About Kathleen Kathleen is a career Early Childhood Education specialist. A native of Bountiful, Utah, she taught in a family-owned, Montessori-oriented preschool for four years while attending college. She spent summers as an educational staff member in a program in New York for children with emotional and behavioral handicaps. She graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters Degree in Special Education and then spent five years teaching in a specialized program for behaviorally handicapped children in the Granite School District. Kathleen created that department’s Kindergarten program and was the acknowledged authority on motivating and teaching children in that age group. In 1983 she took a sabbatical to raise her children and founded The Newcastle School the next year. In the early 90’s she discovered Love and Logic® as she was working through common behavioral issues with her own children…. And it worked! She later became a Certified Love and Logic® Facilitator and over the years has taught thousands of parents and teachers to use the Love and Logic® techniques. Kathleen is a frequent community speaker on parenting and teaching with Love and Logic® as well as other aspects of Early Childhood Education. In it’s third decade, The Newcastle School has become a working laboratory for Love and Logic ® methodology. Kathleen is the mother of four grown children who are now raising Kathleen’s nine young grandchildren using Love & Logic® principles. |