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Diana Black Kennedy, MA, BCET, is a board certified educational therapist with a thriving private practice in San Anselmo, California.

Her extensive classroom experience spans second grade through high school; rural, urban and suburban settings; and public and private schools. She has taught high school in rural Mississippi with Teacher for America; third grade in a small charter school in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Oakland where almost all of her students were new immigrants or first-generation Americans; second grade in the second-largest school in inner-city Oakland, a school that was 50 percent Hispanic and 50 percent black; fifth, third, and eighth grade at a small private Jewish day school in a relatively wealthy suburb of San Francisco; and algebra in an independent school in Marin for kids with learning disabilities, autism, and ADHD. In her private practice as an educational therapist, she has worked one-on-one with students with learning disabilities, those who are gifted and talented, and those who are twice exceptional. This unusually wide and varied experience gives her a perspective—and lots of stories—few educational writers have.

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