Consult with Educational Companies, Organizations, Personnel, and Parents regarding a variety of educational issues. Private one-on-one tutoring of young students with or without learning disabilities. Coaching and mentoring of parents. Available speaker.

♦ Co-developed Junior Kumon for 4 to 6-year olds, one of KNA’s most successful programs. Provided academic knowledge of early childhood development, created materials, trained staff and instructors, and supplied much media attention for the Junior Kumon Program.♦ Authored numerous articles on topics such as standardized testing, struggling readers, and learning disabilities. Published inside and outside of Kumon throughout North America. ♦ Conducted mentoring of Kumon Instructors and staff via extensive travel throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Japan. ♦ Collaborated with Michigan State University on a scientific research study of Kumon Math. ♦ Succeeded in creating a national media presence to multimillions of individual viewers, listeners, and readers. Skilled at imparting educational knowledge. Published in, or spokesperson for, major newspapers and magazines, radio, TV, e.g. Wall St. Journal, NY Times, LA Times, Newsweek, Child Magazine, NPR Marketplace, ABC, NBC, CBS national evening news. ♦ Delivered Major Presentations at Conferences including:1. Motivation. Presented at the Kumon Mexico Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico2. Struggling Readers. Presented at the Annual Conference of KNA, Montreal3. Understanding Reading Comprehension. Presented at the Annual Conference of KNA, Los Angeles4. Learning Disabilities. Presented at the Annual Conference of KNA, Seattle5. Standardized Testing. Presented at the Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco6. Building the Foundation for Reading Success. Presented at the Annual Conference of KNA, Quebec7. Kinder Kumon. Presented at the Annual Conference of KNA, Chicago8. Understanding Children: Early Childhood Development. Presented at the 10th Anniversary of Kumon San Francisco, San Francisco

♦ Standardized Testing and Evaluation: Conducted initial testing, and evaluation of individual students; wrote reports, made recommendations for students; held conferences with parents and school personnel

♦ Program Development: Coordinated the Young Scholar’s Program to bring gifted junior high and high school students onto the UC Santa Barbara campus to take college classes at the College of Creative Studies in lieu of their junior high or high school classes.

Tested and evaluated thousands of students in 22 Santa Barbara Public Schools for their Gifted and Talented Program.

Administered a wide battery of tests including intelligence, achievement, personality, and aptitude; evaluated and interpreted results; held conferences with parents and school personnel; made recommendations to schools and parents; participated in school team meetings (IEP)

♦ College Level Teaching: Taught statistics to master and doctoral students at UCSB; early childhood development to La Verne College students; assisted doctoral students with their dissertations.♦ University Research & Publications: Researched many projects involving student achievement during doctoral and post-doctoral studies. ♦ Author and co-author of articles on achievement and performance. 1. Notions about Measurement of Achievement, National Institute of Education, Grant No. NIE-G-78-0085, Project No. 8-0244. 2. Achievement Test items—Methods of Study. CSE Monograph Series in Evaluation, No. 6, published by the Center for the Study of Evaluation of Education, UCLA. 3. An Index for a Domain of Completion or Short Answer Items. Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol.3, No. 4. 4. Linear Relations between Cognitive and Affective Test Performance. Doctoral Dissertation 5. A Critical Evaluation of the Doman-Delacato Method of Treatment of Brain-Injured Children. Master’s Thesis.♦ Presentations at Conferences: 1. Item Equivalence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco 2. Improving Teacher Enthusiasm. Paper presented at the annual meeting of California Educational Research Association, Los Angeles