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Book SynopsisDr. Derrick D. Jordan is currently Deputy State Superintendent for the Educator and Student Advancement Division at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With over 25 years of experience in the educational area, Dr. Jordan has also served as an assistant state superintendent, superintendent, clinical assistant professor, assistant superintendent, curriculum director, high school principal, assistant principal, and teacher. He has also co-authored a variety of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters devoted to educational leadership and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Scholarship and Practice.
Dr. Dionne V. McLaughlin is an Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University. She is a British-born Black Jamaican American educator who is an experienced bilingual elementary and high school principal, former Lexington High School Associate Principal, and former METCO Director in Wellesley and Scituate, Massachusetts. She has a Master's from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Doctorate from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
