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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsNancy P. GallavanNancy P. Gallavan is professor of teacher education at University of Central Arkansas specializing in classroom assessments, cultural competence, and social studies education in an ATE award-winning MAT program. With more than 120 publications in various peer-reviewed journals and teacher education books, she has authored and/or edited 15 books, receiving the UCA Research Award in 2013. Active in the Association of Teacher Educators, the American Educational Research Association, the National Association of Multicultural Education, and the National Council for the Social Studies plus several regional and state associations, Nancy served as the 2013–2014 ATE president.LeAnn G. PutneyLeAnn G. Putney is professor of educational psychology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, specializing in ethnographic research in K–12 classrooms. Her recent work explored teacher and collective classroom efficacy from a Vygotskian perspective to illustrate how efficacy develops and is enhanced by classroom participants. LeAnn cofounded Innovations International Charter School of NV, a public K–12 charter school for culturally and linguistically diverse students where she serves as director of research. She is active in the Association of Teacher Educators, the American Educational Research Association, and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages professional organizations.