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Caleb Cheung is the Science Manager and previously a science teacher in the Oakland Unified School District for the past 20 years. His work focuses on developing extensive districtwide structures and regional partnerships for improving science education and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). He has a background in biology and is National Board Certified in Early Adolescent Science. In 2005, Caleb won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and from 2006–2009 he served as a Commissioner and the Chair of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. He currently serves on the Science Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee to align California's Science Framework to NGSS.

Wendy Jennings has been a mathematics educator in Sacramento City Unified School District for the past 13 years. She has degrees in anthropology (BA), mathematics (BS), and human behavior (MA). Wendy also works with the UC Davis C-STEM center on the integration of computer programming and robotics into mathematics curriculum.

Elisabeth Johnson is a National Board Certified Social Studies teacher who has been at Luther Burbank High School for nine years. She is a teaching consultant for the Area 3 Writing Project at the University of California, Davis.

Laura Prival coordinates the elementary science program of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in Oakland, California. Laura has coached many elementary teachers in OUSD as they increase the quantity and quality of science instruction in their classrooms and developed curriculum to help teachers and students transition to the Next Generation Science Standards. Laura has designed and led numerous workshops for teachers focusing on hands-on science, strategies for developing language and literacy through science, watershed awareness, climate change, and outdoor education. She has taught science in both urban and rural settings and was previously a fifth-grade multiple-subject teacher in OUSD. Laura has also worked as a service learning specialist, a curriculum writer, and an education consultant for nonprofit organizations. She is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at Mills College with a focus on equity in elementary science instruction.

Claudio Vargas is the Coordinator of Elementary Science at the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). He oversees and supports the implementation of the science program at the 54 district elementary schools. Before joining OUSD, Mr. Vargas served as the director of the Bay Area Science Project (BASP) at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS). Mr. Vargas has led numerous professional development programs throughout the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Texas, and Central America. He has designed and implemented K–8 professional development programs that focus on developing teachers' science content knowledge and expanding their teaching strategies, with particular emphasis on strategies that provide English language learners with access to the core curriculum and accelerated language learning. Prior to joining LHS, Mr. Vargas worked for 10 years as a bilingual K–5 teacher and a science coach in the Oakland Unified School District.

Diana Vélez is a professional development specialist and curriculum developer at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently works with various science education projects in the area of English Language Development and the integration of literacy, as well as classroom and districtwide implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards. Before coming to the Lawrence Hall of Science, Ms. Vélez was a science and math coach for an elementary school in Oakland, California and taught in a Spanish dual immersion program at the primary level.