Lesley Koplow is a child psychotherapist, teacher, and author of several books, including: Tanya and the Tobo Man, Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal, Creating Schools That Heal, Bears, Bears, Everywhere-Supporting Children's Emotional Health in the Classroom, Politics Aside: Our Children and Their Teachers in Score- Driven Times, and Emotionally Responsive Practice: A Path for Schools That Heal. She is the director of the Center for Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street and Networks for Schools That Heal. She lives in New York City.