Karen Manheim Teel Author & Editor

Karen Manheim Teel is a classroom teacher researcher in the San Francisco East Bay area, teaching 7th and 8th grade history. She received her doctorate from U.C. Berkeley in 1993 and a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1994.,
Andrea DeBruin-Parecki is an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Northern Iowa. She has been actively involved with culturally diverse schools and communities through her research in family literacy, authentic assessment and motivation.