Shanda Jones is an English Language Arts teacher in Spartanburg, South Carolina and a doctoral candidate at Gardner-Webb University. Shanda currently holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from North Greenville University and a Master of Education degree in classroom leadership from Southern Wesleyan University. She is certified in elementary education and is endorsed in the areas of gifted and talented education and Read to Succeed literacy instruction. She is actively working toward integrating trauma-informed strategies and literacy instruction.

Joyce Patton is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. Her research interest include the effects of implicit bias on pedagogy and the role of teacher preparatory programs in mitigating those effects. Joyce holds a BS in Engineering Technology and an MA in Teaching, both from the UNC Charlotte. She currently teaches project-based, technology electives at her middle school site in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District.

Tiffani Richardson is currently an Instructional Facilitator at her school site located in the Winston Salem Forsyth County School System. She holds a BS in Elementary Education and M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction from UNC-Greensboro. Her research interests include parental involvement and teacher efficacy. Tiffani is Nationally Board Certified and has taught in Title I schools for 23 years. She is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina.