Frank currently serves as a K-5 educational specialist in Sonoma County, California with a primary focus on intensive academic intervention. He has worked in public education for over 20 years across a variety of K-12 special education settings. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing, a Master’s Degree in Education, and is currently a doctoral student in the Reading Science program at Mount Saint Joseph University. In addition to formal education, he has also completed a wide variety of structured literacy training such as LETRS, thinkSRSD, Morningside Model of Generative Instruction, and Yoshimoto OG while also exploring a large variety of structured evidence-based intervention programs and assessment models throughout his career. Through both field work and the North Coast School of Education he has helped mentor other educators and strives to find ways to streamline best practice into the day-to-day classroom experience.

Jennifer N. Mahdavi has been a professor and teacher-educator at the university level for nearly 2 decades. She earned her doctorate in Special Education from the University of California, Riverside, and she is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). Her expertise is in assessment, data-based intervention decisions, and behavior management. Building on 10 years of experience teaching elementary school, Dr. Mahdavi is committed to making the lives of individuals with disabilities better by bringing research to practice.