Dr. Jane Hansen, professor emerita in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and former director of the Central Virginia Writing Project, has decades of experience as a researcher and teacher in the field of writing instruction. Her expertise is in writing across the K–16 curriculum.

Dr. Paul M. Rogers is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University and the Director of the Northern Virginia Writing Project. In addition to working with K-12 teachers throughout Northern Virginia, he teaches courses in writing, including graduate seminars in composition theory and research methods in professional writing and rhetoric.

Dr. Wolf is the Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, where she is an Associate Professor of Child Development. She is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and has published hundreds of articles on reading and learning disabilities. She is the author of the RAVE-O Intervention Program, an evidence-based fluency comprehension program for struggling readers.

Phyllis C. Hunter is an internationally known literacy expert who has served as an advisor to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. She says that “reading is the new civil right.”