Miriam Ben-Peretz PhD is professor emeritus at the faculty of education University of Haifa Israel. She has served as the head of the Department of Teacher Education and Dean of the School of Education University of Haifa. Her research interests are curriculum studies teacher education professional development and policy-making in education. Among her books: The Teacher-Curriculum Encounter: Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts (SUNY 1990) and Learning from Experience: Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching (SUNY 1995). Her latest book is entitled Policy Making in Education: A Holistic Approach in Response to Global Changes (Rowman & Littlefield 2009). Received the Lifetime Achievement Award Division B Curriculum Studies of the American Educational Research Association (1997). Recipient of the Israel Prize for Research in Education (2006). She is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association Division K Legacy Award and an Honorary Fellow of the Open University of Israel (2012). Sara Kleeman completed her PhD at the Institute of Education University of London in 1999 and became the head of the Elementary Teachers' Department at Oranim. She serves as the head of the Center of Resource Consultation and Training at Oranim Academic College and as a Coordinator of the Pedagogical Instruction specialization at the MOFET Institute. She is currently focused on the issue of professional development of teacher educators at Oranim and the MOFET Institute as a researcher and lecturer. Rivka Reichenberg completed her PhD at the School of Education Bar Ilan University in Israel (1996). She has served as the Head of Special Education Department at Beit-Berl Academic College of Education as a senior lecturer and researcher. Her research interests are teaching and teacher education induction and professional development. She presently serves as the head of the Pedagogical Instruction and Mentoring Specialization Program in Mofet Institute focusing on the issue of professional development of teacher educators in the colleges and in the Mofet Institute as a lecturer and researcher. Sarah Shimoni PhD is a teacher educator and a counselor in research methods and academic writing. Dr. Shimoni is a lecturer at the Levinsky School for graduate studies and does editing work for the MOFET Publishing House in Tel Aviv Israel. Her research interests are: teachers' and teacher educators' professional development professional discourse and inclusion of children with learning difficulties in the general education system. . Language: English