Authors
DEBORAH L. BUTLER has many years of teaching experience, particularly in supporting diverse learners in secondary and post-secondary settings. She is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). At UBC, she coordinates the Faculty’s innovative inquiry-based programs designed to support educators interested in fostering self-regulated learning. In hercollaborative research with educational partners, she has studied how to support academicsuccess by students with diverse learning needs in support contexts and inclusive classrooms,how and why supporting self-regulated learning is so key to empowering learners,and how teachers can work together, in communities of inquiry, to construct practices thatachieve positive outcomes for students. Since joining UBC in 1994, she has published anedited book and over 40 influential articles and book chapters, presented over 60 refereedpapers at national or international conferences, and produced over 100 research reports foreducational partners and/or government.
LEYTON SCHNELLERT is a passionate educator who has been a middle and secondary years classroom teacher and learning resource teacher, K—12. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at The University of British Columbia—Okanagan (UBC-O). His research attends to how teachers and learners can mindfully embrace student diversity, inclusive education, self- and co-regulation and pedagogical practices that draw from students’ funds of knowledge to build participatory, collaborative, and culturally responsive learning communities. He is the lead for the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster in UBC-O’s Institute for Community Engaged Research. His scholarship takes up pedagogy and research methodologies that work from epistemological orientations to living and learning that are relational and community-honouring. He has presented and published his work in local, provincial, national and international forums. He has also co-Authored 6 books for educators including Student Diversity, It’s All About Thinking and Pulling Together.
NANCY E. PERRY worked as a classroom and resource teacher in school districts in British Columbia, Canada, before obtaining her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1996. Today, she is Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). There she teaches courses across two program areas: Human Development, Learning, and Culture and Special Education. She is a recipient of UBC’s Killam Teaching Prize and holds the Dorothy Lam Chair in Special Education. Currently, she is a section editor for the Journal of Learning and Instruction and serves on the editorial boards of the Educational Psychologist, Metacognition andLearning, and Teachers College Record. She is a Past President of the Canadian Association for Educational Psychology and currently is President of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.