Diana Browning Wright, M.S., L.E.P.
PENT Director
Co-Author, PENT Publications: BSP-QE, BSP Desk Reference, Behavior Manual

Trainer, School Psychologist, Behavior Analyst
Diagnostic Center, Southern California

Diana Browning Wright is a well-known trainer in California and nationally on topics related to behavior, assessment and intervention planning. She has been nationally recognized for her work and regularly publishes articles on her research. She is on the faculty of the LRP national special education legal convention. Diana is also lead author of California Department of Education's Positive Interventions for Serious Behavior Problems, the manual on functional analysis assessment required by California Ed Code.

Diana enjoys working with diverse faculties and systems to achieve high outcomes for all students. She has taught and/or assessed students at all grade levels-preschool through graduate school and enjoys consulting on difficult systemic and behavioral issues. Her passion is sustaining reform efforts, building Communities of Practice, assessment linked to interventions, effective differentiated instruction, solving systemic barriers and resolving challenging behavior problems. Her most current research involves threat assessment, assessing behavior plan quality and efficient progress monitoring as well as on-going efforts to solve legal issues in special education.

School Psychologist
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District

Elena Alvarez obtained her PPS credential at CSULB. Elena currently serves on the board of the California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) as the Region Representative from Orange County. She has also served several terms as president of the Orange County Association of School Psychologists (OCASP). Elena has been instrumental in the development of the Bilingual Team at PYLUSD. This team focuses on proper identification and services for English Learners. In the district, Elena has provided training to school psychologists, speech therapists and Resource teachers on second language acquisition, cultural differences, socio-economic factors and IEP development to address the needs of minority students. Elena also provides parenting classes and parent workshops on discipline, conflict resolution, normal play and language development. Her passion lies on proper identification and services for minority students and their families. She received the "Woman of the Year" award for her work with the Latino community in 2002 from LULAC and the "Outstanding School Psychologist" award from CASP in 2002.

Clayton R. Cook, M.A.
PENT Leadership Team, PENT Research Team

Behavior Specialist/Research Scientist
University of California, Riverside
Girls and Boys Town - Omaha, Nebraska

Clayton is a credentialed school psychologist and research scientist. He is in the final stages of completing his doctoral studies in school psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Clayton is the co-founder of Project CREATE, which is a response to intervention program used to address the emotional and behavioral problems of students in environments ranging from general education to restrictive settings. Clayton has also been a behavioral consultant on Project REACH for five years, which is a federally funded grant focusing on delivering evidence-based interventions to the 1-3% of students with the most intense social, emotional, and behavioral problems. He has published numerous articles on topics ranging from positive behavior support plans to school bullying and victimization. He also has presented many presentations at national conferences on topics related to educational programming for students with or at-risk for emotional and behavioral problems.

Clinton Eatmon, M.A.
PENT Leadership Team

Behavior Intervention Specialist
San Joaquin County Office of Education (SJCOE) SELPA

Clinton Eatmon earned his BA with a Single Subject teaching credential and his MA with Special Ed. Learning Handicapped and Severely Handicapped teaching credentials from the University of the Pacific. While earning his MA, he worked as a Program Assistant at the Children's Home of Stockton Educational Program in a Behavior Change class for SED elementary age students. Clint's first teaching position (5 years) involved developing and implementing Special Ed. Behavior Change classes for SED adolescents at North Valley School/Regional Youth Services (RYS) formerly North Valley School/Regional Adolescent Treatment Program (RATP).

For 16 years, Clint has taught various classes for SJCOE; 2 years in an Early Identification preschool program, 6 years in Behavior Change Classes for ED students in grades K-8, and 8 years in Adolescent Day Treatment classes for ED students in grades 7-12. During this time he was an on-going member of the Behavior Committee, a Mentor Teacher for 5 years, a trainer of Management of Assaultive Behavior (MAB) for 10 years, and a part-time Behavior Intervention Specialist (BIS) for 3 years. Currently He is a full-time BIS focusing on training and supporting teachers in the development and implementation of behavior support plans (BSPs) and behavior intervention plans (BIPs), conducting functional behavior assessments (FBAs) and functional analysis assessments (FAAs), providing teacher support in positive classroom management, and training trainers of MAB.

Ann England, M.A. CCC-SLP-L
PENT Leadership Team

Speech-Language Pathologist, Assistant Director
Diagnostic Center, Northern California

Ann England received her M.A. in 1980 in Communicative Disorders and has a Clinical Rehabilitative Services Credential, Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech and Language (CCC-SLP) and is licensed by the State of California Speech Pathology Board.

At the Diagnostic Center, Northern California, Ann participates in transdisciplinary assessments of students with special needs ages 3 to 22 and provides trainings to staff throughout northern California in the areas of autism and developmental disabilities. She also consults with school district administrators and teaching teams as part of system change projects to develop evidence-based public school programs for students with autism and developmental disabilities. Ann has served on several California Department of Education committees related to autism and developmental disabilities and most recently was invited to participate on the Task Force on Education and Professional Development of The Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism.

Diane Hannett, M.Ed.
PENT Leadership Team

Program Specialist
Desert Mountain SELPA

Diane Hannett received a B.S. in psychology, M.Ed. and Psychological Specialist degree in school psychology all from Brigham Young University. She worked eight years as a school psychologist before taking her current position as a program specialist for the Desert/Mountain SELPA. As a program specialist, Diane provides consultation and staff development training in the areas of classroom management, positive behavioral support and individual behavioral intervention for the 15 school districts comprising the Desert/Mountain SELPA. Current interests and efforts are focused in the area of school-wide positive behavioral support.

Denise Keller, M.A.
PENT Leadership Team
Co-Author, PENT Publication: BSP Desk Reference

Behavior Specialist
Mendocino SELPA

Denise Keller, M.A., CBT, received her Masters Degree in Counseling from Sonoma State University in 1994 and has completed extensive course work with the University of North Texas in behavior analysis. Denise has worked with children at risk for neglect and abuse and their families and co-facilitated anger management groups for domestic violence perpetrators. She also worked for three years as an early intervention specialist in an early intervention program run by the Easter Seal Society.

Denise worked for 7 years as a behavior consultant serving regional center consumers and is currently the behavior specialist for the Mendocino County Office of Education/SELPA. Current duties include developing and conducting training for school site personnel in functional behavioral assessment, behavioral support strategies and the development and execution of positive behavior support and positive behavior intervention plans. She provides consultation and training on accommodation plans relevant to behavior intervention and also trains on PECS, ABA/AVB, PART, autism, functional analysis, manifestation determinations, and Asperger's Syndrome.

With her colleagues, she is currently looking at how to best support staff in writing and implementing behavior support plans and how to provide ongoing support through behavior support team development and higher level site administrator involvement.

Hope Michel, Ed.S.
PENT Leadership Team

School Psychologist/Program Specialist
San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE)/North Inland Special Education Region (NISER)

Hope Michel received a B.S. degree in Early Elementary Education from the College of Charleston in 1993. She worked in the public school system, Kindergarten through 8th grade, with both the general education and special education populations before receiving a M.S. degree and an Ed.S. Degree in School Psychology from Georgia Southern University.

Hope is currently employed by the San Diego County Office of Education and the North Inland Special Education Region as a School Psychologist and Program Specialist. She is assigned to five school districts and is the Behavior Intervention Case Manager for the districts she serves. Hope is responsible for training staff in the area of behavior (e.g., Positive Behavior Support Plans, Functional Behavior Analysis, Functional Analysis Assessment) and compliance with state and federal law as it relates to behavior. She also consults with site teams as they develop and implement behavior plans on students with mild to severe behavior challenges.

In addition, Hope is a member of the Pupil Services' Crisis Response Team at the SDCOE where she responds to districts' crises. Current professional interest lies in the area of student threat assessment.

Dru Saren, Ph.D.
PENT Leadership Team
Co-Author, PENT Publications: BSP-QE, BSP Desk Reference

Education Specialist, Assistant Director
Diagnostic Center, Northern California

Dru Saren, Ph.D. has taught pre-school through graduate school; general and special education; in public, private and psychiatric hospital schools; in New York City, New Mexico, and California. She received her doctorate in education, with a specialization in working with students with behavioral and emotional disorders, from the University of New Mexico in 1986.

For twenty years at the Diagnostic Center, Northern California, she participated in assessments of all students and provided training to staff throughout northern California in various aspects of behavior and in autism. She attributes much of her success and failure in implementing behavior strategies, as well as maintaining some sense of humor about it all, to a 32 year post graduate course offered by her daughter, who has Down Syndrome, and to her younger daughter and son, who have substituted when things were going too smoothly.

Cindy Wong, M.S.
PENT Leadership Team

School Psychologist
Diagnostic Center, Southern California

Cindy received her Masters in School Psychology from CSULA in 2003. She has worked in LAUSD as a classroom teacher in both special and general education programs. Through her work as a consultant with LACOE she helped develop Teaching Alternative Behaviors Schoolwide: A Resource Guide To Prevent Discipline Problems, and provided training on behavior and classroom management. Cindy is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She is currently working as a school psychologist for the Diagnostic Center, Southern California where her skills in behavior analysis and psychological assessment are used to assess students, consult with parents, and help school districts better understand the needs of diverse learners.

Kimble Morton , M.A.
PENT Leadership Team

Motor Assessment Program Specialist
Diagnostic Center, Southern California

Kimble Morton attended University of the Pacific, UC Santa Barbara and received her M.A. in Adapted Physical Education from California State University, Los Angeles. She is a contributing author to the manual Positive Intervention for Serious Behavior Problems and is co-author of the Analysis of Sensory Behavior Inventory-R and the textbook, Making Connections: From Theory to Practice in Adapted Physical Education. She is a certified instructor of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (National Crisis Prevention Institute).

Kim has taught and/or assessed students at all grade levels-preschool through graduate school. In her twenty years at the Diagnostic Center, Southern California, she has participated in assessments of students with a wide variety of learning needs and provided training to staff throughout Southern California on a variety of topics including positive behavior support.

Bonnie Kraemer , Ph.D.
PENT Reserarch Team

Assistant Professor
San Diego State University

Bonnie R. Kraemer has worked in the disability field for over 15 years. She received her Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of California, Riverside in 1999. Dr. Kraemer worked as an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque for 3 years and has been employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at San Diego State University for the past 4 years. Presently she is coordinator of the program in moderate/severe disabilities at SDSU. Her areas of interest and research lie in the field of severe intellectual disabilities, with a specific focus on families, transition, quality of life, and positive behavior supports. Dr. Kraemer has published many papers and presented at numerous national and international conferences in these areas of professional interest. Dr. Kraemer has been a member of the PENT research team since 2005.

Michele Wallace , M.S.
PENT Research Team

Assistant Professor
California State University, Los Angeles

Dr. Michele Wallace graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with her doctorate in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior under the guidance of Dr. Brian Iwata. She is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, the program director of the Center for Severe Behavior Problems, and a senior behavioral consultant for multiple school districts, as well as local service agencies. She was a professor at University of Nevada, Reno from 2000-2005 and the clinical director of the Nevada Center for Severe Behavior Problems. Dr. Wallace is on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, is a research consultant with the California Department of Education PENT project, and is a current member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavior Analysis, and the California Association for Behavior Analysis. She has served on the California Association for Behavior Analysis Board in several capacities including Membership Chair 2003-2005, Newsletter Chair 2005-2007, Conference Co-chair 2001-2002 and 2006-2007, and President-elect 2007. She has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in the State of Florida since 1993 and a National Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2000. Dr. Wallace has over twelve first authored publications, seventeen co-authored publications, and has presented over 170 presentations. Her current research interest are related to the refinement of assessment and treatment methodologies with respect to behavior problems, parent and staff training, the acquisition of verbal behavior, and the interaction between stimulant medication and behavior in children with ADHD.