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Education Staff

Click on the names below to read their biographies:

Georgia Bozeday, Ed.D.

Julie Gidaspow

Michael Smith

Sarah Minton, MAT

Georgia-Bozeday__DSC6587Georgia Bozeday, Ed.D.

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

Julie-Gidaspow__DSC6356Julie Gidaspow

Educational Specialist

Education and Training

  • Southern Illinois University, B.S. in Elementary Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Function Tutor
    • Develop and Implement Executive Functioning Curriculum
  • Teacher
    • Public and Parochial
    • Primary and Elementary
  • Curriculum Development
  • Curriculum Implementation
  • Teacher Mentoring
  • Parent Support
  • Develop and manage executive functioning curriculum in public and parochial schools

Mike-Smith__DSC6386Michael 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

Sarah-Minton__DSC6343Sarah Minton, MAT

Educational Specialist

Education and Training

  • Dominican University
    • MAT, Elementary Education
  • Washington University in St. Louis
    • B.S., Psychology
    • B.A., Educational Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Function Tutor
  • Teacher
  • Primary and Elementary
  • Curriculum Development
  • Curriculum Implementation
  • Teacher Mentoring
  • Parent Support
  • Develop and manage Executive Functioning curriculum in public and parochial schools

How do you tell if your child needs help?

If you have a sense that something isn’t right, that your child is struggling in school, having trouble making friends, or controlling behavior… >>

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

At RNBC, we value the fact that every child is different. We know, too, that the goals for every child will also be different… >>

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

Executive Functions are cognitive processes that allow people to plan, organize, make decisions, pay attention, and regulate behavior… >>

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