Dayna Laur’s arc of professional learning began in 1998 as a social studies teacher and career academy coordinator and grew to include special education, Advanced Placement, and adult education. Dayna’s doctoral-level work focuses on the research of connecting learners to technical experts for their value-added feedback to improve authentic challenge outcomes. Specifically, she is interested in the ways these connections can occur virtually to overcome the logistical challenges many rural schools experience. Since 2008, Dayna’s used her diverse facilitation and coaching expertise to interact, globally, with PreK to post-secondary professionals. As a co-founder of Project ARC, Dayna strives to empower educators and their learners by implementing authentic project learning experiences, a topic she pioneered in her 2013 book, Authentic Learning Experiences: A Real-World Approach to PBL. Her most recent publications Authentic Project-Based Learning in Grades 4-8 (and 9-12): Standards-Based Strategies and Scaffolding for Success were released in late 2019.