Vinci Daro is Associate Director of Mathematics Learning at Understanding Language/Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity (UL/SCALE), and currently serves as mathematics director for the Building Educator Assessment Literacy (BEAL) professional development project. Prior to her work with UL/SCALE, Vinci worked with Ann Shannon & Associates doing professional development with teachers in Kentucky and New York City focused on the Shell Centre Formative Assessment Lessons (Classroom Challenges).

In the late 1990s, she taught mathematics at both Seattle Central Community College and Middle College High School (in Seattle), and has spent the past 18 years developing K-12 mathematics curricula, assessments, and professional development on many different projects, including projects with Learning in Motion, Better Lesson, and the Achievement Network. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a BA in Mathematics and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Phil Daro served on the writing team of the mathematics Common Core State Standards. He continues to work on implementation and policy issues related to the Common Core. He is the lead designer, mathematics, for the pad based Common Core System of Courses developed by Pearson Education. He also works in a partnership of the University of California, Stanford and others with the Oakland and San Francisco Unified School Districts for the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), with a focus on mathematics and science learning.

Previously, Daro was a Senior Fellow for Mathematics for America's Choice, the executive director of the Public Forum on School Accountability, directed the New Standards Project, and managed research and development for the National Center on Education and the Economy. Daro has directed large-scale teacher professional development programs for the University of California, including the California Mathematics Project and the American Mathematics Project.

James (Jim) Malamut is a Math Development and Research Associate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Prior to his work with Stanford, Jim spent the past six years in the classroom as both a teacher and math coordinator. He previously was a founding math teacher at East Bay Innovation Academy in Oakland and a teacher and middle school math coordinator for Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School in Philadelphia.