Noted author, speaker, and workshop leader, Susan Zimmermann co-founded and served as the executive director of Denver's Public Education and Business Coalition, a public/private partnership that mobilizes business support and involvement in public education. She started numerous programs to improve the quality of public schools, including the Writing and Reading Projects, which have been implemented in over one hundred Colorado schools. These programs provide the examples in Mosaic of Thought, an educational bestseller that presents new and innovative teaching paradigms based on thinking strategies used by proficient readers. Susan has recently published "7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!" with coauthor Chryse Hutchins (Three Rivers Press).