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Stephanie is an educator with nearly 20 years of experience educating children and adults at all levels. As a K-12 and college-level educator she has over 15 years of experience in the classroom — face-to-face and online in virtual school settings. Additionally, she has 10 years of experience in leadership roles that encompass a wide range of school administration and curriculum/instructional leadership including the development, delivery & facilitation of professional development.
 * Stephanie Sandifer**

As an educator who enjoys sharing with others, Stephanie began exploring the use of blogging as a tool for connecting and communicating with others in March of 2006 when she launched the Change Agency blog. From there she has explored the use of wikis, social networking, and other Web 2.0 tools in the classroom and professionally to develop a Personal Learning Network of hundreds of other educators who share her curiosity and passion for learning.

Stephanie lives in Houston, Texas, and works from home as an online educator, author, professional development provider, and consultant. She shares her life with three young children, a very supportive partner, two yellow labs, and two cats.

George Couros is currently school principal of [|Forest Green School and Connections for Learning,] located in Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada. The schools are from ages K-12, and he loves working with kids of all ages. He is passionate about distributed leadership within his school, and believes that creating a collaborative environment with all stakeholders, will help to ensure that educators meet the best needs of all children. You can learn more about George on his own blog entitled [|“The Principal of Change”]. George created the "Connected Principals" site because he knew that we can learn so much from a strong team of educators with different backgrounds, as opposed to the view of only one.
 * George Couros**

I always begin by stating that I am the father of 8 children, 4 girls and 4 boys whose ages range from 18 years old to 16 months old. I have been involved in online learning and learning communities for the past 15 years having taken my Master of Education via distance education from the University of Calgary, taught online classes and facilitated teachers in using technology in their classroom practices. I have taken a number of online classes from Harvard School of Education and am a trained online facilitator. I have participated in a number of international learning activities including the second year of the Flat Classroom Project as a teacher advisor. I began Ed Administrators2.0 3 years ago in an attempt to bring administrators together to shar ideas and experiences about being leaders during this time of edcuational change. I also write at the blog Educational Discource, participate in the online journal Leadertalk and participate in several online communities focused on education.
 * Kelly Christopherson**

Besides the teaching and online activities I have been a coach and referee for most of my career. At present I referee football volleyball and basketball and coach Sr. Girls basketball and track and field.

I've been a teacher for 20 years and an administrator for the last 10. I began teaching highschool and then spent 7 years teaching middle years in a K - 7 school. I moved on to become an administrator in an elementary school then a junior high school. Following this, I was an administrator for two school campuses, a K - 4 French Immersion and 5 - 9 French Immersion. I proceeded to move on to a K - 12 school in a rural setting and then was asked to be a vice principal at a 8 - 12 high school in a larger urban setting. I am currently a principal of two schools, an elementary and a high school but later this year these two schools will merge to become a larger K -12 school. I currently live in Porcupine Plain SK with my wife, my 8 children and 3 cats.