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Alexandra Freidus is a doctoral candidate in Urban Education at New York University. Her research uses qualitative methods to explore how community stakeholders conceptualize student diversity, how school and district administrators enact educational policy, and how these local contexts relate to schools’ central work—teaching and learning. Alex’s work is informed by more than 15 years of professional experience teaching high school social studies and leading professional development in K–12 schools.

Chelsea is currently in her 12th year of teaching at Jackson Middle School in Jackson, Missouri. She has taught language arts for several years and developed a knack for cross-curricular instruction. She enjoys developing practical classroom strategies that save teachers time and energy, while still increasing student achievement. Her first book, an instructional strategies book about the use of word sorts to improve vocabulary instruction in the content areas, is being published by Scholastic in January 2018.