Authors & Presenters

Martha Kaufeldt is a professional development specialist and author. She travels internationally doing workshops and trainings on curriculum development, differentiated instruction, assessment, mindfulness, and brain-friendly strategies for teachers.

Frank Kelly is an award-winning architect and planner based in Houston, Texas. He has a deep interest in education and all of the elements that comprise the environment teachers and students experience in schools.

Jane A. G. Kise, EdD, is the author of more than 25 books and has extensive experience in leadership development, executive coaching, instructional coaching, and differentiated instruction.

Jennifer D. Klein lives and breathes the student-centered pedagogies used to educate her. She spent 19 years as an educator before leaving the classroom to support educators’ professional learning in public, private and international schools.

Kathleen Kryza is a master teacher, consultant, and coach who has presented highly practical, brain-based, and inspirational workshops internationally for more than 25 years.

Dr. Nathan D. Lang-Raad is an educator, international speaker, and author. He has served as a teacher, principal, professor, director of curriculum and instruction, chief education officer, and vice president, and he has worked full-time at NASA. As of 2022, he has written and cowritten seven books.

Diane Lapp, EdD, is a distinguished professor of education at San Diego State University and an English teacher and literacy coach at Health Sciences High and Middle College.

Pamela Liebenberg, EdD, has been an educator for more than 25 years. She has served as an award-winning teacher, assistant principal, principal, regional director, and district director supervising 35 schools in the Tuscaloosa County School System.

Ann-Bailey Lipsett is a special education specialist and DIR/Floortime practitioner with twenty years of experience working with children, families, and schools.

Suzette Lovely, EdD, an educational consultant, worked in K–12 education for 37 years, serving as a teacher, principal, assistant/deputy superintendent, and most recently, superintendent at the Carlsbad Unified School District, before retiring in 2016.