Muriel K. Rand, is Professor of Early Childhood Education at New Jersey City University. She has spent 20 years working with preschool and elementary teachers in urban public schools. She began her career as a preschool teacher and has been preparing new teachers since 1995. She writes The Positive Classroom blog which focuses on classroom management strategies for teachers of young children: www.thepositiveclassroom.org/ Dr. Rand has published two books of teaching cases: Voices of Student Teachers: Cases from the Field (Merrill, 2003) and Giving it Some Thought: Cases for Early Childhood Practice (NAEYC, 2000). She is also a prolific and successful grant writer. She holds an Ed.D. and an M.S.W. degree from Rutgers University. She can be contacted at murielrand@thepositiveclassroom.org .