James H. Stronge is president and CEO of Stronge & Associates Educational Consulting, LLC, an educational consulting company that focuses on teacher and leader effectiveness with projects throughout the United States and internationally. Additionally, he is the Heritage Professor of Education, a distinguished professorship, in the Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Area at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia.

He teaches doctoral courses within the School of Education's Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership (EPPL) Program, with a particular focus on teacher and leader effectiveness, human resource leadership, legal issues in education, and research design.

Xianxuan Xu received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from William and Mary's Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Program. Currently she is working as the decision analytics researcher at the Virginia Department of Education. Previously she served as the senior research associate with Stronge & Associates Educational Consulting. Her research interests include teacher and principal effectiveness, professional development, and evaluation.

To date, she has authored or coauthored eight books and numerous book chapters, journal articles, and technical reports. She has presented findings of her research at leading national conferences, such as the American Educational Research Association, the University Council for Educational Administration, and the CREATE National Evaluation Institute.

Lauri M. Leeper is a postdoctoral research associate at the College of William and Mary and an educational consultant with Stronge and Associates. In the latter capacity, she works with state agencies and school districts on teacher and administrator evaluation systems. Her current research interests include teacher and administrator evaluation, teacher effectiveness, teacher leadership, and effective reading comprehension instruction. She is a former middle school and elementary school teacher, a certified library media specialist, and a certified reading specialist. She has presented at national-, state-, and local-level conferences on topics including teacher evaluation, closing the achievement gap, effective schools, information literacy, inquiry-based learning, and curriculum design. Leeper received her doctoral degree in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership from the College of William and Mary.

Virginia C. Tonneson is the vice president of Stronge and Associates and a postdoctoral research associate at the College of William and Mary. In these capacities, she works with regional, state, and international agencies as well as individual school districts to design and implement teacher, educational specialist, and administrator evaluation systems. Ginny was in the first class of women to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and served in the Air Force for over 20 years. She has remained active in the education of cadets, speaking in various forums about leadership and character development. She has taught at the elementary through graduate levels and has been a higher education administrator. She has presented at national-, state-, and local-level conferences in the areas of leadership, mathematics, and gifted education. Her current areas of research include teacher leadership as well as teacher and leader effectiveness. Her work has been published in both books and peer-reviewed journals. Ginny received her doctoral degree in Educational Policy, Planning, Leadership from the College of William and Mary.