Charles Temple, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Education Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, New York USA. He was a co-founder and co-director of the award-winning Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project and author of many of its training materials. He has authored ten textbooks on education, and co-authored several textbook programs for young people. He has extensive training experience in Central Europe, East Africa, and Latin America. In 2005-2006 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Romania. His specialties are teacher education, literacy, educational materials production, educational assessment, higher education reform, and writing books for children.
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Alan Crawford, Ed. D., is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he was recognized as Outstanding Professor. He is an authority on reading and language instruction for multilingual students, with many publications in this field. His academic life has included service as Senior Literacy Specialist at UNESCO (Paris), Fulbright Senior Scholar in Ecuador, Professional-in-Residence at the U. S. Embassy, Baku, Azerbaijan, and IREX grants for Mongolia and Azerbaijan. He was Project Coordinator of the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project (RWCT), working in many countries in the Baltics, Central Asia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He currently serves on the editorial board of Lectura y Vida, the Spanish-language journal of the International Reading Association. He also served on the editorial board of The Thinking Classroom/Peremena. He received two Outstanding Policy Study awards from the American Association of Educational Research (AERA).
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E. Wendy Saul, Ph.D. holds the Alan B. and Helen S. Shopmaker Chair in Education and International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is the author/editor of numerous books and articles on critical literacy and the teaching of non-fiction text. She has also served as principle investigator for National Science Foundation grants totaling well over $5 million. Wendy Saul was the founding editor of Thinking Classroom and its Russian counterpart, Peremena and served for 6 years as it editor-in-chief. She also coordinated the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project, working extensively in Eastern and Central Europe. Saul is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recipient of the Regents Prize for Public Service from the University of Maryland.
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Samuel R. Mathews, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in The Department of Psychology at The University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida. He has developed and implemented literacy interventions for adolescents who have been involved with juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, and academic failure. These projects have ranged from school-based initiatives to efforts located in inner city housing projects. His international experience includes serving as a volunteer with RWCT in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, conducting certification workshops in Russia, and working as a Visiting Professor, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia (fall, 2004). He also coordinated, with Alan Crawford, the development of international certification standards for RWCT. His areas of expertise include instructional strategies for high risk adolescents, research design, project evaluation, and developmental psychology. He has served as review editor for the Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Educational Research, and The Thinking Classroom/Peremena.
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