Dr. Angela Elkordy is an Associate Professor at the National College of Education, National Louis University, Chicago, IL. She is the Founding Director of the Learning Sciences graduate program and served as the Director of Learning Technologies for many years. Dr. Elkordy loves her work teaching in-service teachers and school leaders about cognition and learning, teaching as a design science, instructional technologies, leadership, and research methods. She is the lead author of Design Ed: Connecting Learning Sciences Research to Practice, an ISTE publication (2019) that makes impactful findings of the learning sciences accessible for educators to use in their practice.