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The program "Helping Children Learn to Read" seeks to emphasize the importance of phonics for kindergarten and primary readers. It uses MetaPhonics, a comprehensive English Language Arts Program which is the results of more than 25 years of classroom experience. It stresses a combination of fundamental skills and the reading of great literature; in addition it improves the skill of combining and associating communication. This last is a higher level skill made up of the lower order skills of reading, writing, speaking, and responding.

Dr. DeMoulin has been an elementary school teacher, elementary principal, and district superintendent, and for the last 13 years has been involved in higher education/research. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Eastern Illinois University in 1975, Master of Arts in Science Degree from Governors State University in 1979, Specialist Degree in Curriculum Instruction from Southern Illinois Uni-- versity Edwardsville in 1985, and Doctoral Degree in Leadership from Mississippi State University in 1987 and brings over 24 years of professional experience as a researcher and practitioner in the field of education. With over 220 articles, books and presentations to his credit, he is highly recognized for his research involving self-concept development in children and adults and violence prevention in schools.

Dr. DeMoulin was featured on the cover of Education in 1993 for his work in identifying the sub-components of self-efficacy and its role in learning. Since then, he has been highly involved in developing the DeMoulin Behavior Hierarchy that provides a practical model to identify the relationship of self-efficacy and self-esteem as the underlying determinants of self-concept. According to this model, to maximize the potential for an effective outcome, one must display the proper behavior characteristics for that outcome. To acquire the proper behavior characteristics, a positive attitude must be exhibited and the positive attitude is produced by a healthy self-concept (being determined by efficacy and esteem elements).

Over the past several years, Dr. DeMoulin has received numerous awards and honors and is a favorite as a public speaker. His contributions to the literature are well documented. He has appeared on various television programs around the country and was sighted in Education Week for his research on "I LIKE ME!

As a result, the editors of EDUCATION decided to feature his work and the efforts of the Telephone Pioneers of America, Kindergartners Count, Inc., and a highpowered group of educators that provide support for the "I LIKE ME!" program in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Dr. DeMoulin is currently a professor at the University of Tennessee-Martin and, for the past five years, has served as the lead researcher for the "I LIKE ME!" program-a highly popular self-concept development and reading enhancement program for kindergartners. The program is being expanded to include pre-school through third grade. His research has provided validity and credibility for the program's efficacy as a practical, supplemental approach for early childhood intervention.

SCHOLARLY AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITIONS

** Diplomate awarded by the American Board of Psychological Specialties (1999)

* * Selected as one of five distinguished educators to be interviewed for a special documentary on self-esteem and published in the December 9, 1998 issue of Education Week (1998)

** Selected as the keynote speaker for the international convention of the Telephone Pioneers of America and lead panel moderator for a distinguished group of educators including Mario Moreno, Deputy Secretary of Education, Susan Gorin, Ex Dir for the National Association of School Psychologists, Sarah Greene, Ex Dir for the National Head Start Association, Gary Marx, consultant to the American Association of School Administrators, and Jeff Deane, President of the Canadian Association of Principals (1998)

** Selected as part of a distinguished panel of speakers including John Motusesky, President of Telephone Pioneers of America. Hal Burlingame, Vice President of AT&T, Robert Goodwin. President of Points of Light Foundation, and Richard Riley, Secretary of Education, held at Washington, DC (1998)

** Selected by the American Biographical Institute to be included in the international Directory of Distinguished Leadership for Outstanding Leadership in Research and Teaching (1998)

* * Presented a national award for Outstanding Leadership in Community Service by Kindergartners Count, Inc., in Topeka, Kansas (1996)

* * Selected to Who's Who Among Outstanding Americans (1995)

* * Selected by the State Department of Education as a panel member and facilitator for a two-day seminar on "Violence in the Schools" held at the University of Missouri-Columbia (1994)

** Part of a national documentary for special education in Japan (1994)

* * Cover feature along with nationally recognized research on self-efficacy - Winter, 1993 issue of EDUCATION.

* * Special Merit Award from the editorial board of Project Innovation for Defining the Role of Self- Efficacy in Learning (1993)

** Invited by Hirosaki University in Japan as a guest visiting lecturer/researcher (October/Novem-- ber, 1993)

** Selected to the Outstanding Young Men of America organization (1992)

** Selected but the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) as One of 40 outstanding doctoral students in the United States and Canada (1988).

DONALD F. DEMouLIN, ED.D., ABPS Education

University of Tennesse at Martin

Martin, Tennessee 38238

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