Author Description

About the Author About our authorsDonna M. Gollnick is an education author and consultant in multicultural education and teacher education. She currently is a member of the Early Childhood Higher Education Accreditation Commission of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Between 2013 and 2018, she was the Vice President for Quality Assurance at the TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education, an online post-baccalaureate program. Previously, she was Senior Consultant at the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), the Senior Vice President of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Director of Professional Development for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and a secondary teacher in South Bend and Carmel, Indiana. Dr. Gollnick is the coauthor of Introduction to the Foundations of American Education: Becoming Effective Teachers in Challenging Times (17th edition) and An Introduction to Teaching: Making a Difference in Student Learning (3rd edition). She is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). Donna has been recognized as a distinguished alumna by the College of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue University and the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and received an Advocate for Justice Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).Philip C. Chinn is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught multicultural education and special education and served as Special Education Division chair. He served as special assistant to the Executive Director for Minority Affairs at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), where he coordinated the first national conferences on the Exceptional Bilingual Child and the Exceptional Black Child. He served as vice president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) and