Regie Routman has been a champion for equity and literacy for many decades. She has served in underperforming schools and districts as a classroom teacher for all the elementary grades, Reading Recovery teacher, reading specialist, teacher of students with learning disabilities (“differently abled”), mentor and coach to teachers, principals, and leaders at all levels— nationally and internationally. She is the originator of the Transforming Our Teaching residencies, a video-based literacy series, where Regie and colleagues explicitly demonstrate how to create and sustain a trusting, joyful, intellectual school culture where all learners thrive. Regie is also the author of 12 professional books for teachers and leaders.