Diane Trister Dodge, M.S., is the founder and president of Teaching Strategies, Inc., a company that seeks to improve the quality of early childhood programs by developing and providing training on comprehensive curriculum and assessment systems for children under 5. She has been a preschool and kindergarten teacher; served as the education coordinator for Head Start and child care programs in Mississippi and Washington, D.C.; and directed national projects in education and human services. Ms. Dodge is the lead author of The Creative Curriculum^® and is a well-known speaker. She served on the Governing Board of NAEYC (1990–1994) and the Center for the Child Care Workforce (1995–2002), and she has been a member of the D.C. Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Development (since 1984). For the 2002–2003 academic year, Diane was the Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Early Childhood Lecturer at Iowa State University. In October 2004, she received the Bank Street College Alumni Association Recognition Award for outstanding accomplishments in the field of education.