Lesley Koplow, M.S., L.C.S.W. is the Director of Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street College and founder of Networks for Schools That Heal. She is the author of several books including; Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal, Creating Schools That Heal, Bears, Bears Everywhere: Supporting Children's Emotional Health in the Classroom and Tanya and the Tobo Man. Lesley lives in New York City.