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Instructors and Presenters
Dr. Judith C. Hochman is the former Superintendent of the Greenburgh Graham Union Free School District in Hastings on Hudson, New York and Head of Windward School in White Plains, New York. She is the founder and senior faculty member of the Windward Teacher Training Institute. Dr. Hochman lectures, presents workshops and gives courses for educational organizations, colleges and universities, as well as public and independent schools throughout the United States. She is on the Advisory Board of the New York Branch of the International Dyslexia Association. In 1998 she received the New York Branch Award from the International Dyslexia Association. The Reading Reform Foundation presented Dr. Hochman with the Leona D. and Phillip J. Spector Leadership Award in 2004. Dr. Hochman is the author of Teaching Basic Writing Skills, numerous articles and a chapter, "Composition: Expressive Language and Writing," in the publication Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills.
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Phyllis Bertin, M.S., a noted lecturer, teacher trainer and school consultant, is the Director of Reading at Windward Teacher Training Institute. After teaching mainstream and special education classes, she went on to become the Director of Special Education for the Weston Connecticut Public Schools, the Director of Education for Windward School and a Board Member of the New York State Branch of the International Dyslexia Association. Ms. Bertin received the New York Branch Award from the International Dyslexia Association in 1999. She is co-author of Preventing Academic Failure, an Orton-Gillingham based program used extensively in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the United States and is an editor of the Merrill Reading Program.
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Ronnie Berish, M.S., certified in both elementary and special education, has been teaching reading and training staff at Windward for more than thirty years. In her role as Coordinator of Special Services she oversees the testing of applicants as well as the ongoing standardized testing of Windward students.
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Dr. Mark Bertin, a board certified developmental behavioral pediatrician, studied at the UCLA School of Medicine and completed his training in general pediatrics at Oakland Children's Hospital in California. He was a general pediatrician for five years in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and later returned to the East Coast for fellowship training in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics at the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (Rose Kennedy Center) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Bertin is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College and Director of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the Westchester Institute for Human Development, working in their foster care program. He is a consultant for Reach Out and Read, a national organization that promotes child development and literacy. Dr. Bertin is a frequent lecturer for parents, teachers and professionals on topics related to child development including literacy promotion, ADHD and autism.
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Betsy M. Duffy is the Director of Language Arts at Windward School and former Director of Curriculum and Instruction at The Graham School in Hastings, New York. She has worked in the field of special education for over twenty-five years as a classroom teacher in mainstream and special education settings, a resource room teacher, and a language arts specialist. She uses multisensory techniques for teaching reading and writing and presents staff development in both Teaching Basic Writing Skills and Preventing Academic Failure. She has presented courses for the New York City School system and workshops for Reading Reform Foundation. In addition to holding a Master's Degree in Learning Disabilities, Ms. Duffy is certificated in Advanced Graduate Study of Staff Development and earned a Master's Degree in School Administration and Supervision.
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Linda Freeman, M.S. has been teaching in the White Plains Public Schools for more than thirty-five years. She teaches reading using Preventing Academic Failure (PAF) and has acted as a district model for incorporating PAF into the curriculum. She has also supervised student teachers, mentored new teachers, and developed curriculum.
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David Gottesfeld, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and other developmental disabilities. He had worked as the lower school psychologist at Windward from 1993-2002 and was the Chief Psychologist at Pediatric Neurological Associates in White Plains until 2007. In addition to having a private practice in White Plains and Manhattan, he is also adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and teaches the practicum in Child Assessment.
He presents various workshops at the Teacher Training Institute.
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Amy Linden, M.A., is certified in both elementary and special education. She was a learning disabilities specialist in the White Plains Public Schools for over twenty years. In that role, she coordinated a program which offered the PAF curriculum to "at risk" children in the mainstream. She has joined the Windward staff as Supervisor of the Reading Program.
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Eileen Perlman, M.S. began her career as a classroom teacher and reading specialist. For more than twenty-five years, she has been a learning disabilities specialist for the White Plains Public Schools. In addition to her private practice involving diagnosis and remediation, Ms. Perlman is a highly-regarded lecturer, teacher trainer and educational consultant. She is co-author of Preventing Academic Failure, an Orton-Gillingham based program used extensively in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the United States and is an editor of the Merrill Linguistic Reading Program.
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Beverley Mowatt-Plaskett, M.S., taught math and technology at Windward School for twelve years and served as a staff developer and curriculum coordinator. A Windward Teacher Training Institute instructor, Ms. Mowatt-Plaskett has taught workshops for professionals and parents in multisensory instruction in the areas of mathematics and technology. She has also conducted teacher training workshops at the College of Staten Island's Discovery Institute program.
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Anne Marie Rowley, B.S., is the Director of Technology at Windward School. She works closely with the staff to develop electronic research programs for students grades six through nine. Ms. Rowley has developed the technology staff development program at Windward and conducts workshops for professionals and parents in the metropolitan area.
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Yoni Schwab, Ph.D., is the psychologist at Windward School and a clinical fellow at the Institute for Behavior Therapy in New York City. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at Rutgers University and completed his clinical training programs at the NYU Child Study Center in New York and Trinitas Hospital in New Jersey. Dr. Schwab’s research focuses on school-based social-emotional learning, the influence of social and emotional skills on academic achievement, and how children internalize positive behavior. He consults and speaks to parent groups, school staffs and community groups on social-emotional learning, progressive behavior management, and raising the achievement of behaviorally and academically challenged students.
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Carol Siegel, M.A., IMSLEC certifiied and a master teacher with certification in Elementary and Special Education, taught at the Windward Lower School for twenty years before retiring in 2010. Ms. Siegel has presented workshops throughout the New York metropolitan area on teaching writing and reading comprehension.
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Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D., a language pathologist, has more than thirty years experience in clinical, private and university teaching and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences across the country. She is Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and faculty member in the Early Intervention Training Institute, both at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Soifer serves as Executive Director of the Best Children's Foundation and is Director of the Soifer Center for Learning and Child Development. She is the author of the language assessment portion of a software product, WordWeaver for Speech and Language Assessment, and a chapter entitled "Oral Language Development and Its Relationship to Literacy" in the textbook Multisensory Structured Language Teaching and Practice.
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Leslie Zuckerwise, M.A., has taught at Windward’s middle school since 2001 and has a graduate degree in Education, Curriculum and Technology. In addition, she has held the Instructional Technology Support position since its inception in 2007. Mrs. Zuckerwise was a presenter at the Windward parent seminar “Lessons from the Classroom” and has conducted numerous technology workshops and training seminars for Windward’s staff development program. Mrs. Zuckerwise delivers her multisensory language arts lessons using a SMARTBoard and is a certified SMART trainer.
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