EDWARD "Ed" GAMBLE is a life long teacher and educator, having served as science teacher, assistant headmaster, and headmaster at three private and Christian schools since 1970. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Gamble is a graduate of University of Memphis with BS in Zoology/Chemistry and MAT in Secondary Education. After serving eleven years as Headmaster at The First Academy at Orlando, Ed accepted GodŐs call to become the national Executive Director of the Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools (SBACS). SBACS is the organization that represents the interests of nearly 650 Southern Baptist Christian schools to the Southern Baptist denomination at the national level. Married for 32 years to Wanda, his high school sweetheart, they have three children ages 28, 23 and 16. Mr. Gamble is a member of First Baptist Church Orlando where he and his wife have been teaching a married adults Sunday School class for thirteen years. He is a life-long Southern Baptist and a licensed Southern Baptist minister.

Ed Gamble

John Taylor Gatto

JOHN TAYLOR GATTO is a celebrated author, speaker, and New York City and State Teacher of the Year. He did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the U.S. Army medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva, the University of California, and Cornell. His teaching career climaxed when Mr. Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year, after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called "An Evening With John Taylor Gatto." This launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Mr. Gatto over a million and a half miles in all fifty states and seven foreign countries. In 1997, he was given the Alexis de Tocqueville Award for his contributions to the cause of liberty. His books include Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Exhausted School, A Different Kind of Teacher; and The Underground History Of American Education. Mr. Gatto is currently at work, with his friend and former student, Roland Legiardi-Laura, on a documentary film about the nature of modern schooling entitled The Fourth Purpose.