Dr. Heidi Flavian is a senior lecturer, researcher and Head of the Special Education department at Achva Academic College in Israel. She has also served a senior lecturer in the International Team of the Feuerstein Institute since 2002. Recently, her books Mediation and Thinking Development in Schools (2019), and the one she edited From Pedagogy to Quality Assurance in Education (2020) were published. She is also an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Quality Assurance in Education, after serving as a Guest Editor for the Journal in 2018. In addition, she is a reviewer for several other academic journals. Her main areas of research are new methods in teacher training, mediation, inclusion of people with special needs, students’ thinking processes, and teaching students with special needs.