Linda B. Pincham is Associate Professor Emerita, Roosevelt University, College of Education. Illinois. For over twenty years at Roosevelt, she taught students preparing to become middle and high school teachers and served as chair in secondary education. Prior to joining the university, she taught English language arts at the middle and high school level for thirteen years and was a middle school assistant principal and principal for eleven years. Dr. Pincham has focused her work on the adolescent learner. She directed a special program at Roosevelt for adolescent girls, GO-GIRL, to promote adolescent girls’ interest in STEM. She has published articles on adolescent learning, instructional strategies in the middle school classroom, and first-year experiences of minority college students. She has also presented at numerous state, regional, national, and international conferences. Dr. Pincham completed her undergraduate degree in English at Virginia State University, received her master’s degree in educational administration and supervision from George Mason University, and earned an Ed.D. in educational administration from Virginia Tech. Although retired, Dr. Pincham’s research interests remain in the roles that teachers and school leaders play in the developmental needs of the young adolescent.