Pat Johnson has supported both students and teachers as an elementary reading teacher for twenty-five years. Most of her career has been spent in schools with diverse populations in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a Reading Recovery-trained teacher and has served as an adjunct faculty member for George Mason University. Presently, as a literacy consultant, Pat provides staff development for various school districts nationwide and has presented at state and national conferences. She is the author of One Child at a Time: Making the Most of Your Time with Struggling Readers, K-6 and co-author of Catching Readers Before They Fall, both from Stenhouse Publishers.
 

Katie Keier has been a teacher for 19 years - teaching, learning, and playing with children in grades 1-8.  She is currently in her first year as a literacy specialist in an urban elementary school. Katie received her master's degree in literacy studies from Virginia Tech. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in the area of Literacy and an adjunct faculty member for American University.  Her expertise and interests lie in early literacy instruction and how children learn through multiple modalities. She is also interested in arts integration, critical literacy, creating a strong classroom community, and children's literature. Catching Readers Before They Fall is Katie's first book.