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About Gaye Gronlund, M.A.

About Bev Engel (below)

Focused Portfolios (TM): A Complete Assessment for the Young Child - for tracking early childhood education.    Bev Engel has been teaching in and consulting to the field of Early Childhood Education for nearly thirty years.
   After beginning her career as a preschool teacher, Bev became a tenured faculty member of the Early Childhood Education Department at Vanier College in Montreal, where she taught early childhood curriculum design and implementation and supervised students in fieldwork practice. She has been a full time consultant to both educational and business organizations since moving to Maine in 1992.
   Bev offers workshops and seminars in a variety of areas. She has also guided child care centers and school systems in re-energizing and reorganizing existing early childhood services so that they reflect developmentally appropriate practice and current thinking in the field.

   Bev holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education from Sir George Williams University (Montreal), a Master of Arts in Organization Development and Leadership from Goddard College (Vermont) and a Graduate Diploma in College Teaching from McGill University (Montreal). She has done advanced training in Human Interaction and Conflict Management and is certified in the administration and application of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.