David Borg is a teacher at MacArthur Middle School in Berkeley, Illinois. He teaches Social Studies and Math at the 7th and 8th grade levels. Mr. Borg is active in numerous activities at the middle school, which include coaching and club sponsorship. He received his degree in Business Administration from Dominican University and did his certification work at St. Mary's University, where he is currently completing his graduate work.

Robert Colesante is an assistant professor at Siena College and teaches coursework in Educational Psychology and Contemporary Issues in American Education. Before his arrival at Siena in 1997, Dr. Colesante was the student advisor for a newly created Minor in urban Education at the University at Albany and was the Coordinator of Research and Development in Urban Education. In addition, he has served as the coordinator of the Urban Youth Leadership Institute in Albany for three summers.

Matthew Davidson is a doctoral candidate in the education department at Cornell University specializing in educational psychology/human development and program evaluation. Mr. Davidson is an adjunct professor of education at SUNY Cortland where he is also a research associate at the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility). There he is responsible for assisting schools in planning and evaluating comprehensive character education programs.

Sterling Freeman is a 1992 graduate of Davidson College and a student of the London School of Economics. Currently, he is a Masters of Divinity degree candidate at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to being an Associate Minister, Mr. Freeman is a young adult Sunday School teacher and Coordinator of Special Projects at the Greater Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church.

Renée Ghert-Zand is the Director of Judaic Studies at the Solomon Schechter High School of New York, a Conservative Jewish Day High School. In addition to supervising faculty and developing curricula, Ms. Ghert-Zand teaches Bible and rabbinics courses and serves as a liaison to educational and cultural organizations and institutions in the community.

Deborah Holmes has taught fourth grade at Milton Elementary School in Milton, Vermont since 1985. Her teaching career during the past twenty-three years has spanned the world from Iowa to Germany, Montana, and Vermont. The Milton Educational Association awarded Ms. Holmes the Teacher of the Year Award in 1993, and she has been nominated for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching.

Carol Ingall is Associate Professor of Education at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Dr. Ingall's publications include Maps, Metaphors and Mirrors: Moral Education in Middle Schools, a collection of portraits of four middle school teachers who use moral exemplars in their teaching. Her latest work, Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education will be published by the Melton Research Center in 1999.

James H. Johnson, Jr. is the E. Maynard Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Johnson has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and has co-edited theme issues in five scholarly journals on the issues of poverty alleviation, job creation, and community development; entrepreneurship and local economic development; workforce diversity issues, and urban education and social issues.

Elizabeth Kiss came to Duke University in 1997 as the first Director of the Kenan Ethics Program and as Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Philosophy. A former Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Kiss has held fellowships at the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions and at the National Humanities Center.

Shalva Klement has been teaching Hebrew language and literature to high school and college students for many years in Israel and in the states. In addition to teaching, Mrs. Klement coordinates the Hebrew language program at Prozdor Hebrew High School in Brookline, Massachusetts and is developing a three year high school Hebrew curriculum that will incorporate language skills with value content. She is a mother of two and a very recent, very excited, first time grandmother.

Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he has done award-winning work in teacher education. Dr. Lickona is the director of the nationally recognized Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (Respect and Responsibility). His many publications include Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility and Raising Good Children.

Wolfgang Mieder is considered by his peers to be the world's leading authority on the study of proverbs. Dr. Mieder is the founding editor of Proverbium: The Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship and has written and edited over 60 books and dozens of articles on proverbs. He is chairperson of the Departments of German and Russian at the University of Vermont.

Melanie Mitchell is Assistant Director of the Kenan Ethics Program at Duke University. A 1974 graduate of Finch College, Ms. Mitchell has been a teacher, school administrator writer, editor, video producer, and media consultant during the last twenty-five years. As an editor at Random House and Butterick Publishing, she developed elementary and high school classroom materials in a wide range of subject areas.

Larry Nucci is Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he currently serves as Director of the Office for Studies in Moral Development and Character Formation. Dr. Nucci is currently President of the Jean Piaget Society and is working on the book Education in the Moral Domain to be published this year by the Cambridge University Press.

Rabbi Benjamin Samuels received his Bachelor's degree from Yeshiva College and his Master's degree in Medieval Jewish History from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Samuels was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1994. At Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts, Rabbi Samuels is an instructor of Jewish Studies, and he also teaches at Prozdor Hebrew High School. Rabbi Samuels leads the Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

Solomon Schimmel is Professor of Jewish Education and Psychology at Hebrew College in Brookline, MA. Dr. Schimmel was recently a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, England. His most recent book is The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology, published by Oxford University Press.

Phyllis Smith-Hansen has been a teacher at Lansing Central School in Lansing, New York for 28 years. Although Ms. Smith-Hansen has taught a variety of elementary and middle school grade levels, her focus has always been on the development of moral thinking and ethical decision-making. Her efforts were highlighted in the 1989 NBC special "See Dick and Jane Lie, Cheat, and Steal." In 1995, her Life Skills class was featured in the New York Times Magazine. She continues to teach Life Skills at Lansing Middle School and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs.