Joan Cenedella, former dean of the Children's Program and vice president of Academic Affairs at Bank Street College of Education

Cheri Cross, co-founder and principal of Slate Roof Studio

Caltha Crowe, former third grade teacher at Kings Highway School in Westport, Connecticut, and current consulting teacher for Northeast Foundation for Children

Larry Dieringer, executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility

Robert Fricker, consultant, Educational Directions, Inc. and former head of the Independent Day School in Middlefield, Connecticut

Sherry Immediato, managing director of the Society for Organizational Learning

Anne Jenkins-Jordan, former principal of Anthony J. Hyde Elementary School in Washington, DC, and current consulting teacher for Northeast Foundation for Children

Marijke Kehrhahn, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Neag School of Education at UCONN

Desi Nesmith, consultant for Cambridge Education and former principal of the America's Choice at SAND School in Hartford, Connecticut

Clay Shouse, vice president of HighScope Educational Research Foundation

Charlotte Stetson, former early childhood teacher and current senior consultant for The Work Sampling System and Teaching Strategies, Inc.

Neil Yeager, managing director of the Charter Oak Consulting Group