Lori Hyde holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education-Emotionally Impaired from the University of Michigan and a Master of Education degree in Risk and Prevention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals with behavioral and emotional problems in both the education and mental health fields. Currently, she works in a public school setting where she teaches a self-contained class of students with behavioral and emotional problems in grades 4-6. She also works at a crisis center where she conducts emergency psychiatric evaluations of individuals in crisis. Ms. Hyde has developed a number of fifteen-hour institutes and two graduate courses focusing on classroom management and assessment. She enjoys sailing in the summer and skiing in the winter as well as cooking all year, and she is working on meeting her goal of visiting all seven continents and four oceans.