Franklin's career spans thirty-three years of classroom teaching, counseling, and eight years of supervision and administration as a school administrator. Listen to Franklin talk to Bob Sickles about the best practices in dropout prevention.

Blackburn has dedicated her life to raising the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. What differentiates Barbara’s 12 books are her easily executable concrete examples based on decades of experience as a teacher, professor, and consultant.

Long before the Common Core State Standards crossed the threshold of our schools, Amy Benjamin had been a champion of literacy in the content areas. Amy reminds us that literacy instruction is everybody’s business.