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Previous article FreeAuthor BiographiesPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLaura Ascenzi-Moreno is an assistant professor in the Childhood/Bilingual and Special Education Department at Brooklyn College. She received her PhD in urban education from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She worked in Brooklyn, New York, in a Spanish/English two-way immersion school as a dual-language teacher and curriculum coach for a combined 12 years. Her research interests include bilingual education, biliteracy, multiple literacies, assessment, teacher knowledge, teacher change, and school governance.Nancy R. Cirillo is an associate professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and teaches one course a year for the Honors College. She holds a degree in comparative literature and has written on the rise of fascism and the arts in Western Europe and more recently has focused on Atlantic slavery and postcolonial studies in the Caribbean context. She is also curator of the H. D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies at the Richard J. Daley Library at UIC.Stacey A. Gibson is an educator, consultant, and writer working in Chicago, supporting those who have a vested interest moving beyond diversity conversations to exploring and articulating how patterns of race-based oppression shape interactions, institutions, and opportunity. Her past writing has appeared in Lee Mun Wah’s Let’s Get Real, and she has created and published antioppression curricula for teaching tolerance for the award-winning documentaries The Dhamma Brothers and American Promise. She would like to thank the nameless ones who preceded her, as she knows she could not be without them.T. Elijah Hawkes has been a public school principal for 12 years. He is currently coprincipal at Randolph Union High School in Randolph, Vermont. He was founding principal of the James Baldwin School in New York City. His writings about adolescence, public school, and democracy have appeared in Huffington Post, Education Week, Kappan, Schools: Studies in Education, and in two books published by Rethinking Schools: The New Teacher Book and Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality.Avi D. Lessing, PhD, teaches English and is an instructional coach at Oak Park and River Forest High School, where he specializes in social and emotional learning. In addition, he directs plays with a focus on documentary theater. His teaching and directing have been featured on NPR, in the Chicago Tribune and the podcast “Minor Interruption,” and in a chapter of the book, Teaching the Taboo, by Rick Ayers and William Ayers. He has written and published numerous essays on teaching and life. He is currently working on a book called The Relational Teacher. Speaking of relationships, Avi wants to thank his wife, Bindi, and their two kids, Raiva and Rafi—the deepest relationships of them all.Yongjian Li (李咏健) is a postgraduate researcher at the School of Education of Renmin University of China, Beijing. He is also a member of the TENSION research group at the University of Helsinki, Finland (diversity in education). Li specializes in public affairs in education management. His current research focuses on equality/equity and social justice in rural education, contrasting China, Finland, and Japan. Li is the recipient of many honors, including the Uniqlo Global Talent Scholarship (2014).Jason Michael Lukasik is assistant professor of education and director of the master of arts in education program at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned his PhD in curriculum studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include out-of-school learning, democratic teaching and community organizing, and museum/zoo education. Lukasik’s work draws on his diverse experiences in education policy and practice. He has been an advocate for students with special needs in Chicago, worked in museum education, collaborated with community organizations, and taught undergraduate and graduate students for the past 10 years.John S. O’Connor teaches at New Trier High School and in Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy. His poems have appeared in many literary journals and in his recent chapbook, Rooting. He has written two books of haiku and two books on teaching writing: Wordplaygrounds and This Time It’s Personal. He reviews books of poetry for the Harvard Review, and he is the host and creator of the education show “Schooled: The Podcast” (http://www.schooledthepodcast.com). Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Schools Volume 14, Number 2Fall 2017 Published in association with the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/694028 © 2017 by Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.