• MA in Education

• Credentials  (Lifetime in each area)

  Teaching Elementary                    Teaching Secondary   Administration Elementary Administration Secondary                Special Education

Teacher - grades 3 thru college; regular and special education; principal, superintendent and private school owner - 44 years.

Administered first known elementary public school to implement Socratic dialog teaching methods by staff he trained, part of a school wide implementation using critical and creative thinking skills as primary objectives.

Schools he administered improved their reading scores from the 22-28% in the state to 93-98% in reading.

Wrote and supervised largest Title III curriculum development program, $500,000, in the history of California at that time.

Project developed first increments for group tests of remedial lessons for the Structure-of-Intellect, (SOI) founded by Dr. Mary Meeker, and based on Dr. Guilford's work at USC. Used throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries for preventing or correcting school failure.

Jerry developed a K-6 mathematics program using a developmental sequence of intelligence by Piaget, a world renowned French child psychologist. Piaget research and tests were allowed to be used for the first and only known time in American schools.

Jerry was commissioned to develop a comprehensive education program for the U.S. Air Force where airmen could attend classes, leave, return and still complete courses for a high school diploma or college credits with same instructor. Adopted by Vandenberg and shared with other military facilities.

Testified for State Senate Committee on school discipline and effective techniques.

Jerry's entire school organization, his refined teaching strategies in all subjects, his methods for training staff and curriculum, were adopted 3,000 miles from school site and implemented as several pilot schools in No. Carolina.

College instructor and consultant in using the Structure-of-Intellect (SOI) for special needs and Mentally Gifted Minors; he taught strategies for teaching special needs students, taught elementary mathematics, reading and school discipline.

Jerry combined all his experiences with curriculum programs, research in educational psychology, research in effective teaching methods, and teaching students, ages 4 to adult, including prisoners, all possessing a variety of reading skills and deficits, to develop the current version of Read Kwik.  Others examining Read Kwik  will advance the relationship of letter sequence, their sounds and control to an even more effective and reliable system. Such research and improvement are encouraged.