Christyn Dundorf, PhD, Christyn Dundorf, PhD, is codirector of Teaching Preschool Partners, a nonprofit organization working to grow playful learning and inquiry practices in school-based pre-K programs and infuse those practices up into the early grades. She has more than 30 years of experience in the early learning field as a teacher, administrator, and adult educator. In Oregon, Dr. Dundorf directed the introduction of the state's professional development registry. She developed a statewide mentoring project for the field, led efforts to articulate not-for-credit credentials into associate degree programs, and set in motion a number of statewide leadership development efforts. For over a decade, Dr. Dundorf served as the early childhood education department chair for Portland Community College, leading the program to receive one of the first NAEYC Associate of Applied Science program accreditations in Oregon. Dr. Dundorf served on the work group to revise NAEYC's position statement on ethics and collaborated on ethics professional development with the founding coauthor of Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code.