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Dr. Debra Drang

Dr. Debra Drang is the Director of Special Education at Sulam in Rockville, MD. Currently in her 24th year in education, she holds a Ph.D. in Special Education from University of Maryland, and has served in a variety of capacities including classroom teacher, itinerant teacher, mentor, teacher trainer/coach, and researcher. Debra has a strong record of applying current, research-based best practices to everyday classroom life. Her areas of expertise include inclusion, universal curriculum design, tiered instruction/intervention, classroom management, and progress monitoring.

Perri Hecht

Perri Hecht, M.S., CCC-SLP/A, Cert. AVT, LSLS is founder and director of Perri Hecht Speech and Auditory Services, specializing in social skills intervention, aural (re)habilitation, auditory processing disorders and executive dysfunction. She is also co-founder and co-director of Social Skills Plus. Perri presents at conferences throughout the tri-state area and nationally, and publishes in professional journals. She also consults for schools and school districts in New York and New Jersey, and has taught as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College.

Melissa Truelove

Mrs. Melissa Truelove is the General Studies Principal of Yeshiva Torat Emet in Houston, TX, and has over 15 years of experience in the field of education. She holds a an M.Ed. from Northern Arizona University in Educational Leadership and started her career as a teacher for 10 years at Tucson Hebrew Academy in Arizona. Mrs. Truelove has taught many elementary and middle school grades and subjects, for which she has received multiple national awards. She is passionate about many aspects of education, including data-driven instruction, curriculum development, instructional coaching, and presenting professional development workshops.

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Nancy Siegel

Nancy Siegel is an internationally recognized presenter, teacher trainer, and author specializing in mindfulness education and children’s yoga teacher training. For more than 20 years, she has created yoga and mindfulness inspired and educationally based programming that has resonated with school leaders, educators, parents, children and executives. She has a Master’s in Educational Leadership, completed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training, holds multiple Yoga Alliance accreditations, has a Registered Children’s Yoga School and is a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher Trainer.

Laya Salomon

Dr. Laya Salomon is Associate Professor at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and Director of Azrieli’s PELE Fellowship Program in Jewish Education. Dr. Salomon teaches master’s and doctoral level courses in leadership, supervision, curriculum, assessment, teaching methodologies and differentiated instruction, and she supervises student teachers. Prior to joining Azrieli in 2004, Dr. Salomon was a professor of psychology and education at Touro College and a Judaic studies teacher.

Dr. Rona Novick

Rona Novick, PhD, Co-Educational Director of Hidden Sparks, is the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and holds the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values. She holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Child Psychology at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center.