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      Serena Pariser, MA, has twelve years of experience teaching in public schools, including charter schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade. She served as an eighth- and ninth-grade ELA teacher for nine years at Gompers Preparatory Academy. She has taught in some of the most challenging school settings from coast to coast, including a boarding school for students from fifteen different Indian tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. Most of her full-time teaching experience is at the middle school level, although she also has experience in high school and elementary school settings. She earned her bachelor’s degree in education at Pennsylvania State University and her master’s degree in educational technology from San Diego State University. She has been a teacher, teacher coach, and curriculum designer, and she has held leadership positions in K–12 school settings and university settings. Serena was humbled to be recognized as teacher of the year at Gompers Preparatory Academy in the 2008–2009 school year. Serena presents at conferences state-wide and nationally on topics ranging from character education to classroom management. In June 2018 she was a keynote speaker at the Beginning Institute in Tucson, Arizona. For two years she served as the assistant director of field experience at the University of San Diego, where she had the opportunity to work closely with master’s degree students entering the teaching profession. She continues to teach graduate courses on classroom management and character education. In addition to her work in the United States, Serena has expanded her educational knowledge around the globe. She coached teachers and modeled best practices and engagement strategies in Kathmandu, Nepal, and also taught in rural parts of Turkey. Serena was selected as a U.S. ambassador by the Fulbright Distinguished Teaching Program. Fulbright gave her an opportunity to coach eleventh- and twelfth-grade teachers in a rural village in Botswana on engagement strategies, smart technology use, and best practices in the classroom. Serena is the bestselling author of Real Talk About Classroom Management: 50 Best Practices That Work and Show You Believe in Your Students, published by Corwin in February 2018. It has also been made into a self-paced online video course, Skillbuilders, for both new and experienced teachers. Serena relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to be closer to her family. Twitter: @SerenaPariser Facebook: www.facebook.com/serenapariser Blog: www.serenapariser.com E-mail: [email protected]