Fred Ende is director of Curriculum and Instructional Services for the Putnam/Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) where he is responsible for supporting and leading the development of curriculum, professional learning, and innovative educational initiatives, and is liaison to the New York State Education Department regarding curriculum and instruction requirements and regulations. He previously served in this same organization as the assistant director of Curriculum and Instructional Services as well as regional science coordinator and director of SCIENCE 21. Before that, he worked for 10 years as a middle school science teacher and department chair in Chappaqua, New York.

Ende is one of ASCD's emerging leaders and currently is a board member in ASCD's Emerging Leader Affiliate. He has written and reviewed manuscripts for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), Heinemann Publishing, Corwin Press, and ASCD and has been both a national and regional presenter for both associations. He is an avid writer who blogs monthly for SmartBrief and has also written for Edutopia.

Meghan Everette is resident school ambassador fellow at the U.S. Department of Education, a mathematics coach, and the executive director of the ASCD Emerging Leader Alumni Affiliate. She was the 2013 Alabama Elementary Teacher of the Year. Everette codesigned Powered By Teach to Lead Utah; spent six years as a blogger for the Scholastic Top Teaching blog; and taught at George Hall Elementary, a national turnaround model school in Mobile, Alabama.

Everette is currently a board member of both the Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics (UCTM) and Utah ASCD. She is a Digital Promise Micro-Credential Ambassador and serves on the Council of Chief State School Officers' Teacher Recruitment and Retention Educator Steering Committee.