Beverly Falk is a professor and the director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at the School of Education, The City College of New York. She has served in a variety of other educational roles: as a classroom teacher; a public school founder and director; district administrator; consultant to schools, districts, states, and national organizations; and associate director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been a fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is founding editor of The New Educator, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal. The author/coauthor/editor of many publications and books, her most recent work includes Teaching the Way Children Learn (Teachers College Press, 2008) and Listening to Their Voices: What We Can Learn From Teachers Inside the Urban Classroom (New Press, 2012).