Vivian Troen has been with the Mandel Induction Partnership Project since its inception in 2005. For over three decades Vivian has been a teacher, leader, advocate of the professionalization of teaching, and innovator in educational reform. She is a partner and co-founder of the Educational Research/Consulting Group, a consultancy that delivers change-agent educational programs to teachers, schools, school systems, and government agencies worldwide. She is the co-author of Who’s Teaching Your Children? Why the teacher crisis is worse than you think and what can be done about it (Yale University Press). Vivian and her husband are addicted to adventure travel and like to hike and camp with their seven grandchildren.