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Hello, Welcome to the School Psychology Network for central ohio sponsored by SST11. I am Gale Kingsley, wiki and network facilitator; I have been a school psych since 1980ish, and after 4 years as a school psychologist in the field, I was the school psychologist on the assessment team at the old COSERRC for 25 years. It was great to have a standing team of the same people (OT,Speech,Master Teacher and myself) for that length of time. It was also interesting to go to many schools in Franklin County and the surrounding counties over that period of time. I received my M.A. at OSU. I arrived for the last year Engin was there and the first year for Genshaft; the program was pretty much a assessment orientation with dabbling in the other major areas. There were only 4 in my class! I interned at Franklin county with 3 other interns from Bowling Green. I have a license through the Ohio Board of Psychology for school psychology. Since I have not practiced in an actual school for some time, I will be glad to get feedback from all of you who do. I have had the luxury of being able to dabble in a number of different pathways to understanding students who struggle. I have focused on behavior issues for some time, and I provide the FBA/BIP workshops here at the escco. I am most focused on tier3 issues, but because of training exposure over the past 5 years have been extended to building district teams with the Ohio Improvement Process. I had a ton of information and resources on my hard drive that was research based(until my computer was stolen from our office), including many journal issues related to school psychology. At least I know where to get the information when needed. In addition to work, other interests include 30 years of owning, breeding and training belgian shepherd dogs, birding, and (for the past 6 years) fly fishing. My wife (also a school psychologist) and I have been to europe a few times and I once took one of our dogs to the netherlands to breed.

Please add to this page or email issues or topics of interest that can be added to the wiki or Network meetings. gale.kingsley@escco.org Add your own information here if you wish: please remember this wiki is not password protected and any opinions expressed do not represent SST11 or ESCCO.