Curriculum Vitae Jane M. Healy�� 4266 Columbine Drive�� Vail, Colorado 81657 (970) 476-9351� Fax: (970) 476-2913 Educational Background Postdoctoral courses in Developmental Neuropsychology: Columbia Teachers’ College Boston Children’s Hospital Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Case Western Reserve University. M.A., Reading Specialist certification with emphasis on diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities, John Carroll University. B.A., Major: Psychology; Minor: Education, Smith College. Professional Experience Educational Therapist; consultant; lecturer. Private practice, Vail, CO. (1989 - present) Vail Mountain School. Learning consultant. (1989 - 1999) Cleveland State University, College of Education, Adjunct Assistant Professor. (1980 -1990) Hathaway Brown School. Learning Specialist and Coordinator of Learning Services. Grades Pre-K-12. (1980 - 1989) Cleveland State University, College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Foundations: Visiting Assistant Professor. (1986 - 1987) California Neuropsychology Services. Faculty Member, 1988-89. National Association of Independent Schools. Workshop presenter and lecturer. School consultant. (1985 - present) Hathaway Brown School. Head of Primary School. Reading/Learning Specialist, Grades Pre-K-4. (1975 - 1980). Hathaway Brown School. Reading/Learning Specialist. Grades Pre-K-12. Willoughby-Eastlake, Ohio, Schools. Learning Disability Tutor. Shaker Heights, Ohio, City Schools. Substitute teacher. Berkeley-Peckham Jr. High, Middletown, R.I.� Teacher: English, Phys. Ed., Health. Courses Taught C.S.U.: Graduate Courses Psychology of Learning and Instruction��� EDB 620 Reading and Language Arts: Kindergarten/Primary��� EDL 616 Reading Foundations��� EDB 604 Bringing the Brain to School��� EDT 672 Psychology of the Adolescent Learner��� EDE 619 ��� Undergraduate Courses Foundations of Reading��� EDB 340 Psychological Concepts in Education��� EDB 320 John Carroll University: ��� Graduate Courses Trends and Innovations in Reading Instruction Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Disabilities Bringing the Brain to School: Neuropsychology of Learning ��� Undergraduate Courses Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Disabilities California Neuropsychology Services: Applying Neuropsychology in Classroom and Clinic Conference Organizer National Association of Independent Schools Whole Language in the Middle School U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families and Head Start. “Television and the Developing Brain.” Washington, D.C. Oct. 2, 1992. Publications Books Healy, J. (2004: in press) Your Child’s Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development (third revised edition). N.Y.: Doubleday/Broadway Books. Healy, J.� (1999). Failure to Connect:� How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds.� N.Y:� Simon & Schuster/Touchstone.� Translated into Swedish, Japanese,� Chinese. Healy, J. (1997, Revised Edition). �Endangered Minds:� Why Our Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It. N.Y.: Touchstone/ Simon and Schuster. Translated into Japanese, Chinese,� and Portuguese. Healy, J. (1994). How to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations with Your Kids.� N.Y.: Doubleday, Inc. Translated into Chinese and Greek. Healy, J. (1994, Revised Edition). Your Child’s Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development. N.Y.: Doubleday, Inc. Translated into Spanish, Swedish and Japanese. Healy, J., Popkin M., & Youngs, B. (1995). Parents on Board (Book and Video.) Marietta, GA: Active Parenting Publishers. Chapters Healy, J.� (2003: in press) Cybertots: Technology and the Preschool Child.� In S. Olfman (Ed.) All Work and No Play...How Educational Reforms are Harming our Preschoolers.� Greenwood Press. Healy, J. (1991). Endangered Minds: Children’s Learning in Today’s Culture. In D. Dickinson (Ed) Creating the Future. U.K: Accelerated Learning Systems Ltd. Aram, D. and Healy, J. (1987). Hyperlexia: A Review of Extraordinary Word Reading. In L. Obler and D. Fein (Eds.). The Exceptional Brain: Neuropsychology of Talent. N.Y.: Guilford Press. Healy, J. and Vail, P. (1986). Assessment of the Young Child. In Thatcher, N. and Hoppin, C. (Eds.) Elementary School Admissions Handbook. NAIS: Boston. Selected Articles Healy, J. (1978). Catching Learning Problems Early. Independent School, 38 (2). Healy, J. (1981). A Study of Hyperlexia. Doctoral Dissertation. Healy, J. (1982). Getting the Brain Behind the Curriculum. Independent School, 42 (2). Reprinted in Educational Excellence Network, II (5), 1983. Healy, J. Aram, D., Horwitz, S. and Kessler, J. (1982). A Study of Hyperlexia. Brain and Language, 17. Healy, J. (1984). Building Brain Power. Parents League Review. Healy, J. (1986). Dogbreath, Superbaby, and the S.A.T. Independent School, 46 (3). Healy, J., and Aram, D. (1986). Hyperlexia and Dyslexia: A Family Study. Annals of Dyslexia, 36. Healy, J. Brainpower. (1986). Parent’s Magazine, 61 (2). Healy, J. (1987). How Parents Can Help Their Kids Learn. PTA Today, 13 (2). Healy, J. (1988). Helping Your Child Through the Middle-School Years. Working Woman. Dec. Healy, J. (1988). Preventing Birth Defects of the Mind. Parent’s Magazine, November. Healy, J. (1990). Helping Kids Hear Their Inner Voices. Learning ‘90, September. Healy, J. (1990). Ten Reasons Why “Sesame Street” is Bad News for Reading. Education Week. September 19. Healy, J. (1991). TV and Video Shape the Developing Brain. Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter 7 (12). Healy, J. (1993). Visual Technology: Vacuous or Visionary? Holistic Education Review. Summer Healy, J. (1995). Nurturing the Growing Brain. NAMTA Journal, 20 (1). Healy, J. (1995). The Learners of Tomorrow. Music Educators National Conference Journal. Healy, J.� (1995).� How Your Child”s Mind Grows. �Scholastic Parent and Child, Spring. Healy, J.� (1998).� Endangered Minds: TV and the Growing Brain.� AAP News. American Academy of Pediatrics. Healy, J.� (1998).� The ‘Meme’ that Ate Childhood.� Education Week, October 7. Healy, J.� (1999).� The Mad Dash to Compute.� The School Administrator, April. Healy, J.� (1999.� On Today ( Interview.)� Technos, 8(4).� Healy, J. (2000) interviewed by Carol Tell.� The I-Generation—from Toddlers to Teenagers:� A Conversation with Jane M. Healy. ASCD: Educational Leadership, 58(2). Healy, J.� (2000).� Commentary:� Looking to the Future.� The Future of Children, 10(2). Healy, J.� (2003).� Young Children Don’t Need Computers.� NAESP: Principal.� May/June. Reviews Healy, J. (1991). Review of de Sanneville, L., and Njiokiktjien, C. and Cummins, R Pediatric Behavioral Neurology, (Vol. 2). The Neurologically. Impaired Child.� Contemporary Psychology Review. Healy.� (1999).� Review of Gardner, H. The Disciplined Mind.� Boston Sunday Globe,� May 23. Video Healy, J. (1991). “Training the Brain to Learn.” Vineyard Video Productions. Selected Papers and Presentations 1986-present “Teaching the Executive Brain in an Electronic World: Challenges and Strategies.” Workshop, Lake Forest Day School, Chicago, August, 2003. “Connected or Disconnected?� The Growing Brain in an Electronic Age.” Keynote address:� Annual Meeting Canadian Assn. For the Education of Young Children.� Vancouver, April, 2003. “Loss of Childhood and Loss of Self in a Media Culture.” Keynote address:� National Assn. For Learning Disabilities.� Orlando, Feb, 2002. “Beyond Technology:� the Growing Brain in a New World.”� Keynote address: Annual Conference, Association Montessori Internationale, Minneapolis, July, 2002. “Failure to Connect:� New Challenges in Education in the 21st Century”.� Congres Montessori International, UNESCO:� Paris, France, June 2001. . “Connected or Disconnected?� Computers and the Growing Brain.”: Keynote address:� B.C. Special Education Assn. Annual Meeting.� Vancouver, March, 2002. National Council for Computers in Education:� Seattle, March, 2002 Merriconeague Waldorf School Forum, October 2002. Kingsbury Center, Washington, DC, November 2002. �Keynote address:;� Technology in Education Conference:� Snowmass, CO� June 2001. International Forum on Globalization, NY, February, 2001. National Association of Independent Schools� Annual Conf., Feb. 1999. National Assn for the Education of Young Children Annual Conf.� Nov, 1998. Others:� 1998-present “Technology and Child Development.� NIH:� Board on Children, Youth, and Families.� Washington, DC, January, 2001 �“Intelligence for a Digital Age” (keynote) and “Pressured Children---Pressured Schools” (workshop).� NESA Teacher’s Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 2000. “Computers and Children’s Brain Development.”� American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago, April, 2000. “Virtual Minds”.� Featured Address, 8th East-West Philosophers’ Conference, Honolulu, January, 2000. “Minds of the Future.”� NY:� Teachers College, Columbia, April, 2000. “The Technology of Imagination.”� Keynote address:� Young Audiences of Indiana, Art Education Institute.� Indianapolis, June, 2000. “Understanding the Middle School Brain.”� Workshop:� Indian Mt. School, CT, August, 2000. “The Child’s Growing Mind:� Brain Development and Learning.”� Keynote Address:� Parent-Child 2000 Conference, London, England, April, 2000. “’Good’ Pressure and ‘Bad’ Pressure: Helping Young Children Become Motivated Learners.”� European Council of International Schools Annual Conf. : Nice, France, Nov. 1999. �“Developing Creative Minds for the 21st Century.”� ����������� Presented at numerous schools,conferences, and community events, 1996-present. “Brains, Motivation, and the Nintendo Generation: A New Look at Reading Problems.” Featured Address: International Reading Association Annual Conference. Anaheim, CA. May, 1995. “New Brains, New Schools?” Featured Address: American Association of School Administrators, New Orleans, LA. February, 1995. “Bringing the Brain to School.” Keynote address, Washington State Commission on Student Learning. First Annual Conference. Ellensburg, WA. January, 1994. Repeated for Second Annual Conference, January, 1995. “Endangered Minds or Minds for a New Century: Choices for Educators.” Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. February, 1994. Workshop: Talent Bank Symposium Speaker. Anchorage, Alaska. April, 1994. “Teaching the Media Generation to Read, Write, and Reason.” Keynote address, Homeschool and Family Learning Fair. Spokane, WA. June, 1994. “Children’s Minds: Endangered or Empowered?” Keynote address, Association Montessori International Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. July 1994. “Working with Learning Disabilities in a Media Culture.” Keynote address, Learning Disabilities Association of Arizona Annual Conference. Mesa, AZ. October 1994. (Repeated for New York State LDA Association and Southeastern Branch, Illinois Branch, and Oregon Branch of Orton Dyslexia Society. 1994 - 95.) “Endangered Minds, Critical Thinking, and the Media: The Cool/Sucks Dichotomy.” Keynote address, Media Literacy Conference. Albuquerque, NM. October, 1994. “Brains, Motivation and the Nintendo Generation.” Annual Conference, European Council of Independent Schools. Hamburg, Germany. November 1994. “Language Strategies for the Media Generation.” California School Leadership Academy Annual Conference, Long Beach. January, 1993; San Francisco, January 1994. “New Brains for a New Century: The Potential of Dyslexia.” Keynote address, Scottish Dyslexia Association Annual Meeting. Edinburgh, Scotland. September, 1993. “The Student of Tomorrow.” Keynote address, Music Educators’ National Conference. Reston, VA. October, 1993. “Technology and the Growing Brain.” Keynote address, Ohio Educational Library Media Association Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH. October, 1993. Also Keynote address for Colorado Educational Media Association. Colorado Springs. February, 1993. “Teaching the Media Generation to Read, Write and Reason.” Keynote address, Southwest International Reading Association Annual Conference. Tulsa, OK. November 1993. �“Wobbly Hearts and New Brains: The Potential of Dyslexia.” Keynote address, Orton Dyslexia Society Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. November 1992. “Endangered Minds: Music Education in a Changing Culture.” Keynote address, National Association of Music Educators: Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 1992. “Surviving ‘Sesame Street‘: Educating Young Children in a Media Culture.” Keynote address, Colorado Association for the Education of Young Children. October , 1992. Also presented at NAEYC National Conference, New Orleans, November 1992. �“Teens, Sex, and T.V.” Seminar. York, PA, October, 1992. “Montessori Meets the Nintendo Generation.” Keynote address, 32nd Annual American Montessori Society Annual Seminar, Chicago, April, 1992. “Teaching Today’s Students.” Seminar. Educational Leadership for a Competitive America. United States Office of Personnel Management, Oak Ridge, TN, July, 1992. “Endangered Minds: Pressured Children in a Video World,” Keynote address; and “Teaching Young Children to Read.” European Council of International Schools Annual Conference. Geneva, Switzerland, April, 1992. Panelist. “Communities and Their Schools: New Tools for Teaching and Learning.” Televised seminar. Penn State University, April, 1991. “Understanding the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Middle Schools.” National Association of Elementary School Principals Annual Convention. Anaheim, CA, April, 1991. “Pressured Students, Pressured Schools: From Superbaby to the SAT.” Keynote address, North Carolina Teacher’s Conference, Annual Meeting, 1990. “Avoiding Whole Language Casualties.” Invited address, Orton Dyslexia Society, New York, Annual Conference, 1990. “Social Skills and the Uses of Language.” One-day Workshop: North Central Ohio Special Education Regional Resource Center, 1990. “Training Brains to Learn.” Study Skills Conference, Teacher’s College, Columbia, 1989. “A Learning Specialist Looks at Pressured Preschoolers.” Keynote address, Tennessee Association for Young Children, 1989. “Bringing the Brain to School.” Keynote address, St. Nicholas Montessori Association Annual Conference, 1988. “Neurodevelopmental Perspectives on learning.” Keynote address, Indiana Association of Independent Schools Annual Meeting, 1988. “Variations in Development and their Effects on Learning.” Featured address, Annual Conference, Educational Records Bureau, N.Y., 1987. “The Gifted and Learning Disabled Child.” Grand Rounds, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic, 1987. “Bringing the Brain to School: The Academic Leader’s Challenge.” Keynote address, Annual Meeting, Elementary School Head’s Association, Chicago,1987. “Problem Solving With the Female Brain.” Women Professionals’ River Seminar, Canyonlands Field Institute, Moab, UT, 1987. “What Speech and Language Therapists Should Know About Reading.” The Northern Ohio Association of Speech and Hearing Therapists. Akron, 1986, Lorain, OH., 1987. “A Learning Specialist Looks at Superbaby.” Keynote address, Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children. Dayton, 1986. “Decoding vs. Comprehension: Teaching Reading for Meaning.” Orton Dyslexia Society, Philadelphia, 1986. “Math, LOGO, and the L.D. Child.” Annual Conference, N.Y. Orton Society, New York City, 1985. “Reading Profiles of Hyperlexic Children.” Annual Meeting, International Neuropsychological Society: Aachen, West Germany, 1984. “Evaluating the Elementary School Child.” NAIS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 1983. Annual Meeting. Independent Schools of Massachusetts, 1984.“The Syndrome of Hyperlexia.” Neurology Grand Rounds, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH., 1982. Funded Grants The Foxhollow Grant Program: Funding for experimental faculty training and student/parent awareness program with EQUALS staff members for University of California, Berkeley, to emphasize problem solving in all disciplines, K-12, and raise consciousness of careers in math and science for girls. (1984). The Gund Foundation: Support to purchase computer equipment, software, staffing, and training to establish an experimental LOGO curriculum, Pre. K-6th grade at Hathaway Brown School, and conduct LOGO training sessions for N.E. Ohio teachers. (1983 - 1987). NAIS Academic Grants: Funding for one-day seminar for greater Cleveland area early childhood educators: “Update: Early Childhood Education.” (June, 1980). Honors and Awards Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi Magna Cum Laude, Smith College Jack Bares Award Hathaway Brown School Distinguished Alumna Award Junior League of Cleveland: Frances Payne Bolton Professional Award Delta Kappa Gamma 1988 Educator’s Award (for Your Child’s Growing Mind) Delta Kappa Gamma 1991 Educator’s Award (for Endangered Minds) Pearl Rieger Award, 2002:� Rush Neurobehavioral Center,� Chicago. Professional Memberships American Psychological Association International Neuropsychological Society International Reading Association International Dyslexia Association Author’s Guild National Association for the Education of Young Children Related Professional Activities 1979 - present Member, Elementary/Middle School Committee, National Association of Independent Schools, 1985 - 1989. Grand Rounds, Dept. of Psychiatry: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, “The Dyslexic Brain: Current Concepts.” 1988. Member, Head Search Committee, Hathaway Brown School, 1986. Member, Head Search Committee, Hathaway Brown School, 1979. Consultant on reading and learning disabilities: Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio. 1980 - 1985. Chair, Campus School Visiting Committee, Smith College, 1988 - 1992. Member, Vail Symposium Board, 1991 - 1996 Member, Advisory Board, Scholastic Publications, 1994 - 96 Member, Advisory Board, The Literacy Project, Vail, CO.� 2000-present. Member, Board of Trustees, Hathaway Brown School.� 2001-present. Selected Media Appearances “Good Morning America” “Nightline” “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition” and numerous other NPR shows PBS Special:� “The Digital Divide” “Today” Show “Sonya Live”� (CNN) �“Medline� (CNN) “Touching The Future “Parents Journal” - Regular guest, 1988 - 1999 “The Osgood File”� CBS NYT Online Voice of America News BBC Television, London Channel One “The Merrow Report”� NPR Certification Ohio Professional Teaching Certificate K -8, reading. Personal Married, 3 children, 6 grandchildren. |
