Award-winning researcher and educator Dr. Laura Elizabeth Pinto is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Toronto. She has been teaching in faculties of education for over a decade, and working with new and seasoned members of the teaching profession with an eye to applying evidence and promising practices to their work. Dr. Pinto began her career as a school teacher, which led her to write curriculum policy for the government of Ontario. Before long, she became a policy analyst and policy manager prior to commencing her doctoral studies. She is also a Past President of the Ontario Business Educators' Association. She received the prestigious Canadian Governor General's Gold Medal in 2009 for her research, as well as the Odyssey Award, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Speaker's Book Award. She has received and been involved in large-scale research supported by sought-after Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council grants, for a decade. Dr. Pinto co-authored three Canadian textbooks and related teachers' guides: Insights (Irwin), Business Technology Today (Nelson), and Business Connections (Prentice-Hall). She is also the co-author of 95 Strategies for Remodeling Instruction (Corwin) and author of Curriculum Reform in Ontario: 'Common Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities (University of Toronto Press). She has written dozens of articles in academic and professional journals and co-written provincial curriculum policy, continuing to provide advice to various governments on matters of education policy.