ROSS GREENE, PH.D.
Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is Director of the Collaborative Problem Solving Institute in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He specializes in the treatment of explosive, inflexible, easily frustrated children and adolescents and is the author of The Explosive Child and co-author of Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach. He is also Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Greene's research focuses on the classification, longitudinal study, and the treatment of inflexible, easily frustrated, explosive children; long-term outcomes in socially impaired children with ADHD; and student-teacher compatibility. He has authorized numerous articles, chapters, and scientific papers on school- and home-based interventions for children with disruptive behavior disorders. His research has been funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the U.S. Department of education. Dr. Greene received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1989 after completing his predoctoral internship at Children’s National Medical Center/George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Mass General, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor on the clinical psychology faculty at Virginia Tech and as Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
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PAT RED, M.S.
Pat Red is a faculty member in the Teacher Education Department in the K-8 Unified Extended Teacher Education Program (ETEP). She has worked in public and private schools for more than 25 years. She has been a special education teacher, general education teacher and behavior consultant. Pat has taught and/or done behavior consultation for individuals across all disability categories and from ages 3 to 63. Some of her students were in the general population; others had special needs including the autism spectrum, Asperger's syndrome, emotional behavior disorders, learning disabilities, and developmental disabilities. Pat is a member of the Association of Positive Behavior Supports, a Coordinator for the OSEP-funded National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports (pbis.org) and a member of the New England Positive Behavioral Supports Leadership Network (NEPBIS). Her goal is to influence individuals and groups to pursue practices that are instructional, proactive, data-based and focused on recognizing and attending to actions that children (and adults) do well and which we want to increase, while correcting and teaching alternatives to actions that we want to decrease
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JIM WALSH, ESQ.
Jim Walsh, Esq. graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975 and began his career in Texas school law by serving as the attorney for the Regional XIII Legal Service Program, beginning in 1979. In 1983, Mr. Walsh, Joe Hairston and Tom Doyal (now retired from the firm) founded the firm, now known as Walsh, Anderson, Brown Schulze & Aldridge, P.C., to focus on representing Texas public schools. He is the co-author of The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law and the author of The Common Sense Guide to Special Education Law. He is publisher and managing editor of the Texas School Administrators’ Legal Digest, for which he writes the popular “Law Dawg” column. He is the author of a monthly newsletter on special education, This Just In. . ., the monthly Walsh’s Word column in the IEP Team Trainer publication, and “Looking Back” in Texas School Business magazine. He serves on the Advisory Board for LRP Publications. Mr. Walsh has taught school law at the graduate level. He has conducted inservice training sessions at every Education Service Center in the state and at hundreds of school districts. Mr. Walsh is a highly sought-after speaker in Texas and throughout the nation.
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ERIC R. HERLAN, ESQ.
Eric R. Herlan, Esq. is the head of the Drummond Woodsum Law Firm's Public Sector Group. He has been working for nearly 20 years representing school districts throughout the State of Maine, with a focus on both special education and employment law issues. He has also advised private colleges within the State of Maine on issues involving disability rights and building accessibility. More recently he has begun advising New Hampshire school districts on special education issues. Eric's particular expertise is in the areas of special education and disability rights law. He has represented local school units in nearly 100 special education due process hearings and state complaint investigations, as well as in federal Office for Civil Rights investigations. Eric has also practiced in both federal and state courts, primarily in the area of special education and disability rights. He has appeared before the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for Maine, and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. In addition to his legal practice, Eric has also lectured throughout the State of Maine and nationally on issues involving disability rights and school law. He is the editor of the Special Education Quarterly and has written for the Maine Law Review. He is a contributing author to the treatise Maine School Law (Third Edition), Editor of Maine School Law for Board Members, a Reference Manual (Second Edition), and authored the Commentaries on Maine State Special Education Regulations.
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