Kathy A. Bobula - author of this site
Kathy Bobula, Ph.D. is a Child Development Specialist and Early Childhood Educator who has worked directly with children, parents and teachers of young children for the past 45+ years.
Kathy taught Early Childhood Education and Psychology at Clark College in Vancouver, WA for 31 years, starting in 1982. As of June 2014, Kathy retired and became a Professor Emeritus at Clark. From 2010-2017, Kathy taught a class at Portland State University entitled, Dynamic Theories of Infant/Toddler Development, in the Graduate Certificate Program in Infant/Toddler Mental Health. Kathy was a Board member of the Oregon Infant Mental Health Association from 2016-2018. For information about the PSU Certificate program, here is the address: http://www.pdx.edu/sped/itmh. Click on the green words for the link.
Kathy began studying about brain development and the influence of early experience on the developing brain in the mid-1980s. She began teaching and conducting workshops about brain development, and this ongoing investigation led eventually to discovering the concepts around self-regulation. This website has self-regulation as its focus and weaves in key information about brain development and brain function. In the 1990s, Kathy's work on the brain, learning, and self-regulation brought her to another topic that is of significant importance: Implicit Bias. Learning about how implicit (unconscious) bias is learned in infancy and throughout our lives helps us see that the "unlearning" of bias is an aspect of self-regulation. This site has a live lecture on the topic of implicit bias and a file of strategies for purposefully unlearning bias.
Kathy received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Family and Child Development from Ohio State University in 1967 and 1969, respectively. She earned a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University in 1996, with two field concentrations: Human Development and Policy Analysis. Her dissertation, Characteristics of Administrators’ Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers, looked at what worked in great early childhood programs. This web site on Self-Regulation takes the same positive approach in focusing on what can work to promote development of these skills.
Kathy’s professional experience, in addition to college teaching and community training, includes having been a teacher-caregiver of children from birth through six years of age, in both full and part-day early childhood programs . She has been a teacher in Head Start, Early Head Start, two campus based programs, two parent cooperatives, and a Native American tribal preschool.
Kathy taught Early Childhood Education and Psychology at Clark College in Vancouver, WA for 31 years, starting in 1982. As of June 2014, Kathy retired and became a Professor Emeritus at Clark. From 2010-2017, Kathy taught a class at Portland State University entitled, Dynamic Theories of Infant/Toddler Development, in the Graduate Certificate Program in Infant/Toddler Mental Health. Kathy was a Board member of the Oregon Infant Mental Health Association from 2016-2018. For information about the PSU Certificate program, here is the address: http://www.pdx.edu/sped/itmh. Click on the green words for the link.
Kathy began studying about brain development and the influence of early experience on the developing brain in the mid-1980s. She began teaching and conducting workshops about brain development, and this ongoing investigation led eventually to discovering the concepts around self-regulation. This website has self-regulation as its focus and weaves in key information about brain development and brain function. In the 1990s, Kathy's work on the brain, learning, and self-regulation brought her to another topic that is of significant importance: Implicit Bias. Learning about how implicit (unconscious) bias is learned in infancy and throughout our lives helps us see that the "unlearning" of bias is an aspect of self-regulation. This site has a live lecture on the topic of implicit bias and a file of strategies for purposefully unlearning bias.
Kathy received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Family and Child Development from Ohio State University in 1967 and 1969, respectively. She earned a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University in 1996, with two field concentrations: Human Development and Policy Analysis. Her dissertation, Characteristics of Administrators’ Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers, looked at what worked in great early childhood programs. This web site on Self-Regulation takes the same positive approach in focusing on what can work to promote development of these skills.
Kathy’s professional experience, in addition to college teaching and community training, includes having been a teacher-caregiver of children from birth through six years of age, in both full and part-day early childhood programs . She has been a teacher in Head Start, Early Head Start, two campus based programs, two parent cooperatives, and a Native American tribal preschool.
