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Jen Soalt Author

Jen Soalt is an education writer and curriculum designer who has worked as a teacher, reading specialist, literacy coach, and curriculum director in public schools and national education organizations. She is Sr. Curriculum Designer at CBL Partners.

Andrea Avery is an educator, editor, and author of Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano and Visiting Composer: A Novella. She is curriculum editor at Springboard Collaborative.