Karen McDowell is an educator with over 25 years experience working with the adolescent and young adult population. She is an assistant faculty member of Profectum Foundation and strives to implement a comprehensive developmental curriculum into both her classroom environment and therapy work. As a Lead Teacher and Young Adult Program Coordinator at Celebrate the Children school for 13 years, she has contributed to innovative curriculum and strategies with the unique needs of individuals in mind while promoting opportunities for growth and development in both group and individual settings. Karen facilitates a weekly young adult group for several years with intensive focus on social and emotional strengths and challenges. Areas of interest and study include executive functioning, visual spatial processing, emotional regulation, and problem solving and she has provided workshops around the country on these developmental areas. Karen strives to provide programs that entice thinking, collaborative problem solving, effective communication, and positive coping strategies to support success, independence, meaningful and fulfilling experiences, and happiness within the demands of the 21st century.
Presenters: Karen McDowell; Kelly Reilly; Lisa Silva; Mary Alice Landis
This workshop will provide examples of how to formulate comprehensive, dynamic and developmentally appropriate lesson plans that reflect the DIR-FCD™ model and meet Common Core Standards. The second half of the workshop will include small group work sessions that support participants in building their own lesson plan and assessment modality.
Presenters: Karen McDowell; Kelly Reilly; Lisa Silva; Mary Alice Landis
This workshop will provide examples of how to formulate comprehensive, dynamic and developmentally
appropriate lesson plans that reflect the DIR-FCD™ model and meet Common Core Standards. The second
half of the workshop will include small group work sessions that support participants in building their own lesson plan and assessment modality.
Although all providers in this directory have completed one or more of Profectum’s certificate training courses on the DIR-FCD model, the providers listed in this directory are independent contractors. Providers are not agents nor are they employees and nor are they under the control of Profectum Foundation. Providers are solely responsible for the quality of the services you receive.