Fred Ende is the director of Curriculum and Instructional Services for the Putnam/Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). He previously served in this same organization as the regional science coordinator and director of SCIENCE 21. Before that, he worked for 10 years as a middle school science teacher and department chair in Chappaqua, New York. He is one of ASCD's emerging leaders and currently is a board member in ASCD's Emerging Leader Affiliate. He has written and reviewed manuscripts for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and ASCD and has been both a national and regional presenter for both associations. He is an avid writer who blogs monthly for SmartBrief and has also written for Edutopia and his own website. Meghan Everette is a mathematics coach in the Salt Lake City School District, and the executive director of the ASCD Emerging Leader Alumni Affiliate. She was the 2013 Alabama Elementary Teacher of the Year and a 2015-17 Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow.

Meghan codesigned Powered By Teach to Lead Utah; spent six years as a blogger for the Scholastic Top Teaching blog; and taught at George Hall Elementary, a national turnaround model school in Mobile, Alabama. She is currently a board member of both the Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics (UCTM) and Utah ASCD. She is a Digital Promise Micro-Credential Ambassador and serves on the Council of Chief State School Officers' Teacher Recruitment and Retention Educator Steering Committee. Meghan is currently pursuing her doctorate in Teachers, Schools, and Society at the University of Florida.