C. Wade Naney is a retired public school classroom teacher. Beginning his teaching career in 1983 at the age of thirty-nine, Naney was a secondary school educator for twenty-eight years. At the time of this writing, he was involved with curriculum development for a charter high school system. Melody Chalkley, a veteran Texas educator, is founder and superintendent of the highly successful Winfree Academy Charter School system serving the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex.