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Education Staff

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Georgia Bozeday, Ed.D.

Michael Smith

Terese Burk

Jacy Costa Herman

 

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Director of Educational Services, RNBC
Adjunct Professor at National-Louis University

Illinois School Certification: Administration, Learning Disabilities,
Speech and Language Pathology, and Gifted Education

Education and Training

  • National-Louis University Ed.D., Curriculum and Social Justice
    Post Masters Certification Programs: School Administration, Learning Disabilities
    M.Ed., Early Childhood Education
  • Northwestern University
    B.S., Speech and Language Pathology
    State Verification in Gifted Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Functions
  • Curriculum Design and Implementation
  • Flexible Service Delivery Model for Special and Gifted Education
  • Constructing and Applying Intervention Strategies: Learning, Social/Emotional, and Behavioral Areas
  • Social-Emotional Curriculum Development
  • Character Education Programming

Research

  • Relationship between school-wide curriculum for social-emotional learning and school climate
  • Implementing an intervention-based, problem-solving model in a school program for flexible service delivery
  • Using school-related authentic measurements within an executive functions system

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  •   Michael Smith

   Education Specialist

 

Education and Training

  • Skidmore College, NY
    • B.S. Theatre and English

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Functions Tutor
  • High School Teaching and Curriculum Development
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • Graphic Design

Research

    • Assisting research in assessment of social emotional learning

     Terese Burk

Education Specialist

Education and Training

  • Master of Arts, Curriculum Development, De Paul University Chicago, Illinois
  • Illinois Secondary Education Certification

Areas of Expertise

  • Curriculum Development
  • Executive Functioning Tutor
  • High school and Middle School Educator
  • Adult Basic Education Educator
  • Executive Functioning Skills
  • Social Emotional Learning

Research

    • Assisting research in assessment of social-emotional learning

    Jacy Costa Herman

Education Specialist

Certifications

  • Montessori Early Childhood Certificate, Seton Montessori Institute

Education and Training

  • MS Early Childhood Development, Erkison Institute
  • BA, Columbia College

 Areas of Expertise

  •    Child Development
  •    Curriculum Development
  •     Educational Material Creation
  •     Parent Partnerships
  •     Executive Functioning Skills*
  •     Social Emotional Learning*

 Research 

  • Assisting research in assessment of social-emotional learning

How do you tell if your child needs help?

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Some kids face challenges, but every kid has strengths to build on

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What's Executive
Function and why is it for kids?

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