Ray Moore graduated from Virginia Tech in 1977 without any special awards or honors. Oh, okay, it was really 1971. He pursued post-graduate work at Tech, The University of Virginia, The University of Maryland, and Catholic University of America. So far he has not earned any post-graduate degrees.

Since 1971, Ray has taught English at all secondary grade levels. He has also taught psychology and journalism.

In 1991, Ray was asked to chair a committee that would look into the problems that freshman were experiencing at Salem High School. He accepted, knowing that most committees meet a few times and then fade into oblivion. However, this one did not. The result was the beginning of Ray’s experiences transitioning freshmen into high school. 

While Ray has many regrets in life (including dumping a trash can on the head of his seventh-grade math teacher), he believes that his greatest accomplishments in life are his three children. All were championship athletes and did better than he did in school (thank goodness). His son Seth is a senior financial analyst for Lockheed-Martin. Ben is a divinity student and youth minister in Richmond, Virginia. His daughter Moriah has recently returned from two years in the Peace Corps.  She now works in a high school library and coaches volleyball.

Ray and his wife Kelli were married in October of 2006.  They worked together for 18 months to adopt two brothers from Guatemala.   Ray and Kelli finally brought the boys home in August of 2008.  They were met at the airport by a huge cheering crowd of friends and family and other adoptive families.  Daniel and Mateo loved all the balloons and banners and cheers from all those well-wishers for their new American life.  Now a new and exciting adventure begins for this new family of four.

Ray was selected Teacher of the Year in his school division in 1995.

After graduating from Christiansburg High School, Scott Habeeb began his college career at Wake Forest University. He did pretty well there grade-wise, but was incredibly lonely for his beautiful high school sweetheart. So after his sophomore year, he asked the incredibly wonderful, lovely, and intelligent Julie Poff (man, he hopes she's reading this) to be his wife. They got married and Scott transferred to her school - Virginia Tech - where he soon became a rabid Hokie fan.

Being married seemed to help Scott's studies. With Julie making sure he worked hard, Scott graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. Along with being inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, that year, Scott was also the valedictorian of Virginia Tech's History Department and was selected as the Outstanding Senior of the Year for the College of Arts and Sciences. In the fall of 1997, Scott completed work on his Master's of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction, also at Virginia Tech.

In 1997, Scott began teaching ninth grade World History at Salem High School in Salem, Virginia. As a part of his duties, he was a member of, and beginning in 2000, the leader of, one of Salem High School's Freshman Transition Teams. Scott was also the Social Studies Department Chair and was active on Salem High School's Staff Development Committee.

Teaching in the high stakes climate created by the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments became an enjoyable challenge for Scott. He enjoyed working to develop new strategies to help ninth graders achieve. In 2000, his SOL pass rate for World History 1500-present was a low 54%. One year later, after using more innovative techniques, his pass rate rose to over 89% - an increase of 35 points. Even when adjusted for the state's lowering of the cut score for passing, his pass rate still increased by 26 points. A belief that all teachers can make this kind of improvement and a belief that all students can be taught are two of the ideas that motivated him to help found Solutions, etc. in 2002.

In 2004, Scott was named as Salem High School's Assistant Principal of Curriculum and Instruction, replacing his friend and colleague, Dr. Alan Seibert.

Scott's greatest accomplisment to date is the fact that he somehow convinced Julie to marry him. This marriage has led to 4 wonderful children - Kaitlin Ashley, Kelsey Grace, McKenna Reagan, and Matthew Scott. Scott's totally unbiased view is that they are the 4 most beautiful women and 1 most amazing boy in the entire world.