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Steve
Breakstone
and
Michael
Dreiblatt
,
co-founders of Balance Educational Services, LLC,
are outstanding national speakers. Michael’s
humor and Steve’s theatrical experience
come together to provide dynamic, practical
seminars and workshops to whole school
communities: students, school staff,
administrators, parents and community
members. Using their unique tag-team
style, Michael and Steve engage attendees
and teach best practices and realistic
strategies that can be used immediately.
In their most popular presentation,
Strategies to Stop Bullying and Social
Aggression, Michael and Steve demonstrate
how to replace bullying and other misconduct
with pro-social actions. |
Steve Breakstone
Steve@BalanceEducation.net
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Michael and Steve are experts in bullying and
violence prevention, creating healthy
relationships, effective communication
styles, and discipline of students with
special needs. They are authorities
in the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004)
and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act, offering easy to understand seminars
to teachers and administrators.
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Michael Dreiblatt
Mike@BalanceEducation.net
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Michael is a former teacher having
taught for 16 years in New York City
and Vermont. He is the past Director
of Education for Israel Congregation
of Manchester, VT and the former Network
Coordinator of the Vermont School Age
Care Network. Michael is also an experienced
grant writer and trained mediator. Born
and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Michael
lives in Vermont with his wife Karen,
their two sons, and their dog and cat.
Steve has served as
the Director of Northstar Community
Alliance where he worked to prevent
and reduce substance abuse. He has also
worked to prevent domestic abuse as
the Youth and Community Educator with
Project Against Violent Encounters.
Steve is a past facilitator with FATHERTIME,
a parenting program, and is a trained
mediator.
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In the late 1980s, Steve and his dog,
Dixie, walked 3000 miles from New Orleans
to Washington State. In Washington,
Steve worked nine years with people
with developmental disabilities. He
is the author of the book Washington
WALKABOUT. This book examines the experiences of
Reggie Feckley, a man with developmental
disabilities, as he, Steve and Dixie
walked 1,300 miles around the state
of Washington, promoting the capabilities
of people with disabilities. Steve lives
on 30 acres in Vermont with nature photographer
Jane Glesne, and their cat.
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