Origins of the knowledge posted here

Me and my first child, now in college

Besides having gone through various stages of development and various systems of education myself, and raising my kids through them all, I've been involved in the other side of those various systems:
-- On the board of directors of a combined preschool and day care (coming up with the slogan "your child's first school and second home") in Wooster OH).
-- As a special education teacher and dropout prevention coordinator in public high schools in Boston.
-- As a middle school intervention specialist doing school and home based counseling for at-risk youth in Syracuse NY.
-- As an elementary school (K-6) counselor in Wooster OH.
-- As the creator of an program of student-led courses, and the creator of a student-run counseling and referral service, at Williams College in Massachusetts.
-- Teaching Psychology courses and professional education programs at various colleges and universities in Ohio and Massachusetts.
-- editing and writing material for introductory, developmental, and abnormal psychology for MacMillan Publishing.
-- as a psychotherapist working with clients involved in day care, preschool, elementary, middle, and high schools, and college and universities, interfacing with professionals in those systems as part of my work.

    Along the way, I've developed some observations about what works at those various levels of education.  This blog will focus on:
1)  ideas (insights, strategies, research, concepts) which relate most directly to the way our minds and identities develop, and
2) ideas that have been useful to my clients and teachers, professors, and other professionals.

Please comment and ask questions!