Education Staff

WHO WE ARE — EDUCATION

Click on the names below to read their biographies:

Georgia Bozeday, Ed.D.

Michael Smith

Allie Baron



Georgia Bozeday, Ed.D.

Director of Educational Services, RNBC

Adjunct Professor at National-Louis University

 


Education and Training

  • National-Louis University, Ed.D., Curriculum and Social Justice
  • Post Masters Certification Programs: School Administration, Learning Disabilities, M.Ed., Early Childhood Education
  • Northwestern University, B.S., Speech and Language Pathology
  • State Verification in Gifted Education
  • Illinois School Certification: Administration, Learning Disabilities, Speech and Language Pathology, and Gifted Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Functions
  • Curriculum Design and Implementation
  • Flexible Service Delivery Model for Special and Gifted Education
  • Constructing and Applying Intervention Strategies: Learning, Social/Emotional, and Behavioral Areas
  • Social-Emotional Curriculum Development
  • Character Education Programming

Research

  • Relationship between school-wide curriculum for social-emotional learning and school climate
  • Implementing an intervention-based, problem-solving model in a school program for flexible service delivery
  • Using school-related authentic measurements within an executive functions system

 

 


Michael Smith

Education Specialist

 

 


Education and Training

  • Skidmore College, B.S., Theatre and English

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive Functions Tutor
  • High School Teaching and Curriculum Development
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • Graphic Design

Research

  • Assisting research in assessment of social emotional learning

 

 


Allie Baron

Education Specialist

 

 



Education and Training

  • Columbia College Chicago, M.A.M., Arts in Youth and Community Development
  • Ohio University, B.S., Communication, Public Relations
  • Certificate in Political Communications

Areas of Expertise

  • Program/Curriculum Development
  • Youth Development
  • Project Coordinator

Research

  • Youth Voice and Choice – Theater/Arts Programming (Best Practices- Chicago)