Dr. Carla Hannaford is an biologist and an educator with over 40 years of teaching experiences as a teacher of biology and an advisor to primary and secondary school children with learning challenges. She is the author of several awarded books and for over 20 years she has consulted and held workshops in over 48 countries around the world. She has been quoted in thousands of science articles and books and wrote four books of her own. The books have been translated to several foreign languages. One of them, Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head, was written in 1995 and explains the role of our body in thinking and learning. At the same time she used numerous research to show that movement is an essential part of learning. Today, the book is more relevant than ever before.