County Department of Education.  Previously, John was the Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Orange County, California. He has been in public education as a teacher or administrator for 29 years.  Through his 29 years in education, he has served in California and Georgia, and his service includes being a middle school language arts teacher, middle and elementary school principal, director of human resources and director of curriculum and instruction. John holds a bachelor’s degree in English from California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo, and a Master’s degree in Education Administration and Supervision from State University of West Georgia.

A deep respect for teachers and students drives the work of Dr. Lynsey Gibbons, who is a teacher educator and researcher in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her scholarship seeks to understand how teachers can be provided with rich opportunities to learn how to teach in ways that respond to children’s brilliance and position them as capable sensemakers. In her research, Gibbons seeks to explore teacher learning through an organizational and systems perspective with special attention to professional learning routines, the roles of instructional leaders such as principals and coaches, and the role of coherent learning events that occur within the system. She works alongside teachers to understand the interrelation of their instructional practices and school-wide efforts to support them. To that end, she has published articles and books related to designing for, facilitating, and examining teacher learning; specifying the practices of those who support teacher learning; and identifying tools and resources to support instructional leaders and teacher educators.