Over the past three decades, Dr. Eric Toshalis has served public education in a variety of roles including middle and high school teacher, coach, mentor teacher, teacher educator, union president, community activist, curriculum writer, researcher, professor, author, consultant, and research director. Recognized as Teacher of the Year by his school district in Santa Barbara County in 1997 and awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching by Harvard College in 2002, Eric has long focused on what it takes to educate adolescents and adults who bring a diversity of cultural, ethnic, gender, linguistic, racial, sexual, and socioeconomic insights. Eric received his B.A., teaching credential, and M.Ed. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School. He completed his doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2007. With Michael J. Nakkula, Eric coauthored the book _Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators_, which was published by Harvard Education Press in 2006. Eric served as Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at CSU Channel Islands from 2007 to 2011, and was Director of the Middle Level/High School Summer M.A.T. Program in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis and Clark College from 2011 to 2015. Currently serving as the Senior Director of Impact and Improvement at Knowledgeworks, Dr. Toshalis leads the Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative (sclresearchcollab.org). He also consults with districts and schools across the nation to help them design learning environments that ensure today's diverse adolescents will flourish. For further information, please visit EngagingResistance.com.