Dr. Janet S. Twyman, is a noted proponent of effective instructional practices. She is committed to evidence-based instruction and has a strong record in the transfer of instructional technology and developing web-based programs for wide-scale distribution. A career educator, she has been a preschool and elementary school teacher, a principal and administrator, and university professor. She has worked directly with typically developing students, preschoolers with intellectual disabilities, young adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems, and learners with autism spectrum disorders. As vice president of Instructional Development, Implementation, and Research at Headsprout, she led the design, development, and dissemination of the company’s highly regarded educational programs, and oversaw program implementation in over 1,000 public and private schools. Dr. Twyman has served on the boards of numerous organizations including the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (where she chaired the Education Group) and PEER International (assisting township schools in Port Elizabeth, South Africa). In 2007-08 she served as president of ABAI. In her role with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School/E. K. Shriver Center, she focuses her time on evidence-based innovations in education and the systems that support them to produce meaningful difference in learners’ lives. Dr. Twyman was also recently named as the director of Innovation & Technology for the U.S. Dept. of Education’s national Center on Innovations in Learning.