Educational Degrees and Credentials

M.S., Special Education, with a Specialization in Learning Disabilities - California Lutheran University - Primary work in Cognitive Skill and Language Development

California Community College Credential - Disabled Student Programs & Services - Learning Disabilities Specialist and Instructor

Teaching Credentials: Single Subject in Social Sciences and Multiple Subjects Credentials - UC Santa Barbara

B.A. degrees in Sociology (emphasis - Comparative Educational Systems) and Religious Studies (emphasis - Philosophies of the East) - UC Santa Barbara

Employment

Santa Barbara City College, Disabled Student Programs & Services - Learning Disabilities Specialist, instruction, counseling, and assessment (100% as of Jan. 2000)

Current SBCC Course: DSPS 77: Writing and Reading Strategies

Prior Courses: DSPS 74: Critical Thinking Skills; DSPS 73: Spelling & Word Attack; DSPS 44: Self-Advocacy (team taught)

Grant Projects

Accessibility Project, Institute of World Culture, a non-profit educational organization in Santa Barbara

CASE: Coaching for Academic Success and Excellence, originally a donor-funded program that is being integrated into DSPS. The focus is on time management and organization; with Janet Shapiro, Ed.D., 2004-Current

Online Faculty Development Courses: Riverside CC's www.4faculty.org: "Cognitive Methods", "Lesson Plan Considerations"; Santa Barbara CC's www.4SBCCfaculty.org: "Learning Disabilities" (Select "Learning Disabilities" from left column)

Gyrus - Rapid Course Development System - Resource Browser: Learning Skills 1999-2001. Index of Learning Skill entries. The complete set of Learning Skill entries will be posted on this website as time permits.

Student Success Grant Resources for professors

Trainings

CCC Eligibility Model for Learning Disabilities Services; Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised and WJ III; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised; CCC High Tech Center Learning Disabilities and Acquired Brain Injury Technology; Orton-Gillingham/ Slingerland; Lindamood's Auditory Discrimination in Depth; Bell's Visualizing and Verbalizing; Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Program and Learning Potential Assessment Device; University of Kansas's Strategies Intervention Model and Content Enhancement Series; South Coast Writing Project; Critical Thinking

Interests

Understanding how people learn. See the "Archives" for the Question of the Week Series: for Teachers; for Students.

Integration of Philosophy, Psychology, and Pedagogy

Creating websites for free sharing of information to benefit the public good - Committee on Teaching and Learning. Currently, CTL Chair; LD website

Writing: Editor, Visions, DSPS Student Publication; former editor, California Association on Postsecondary Education and Disability's Communiqué

Literature - universal ideas as portrayed in world cultures, ancient and modern; poetry; drama

Art - drawing; design and color

Metaphysics, cosmology, galaxies

Non-violence (i.e., Gandhi, King) and its influence in problem solving, communication, politics, civil duties, society, & just about everything...

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