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Kristen Bonanno-Sotiropoulos Author

Dr. Nicholas D. Young has worked in diverse educational roles for more than 28 years, serving as a principal, special education director, graduate professor, graduate program director, graduate dean, and longtime superintendent of schools. He was named the Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year, completed a distinguished Fulbright program, and holds several graduate degrees including a PhD in educational administration and an EdD in educational psychology. He has published widely to include several books and book chapters on a variety of topics in education, counseling and psychology. Since stepping away from the news desk in 2006 after eight years as a reporter at three daily newspapers and a weekly magazine, Bryan Thors Noonan began designing award-winning scholastic writing programs at a Turnaround High School at Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Fla. In August 2017, he became a Reading and English Language Arts Specialist for Duval County, where he began coaching educators teaching academic writing to more than 10,000 students across 22 high schools. Professor Kristen Bonanno-Sotiropoulos has worked in education at the various levels for more than a dozen years. Her professional career within K12 public education included roles as a special education teacher and special education administrator at the elementary and middle school levels. After her tenure in K12, she transitioned to higher education to teach undergraduate and graduate courses as an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Springfield College located in Springfield, Massachusetts.