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Barry Smith,
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Director
Barry Smith has worked with
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children and youth for over
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20 years. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BA. Barry is the President of CAGE Training & Resources Inc.,
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and the founder of youthlearning.ca. CAGE Training & Resources Inc. produces educational materials and affective learning solutions for all types of organizations, parents and caregivers. CAGE Training & Resources Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love for education and life. Barry
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has a track record of creating strength-based
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programs that allow children to reach their full potential. He is a published author and
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a popular speaker to professionals who work with children and youth.
Mary-Anne Smith,
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Yoga Teacher
Mary-Anne Smith, has been working with young people and their families for over
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10 years as a child & youth care
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professional and family worker. Mary-Anne graduated from Acadia University with a BA in Recreation Management. She is a certified yoga teacher and a dedicated yoga practitioner
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; has devoted her professional career
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to adapting yoga and mindfulness techniques for work with children and teens. Mary-Anne believes that training in yoga and mindfulness has the potential to enhance children's attention and focus, and improve memory. self-acceptance, self-management skills, and self-understanding.
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Advisors
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Charlie Appelstein.
Charlie, whose motto is "There's no such thing as a bad kid", has worked in child welfare for over 25 years. As president of Appelstein Training Resources, LLC, he provides original, strength-based training, consultation, and youth care literature to individuals and groups seeking to better understand and respond to troubled children and youth. Charlie works primarily with residential and foster care programs; children's and adolescent psychiatric facilities; public, private, and special education schools; parent groups; and detention centers.
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"Charlie is the best youth care trainer in America."
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Former President, American Association of Children's Residential Centers
Charlie's first two books, The Gus Chronicles: Reflections from an Abused Kid and No Such Thing As a Bad Kid: Understanding and Responding to the Challenging Behavior of Troubled Children and Youth, are used as training resources in hundreds of child welfare programs, schools, and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Gus Chronicles won the Albert Trieschman Literature Award - Open Category in 1991. His latest book, The Gus Chronicles II, was published in the summer of 2002.
Credentials & Experience
- Twenty-Seven Years of Experience Working in Child Welfare
- Six Years as Program Director and Treatment Coordinator for the Nashua Children's Home, a Residential Treatment Setting in Southern, New Hampshire
- Fifteen Years of Experience as a Workshop Presenter
- First Place Award Recipient in the Albert Trieschman Literature Competition Open Category, 1991
- Received Master of Social Work Degree in 1987 from Simmons College of Social Work
- Consult and Provide Training to Numerous School Systems throughout New England, Primarily in Massachusetts
- Consult and Provide Ongoing Training to Residential Programs throughout the Country
- Created the Successful Train the Trainer Seminar for Senior Residential Care Professionals, and Authored a 100-Plus Page Training Manual
- Frequent Presenter at Regional and National Child Care Conferences
- Provided the Keynote Address at the 2004 CWLA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Listed below is a sampling of the Associations for whom Charlie has Conducted Workshops and/or Provided a Keynote Address:
- American Association of Children's Residential Centers
- Massachusetts Association of Ch766 Approved Private Schools
- Minnesota Council of Child Caring Agencies
- Rhode Island Council of Resource Providers to Children, Youth, and Families
- Massachusetts School Counselors Association
- Missouri Juvenile Justice Association
- Coalition for Family and Children's Services in Iowa
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Charlie lives in Salem, New Hampshire, with his wife, Cheryl, and their daughter, Julie. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, biking, pizza, and his beloved three-time Super Bowl champions, the New England Patriots.
Walter Smith
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Walter is the originator of the theory and practice of
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optologics. Optologics is an objective theory of intelligence. It is used to design affective learning systems where everyone will be successful
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as opposed to competitive education based on various subjective concepts of intelligence. Competitive education is devastating for those who end up on the wrong side of the proverbial bell curve. It destroys
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initiative for the large majority of students because it does not reflect the natural optological learning process. Competitive learning is detrimental to the holistic development of knowledge and the psychological health of immature children and youth.
Affective learning is motivated by natural interest in learning new things and not by competition. It does incorporate competition as an aspect of human nature, but is not a factor in educational assessment. An
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affective learning classroom would be a children's / youth workplace where academics are integrated into an experiential curriculum.
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