Chip Donohue, PhD, is Dean of Distance Learning and Continuing Education and Director of the TEC Center at Erikson Institute in Chicago. He is a Senior Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College, where he co-chaired the working group that revised the 2012 NAEYC & Fred Rogers Center Joint Position Statement on Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8. Chip is the editor of two books, Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years: Tools for Teaching and Learning (2015) andFamily Engagement in the Digital Age: Early Childhood Educators as Media Mentors (2017), co-published by Routledge/NAEYC. In 2012 he received the Bammy Award and Educators Voice Award as Innovator of the Year from the Academy of Education Arts & Sciences. In 2015, he was honored as a children’s media Emerging Pioneer at the KAPi (Kids At Play International) Awards.

Sallee Beneke is professor of early childhood education at St. Ambrose University where she directs the Master’s in Early Childhood Education program.  She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in inclusive curriculum, child development, early childhood math methods, early childhood science methods, and early childhood social studies methods. Sallee has authored and co-authored several books and many articles on the Project Approach, Inclusion, and Documentation.  Her new book, Implementing the Project Approach in Inclusive Early Childhood Classrooms, is coauthored with Dr. Michaelene Ostrosky and Dr. Lilian Katz. It features an Implementation Checklist intended to support teachers who are learning to teach with this approach. Sallee is a consultant on the Project Approach to the Illinois Early Learning Project (https://illinoisearlylearning.org). She is also a blogger for the website, (https://illinoisearlylearning.org/resources/blogs/perspectives/) and co-facilitates the Project Approach Facebook group. Sallee has developed an annual Summer Institute on the Project Approach that draws participants from around the world, and in 2013 she was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education at the University of Illinois.