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Kelly Hackett loves literacy --and curriculum design, too! These two areas have been her passion since she started her educational career over 20 years ago. Kelly has been a classroom teacher, national and state level educational consultant, and literacy coach. Kelly has trained many educators at the school and district level on how to understand, design, develop, implement, and evaluate literacy…

Matthew Haldeman, M.Ed., has taught public school in Washington D.C., New York, and in East Africa. He is the author of several short plays for children and has also written on education for various publications, including The Washington Post.

David L. Harrison, M.S., is a children’s author and Missouri’s poet laureate. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers have been anthologized in more than 200 books. Harrison gives presentations at national, regional, and local conferences and has been a featured speaker at literature festivals and schools. In 2020, Harrison received the first Laura Ingalls Wilder Children’s Literatu…

Jessica Hathaway, M.S.Ed., earned her B.A. in Psychology from Pomona College and her M.S. in Education from Northwestern University, with a concentration in literacy. She has conducted classroom-based research on the integration of different learning modalities into literacy instruction and spent several years working in the Los Angeles Unified School District teaching early elementary, instructi…

Dona does not know which is more fun-learning about the world through science, or writing books for children that tell all about it. She is glad she does not have to decide and can do both!

JoBea Holt, Ph.D, is a scientist and author. As a scientist, she has worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory focusing on NASA's Space Shuttle Earth observing missions. In 1995, Dr. Holt created KidSat, a Shuttle-based Earth-imaging camera that used NASA's communications and the Internet to allow students in their classrooms to operate the camera during a mission. As an author, she has written …

Debra J. Housel, M.A., earned a master's degree from Nazareth College of Rochester and worked as a teacher for more than a dozen years before becoming a freelance writer. She is an award-winning author and has written and/or consulted on more than 100 titles.

Barbara Houtz, M.Ed., is Director of Outreach for the Pennsylvania State University Eberly College of Science. She also teaches a course on Scientists Teaching Science for graduate and post-graduate science researchers. Barbara develops and presents professional development workshops on teaching science through inquiry, training both elementary and secondary teachers nationwide.