barry@youthlearning.ca
Barry Smith, President and Chief Thinker
Barry Smith has worked with young people that have faced challenges for over 15 years. President of CAGE Training & Resources Inc., Barry is the founder of The YOUth Learning Program™ dedicated to enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love for education. Barry provides strength-based tutoring and training designed to cultivate the potential of all. He is a published author and considered an expert on using a strength-based approach to dealing with the problem of bullying.
Mary-Anne Smith, Yoga Facilitator, Youth Advocate
Mary-Anne Smith, has been working with young people and their families for over 20 years as a child & youth care worker and advocate. She is a dedicated yoga practitioner and has devoted her professional career to adapting mindfulness techniques for work with children. Mary-Anne believes that training in mindfulness has the potential to enhance children's attention and focus, and improve memory. self-acceptance, self-management skills , and self-understanding.
Directors and Advisors
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.
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.
Walter is the originator of the theory and practice of affective non-competitive education as a way to unify holistic educational practices. Affective Education is based on the idea that we can design education systems where everyone will be successful if we begin with that policy. It is in contrast with competitive education where there has to be winners and losers because we start out with that alternative policy. Competitive education is devastating for those who end up on the wrong side of the proverbial bell curve. It destroys intitiative. This is especially true for children and youth who have not reached the maturity to fully comprehend the nature of competition.
Affective Education 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 affective education classroom would be a children's / youth workplace where academics are integrated into an experiential curriculum.
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