David F. Bateman is professor of educational leadership and special education at Shippensburg University, where he teaches courses on special education law, assessment, and facilitating inclusion. He has recently coauthored A Principal's Guide to Special Education, A Teacher's Guide to Special Education, Charting the Course: Special Education in Charter Schools, Special Education Leadership: Building Effective Programming in Schools, and Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education.
Mitchell L. Yell is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and professor of special education at the University of South Carolina. Yell has published 124 journal articles, five textbooks, twenty-six book chapters, and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. He also serves as a state-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 16 years.
Kevin P. Brady is associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas. He is also adjunct associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West's Education Law Reporter. His scholarship appears in a wide array of educational leadership, law, and policy journals.
