ACT Leadership

* Sandy Dean – Associate Director and Co-Founder of ACT; Director of the National Board Resource Center at Stanford University

* David B. Cohen – Associate Director and Co-Founder of ACT;

* Anthony Cody – ACT Co-Founder

Linda Darling-Hammond – Charles Ducommon Professor of Education, Stanford University; Co-Director School Redesign Network (SRN)

ACT Members

Alex Kajitani – CA Teacher of the Year 2009

Kelly Kovacic – CA Teacher of the Year 2010; blog author

Valerie Ziegler – CA Teacher of the Year 2010

* L. Martha Infante – 2009 CCSS Middle Level Teacher of the Year; blog author

* Liane Cismowski – teacher, member of the Board of Directors for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Larry Ferlazzo – teacher, education blog and book author

Heather Wolpert-Gawron – CA Regional Teacher of the Year 2004; the San Gabriel Valley Outstanding Computer Using Educator 2009; blog and book author

* Sarah Kirby-Gonzalez – Folsom-Cordova Unified Teacher of the Year 2010

* Mark W. Ellis, Ph.D. - Associate Professor and Chair, Secondary Education; College of Education, California State University Fullerton; Board Member (2011-2014), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

Jennifer Abrams – Educational consultant and author

* Leslee Milch – teacher; National Board Candidate Support Provider, California State University at Fullerton; National Board Recruitment and Outreach, Orange County Department of Education.

Katherine Everett – Intel Teach to the Future Master Teacher; Principal, County Special Education Program

* Laura Bradley – teacher; National Board Candidate Support Provider, Stanford University; Bay Area Writing Project Teacher Consultant.

Bill Younglove, Ed.D. – Teacher Education, California State University at Long Beach; NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Award recipient, for Holocaust education.

Roni Habib – teacher and teacher trainer, Palo Alto Unified School District;

Elizabeth K. Baker, MPH, Ed.D. – Acting Director of Mills College Secondary Mathematics and Science Program; Research Associate, Mills College Lesson Study Group.

Darlene Pope – teacher; Consultant for AVID/College Board/GEAR UP California; Presenter at College Board National Conference, Pre-AP Summer Institutes, AVID Summer Institutes and LACOE workshops for AVID.

* Kay Garcia – Regional Outreach Director for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; former Education Programs Consultant in the Mathematics and Science Leadership Office at the California Department of Education.

* Stacy Begin – teacher; California Teachers Association Staff Person in the Instructional Professional Development Department.

(* National Board Certified Teacher)