Shawna Coppola is an educator with over two decades of experience teaching children as young as five, adults with three or more decades of teaching experience, and every age learner in between. The majority of her professional life has been spent teaching literacy to middle school-age children as well as serving as a literacy specialist/coach in a K-6 school. She currently spends most of her time teaching writing to undergraduate students, facilitating engaging professional learning opportunities for educators, and speaking at local, regional, and national educational conferences. She is the author of three books about teaching; her most recent book, Literacy for All: A Framework for Anti-Oppressive Teaching, was published in December of 2023.