Natalie Valente is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her M.A. in Instructional Leadership with a specialization in elementary education from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 2001. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign in January 1998. Natalie was a major contributor to constructing the Integrated Social/Moral Curriculum.

e-mail: nvalen2@uic.edu