Marie Clay, FRSNZ, FNZPsS, FNZEI(Hon),Emeritus Professor, taught in primary schools and then at the University of Auckland where, for the next 30 years she introduced educational psychologists to ways of preventing psychological problems. She did post-graduate study in Developmental Psychology at the University of Minnesota on a Fulbright Scholarship and completed... more

Marie Mounteer is a staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She works to help teachers and students learn to find the joy of literacy, and believes literacy is a right, not a privilege, and a tool that empowers, engages, and fights injustice. Her passion is helping students who are working to become multilingual, and she helped... more

Marie Wilson Nelson holds a doctorate in Language Education from the University of Georgia. She has taught writing in elementary, middle, and secondary schools; at a Japanese language institute; and at several American colleges and universities. Currently training teacher researchers at the University of South Florida (Tampa), she chairs the Commission on the Preparation... more