Dr. D. Ray Reutzel is a senior research fellow in the Center for the School of the Future at Utah State University and an emeritus faculty member and former dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming. Reutzel served as an author and advisor to research-validated programs including i-Ready, Magnetic Reading Foundations, and Magnetic Reading. He is the author of more than 235 published pieces, is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, and served as its president from 2017–2019.

Dr. Parker C. Fawson is the Emma Eccles Jones Endowed Chair of Early Education and director of the Center for the School of the Future at Utah State University. He is a former dean of the School of Education at Utah Valley University and past president of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers and is currently a member of the Utah Science of Reading Expert Panel. He has authored many pieces on early reading, reading motivation, and at-risk readers and is co-author of Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power.