Barbara Sorrels, EdD, is executive director of The Institute for Childhood Education in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a professional-development and consulting firm for those who live and work with children. She has more than twenty years of child care, kindergarten, and elementary teaching experience, as well as more than five years' experience teaching graduate and undergraduate students at the university level.

Dr. Sorrels holds a doctorate in early childhood education from Oklahoma State University, a master's degree in Christian education from Southwestern Seminary, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland. She and her husband have two daughters and one new granddaughter.