Barbara Kaiser
Judy Sklar Rasminsky

In the two decades they’ve been working together, Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky—winners of two prestigious Texty Awards for textbook excellence—have written a series of books unique in education. Combining Barbara’s 30 years of experience as a teacher and education consultant with Judy’s professional writing skills, their texts bring readers solid research and pragmatic strategies in a style that’s always easy to read.

BARBARA KAISER is the co-author of Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School and Challenging Behavior in Young Children. She has taught at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and at Concordia University and College Marie-Victorin in Montreal, Canada.

In addition to presenting workshops and keynote speeches on challenging behavior throughout the United States and Canada, Barbara has acted as chief consultant for Facing the Challenge, an instructional DVD based on Challenging Behavior in Young Children (Devereux Early Childhood Initiative, 2007), and for Mr. Rogers’ Family Communications, Inc. She has also consulted for several regional projects and developed a comprehensive intervention to address and prevent violence among young people aged 5 to 15.

Over a period of 25 years, Barbara founded and was the director of two child care centers and an after-school program. A master’s degree in educational administration from McGill University gives her a firm theoretical foundation, but above all her perspective is practical, realistic, and compassionate, stemming from decades of working with actual children, families, and teachers in real situations.

She is a citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

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JUDY SKLAR RASMINSKY, co-author of Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School and Challenging Behavior in Young Children, is a freelance writer specializing in education and health.

She and Barbara first teamed up to write The Daycare Handbook (Little, Brown, Canada, 1991) and have been working together ever since. In 1999, their bestselling Meeting the Challenge was selected as a Comprehensive Membership Benefit by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Judy’s articles have appeared in the Reader's Digest, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other magazines and newspapers; and several of her pieces have been anthologized in college and high school textbooks. She also worked for many years as an editor, researcher, and reader for book publishers in New York, London, and Montreal.

In 2004, Judy won a Blue Pencil Award from the National Association of Government Communicators, a Silver Inkwell Award of Merit from the International Association of Business Communicators, and a Plain Language Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Judy has a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Professional Writers Association of Canada, the Text and Academic Authors Association, and the Authors Guild. She is a citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

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