Richard Beach is the Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference; Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 4th Edition, Teaching Language as Action, Languaging Relations for Transforming Literacy and the Language Arts Classroom, and Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, 3rd Edition.

Blaine E. Smith is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, USA. Her scholarship is focused on multilingual adolescents' digital literacies and developing strategies for supporting teachers' integration of technology in diverse classrooms.