Jerry customizes each presentation to your topic, audience, and event. No two presentations are exactly the same. Jerry presents on a wide range of human development and relationship topics and some of the most requested topic areas are listed below.

I believe that children can best be served when we all work together (it takes a village). My preference is to present to mixed groups of parents, teachers, and mental health professionals. Let's learn together, so we can work together.

By request, each presentation has been developed for one of three audiences:

• teachers, coaches, and educational staff
• psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals,
• parents.

Human Development

• Growth and Improvement Focus
• Raising Responsible Children
• It Takes A Village to Raise a Child: putting action to the saying
• How the Brain Learns Best
• Play: Biology's Natural Learning Strategy
• Child-rearing: It's simple, but not always easy.
• Parenting, Child-rearing, Teaching
• Stages of Human Development
• Learning Habits
• Peak Performance Training
• Intervention Focus
• Children's Mental Health: Early Warning Signs
• Children's Mental Health: Focus on Depression (or Anxiety etc).
• Improving Attention and Focus: It's not just ADHD anymore.
• Interventions for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
• Overindulged Children: Helping At-Risk Youth and Enabling Parents
• Improving Frustration Tolerance and School Success
• Stress: Managing, Coping, and Reducing It in our Lives
• What if it's not ADHD?

Educational Improvement

• Overcoming Bullying: Developing a Respectful School
• PBIS – What's it Really Mean and How Can We Do It?
• Really Understanding Behavioral Modification
• Problems with Positive Reinforcement – and Doing it Correctly.
• Helping Overindulged Children (and others): Teaching Resilience
• Relationships First – Learning Will Follow
• Developing Environments and Communities Where Learning Comes Naturally

Systems Reform for Schools and Mental Health Agencies

• Creating Mental Illness: Why we create false epidemics and how to stop.
• Over-diagnosed and Under-treated: the Mental Health System is Failing our Youth
• How High-stakes Testing is destroying our Youth, Schools, and Teachers
• Shut Up and Get in Line: the death of creativity and natural learning.
• What's the Difference Between a School and an Assembly Line?
• Educational Reform: Combining the Child & Adolescent Development Perspective with the Academic Achievement Perspective
• The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

Relationship Enrichment

Myers-Briggs

Jerry has taught elementary grades, high school, and served as an Elementary and Middle School Principal.

On the other end of the spectrum, he has served as an adjunct faculty member at the following:

• Central Lakes Community College (Brainerd, MN),
• Minneapolis Community & Technical College,
• North Hennepin Community College (Brooklyn Park, MN) and
• been a Lecturer at the University of Minnesota.\

He has taught

• Human Development,
• Psychology of Adulthood and Aging,
• Applied Psychology, and
• the Psychology of Adjustment.