Barbara Dean Schacker

Founder and Director of Pathways Publishing

Co-Founder and Director of Global Regeneration Network and other projects

Barbara was Co-founder of Creative Learning, Inc. 1988 - 1995. She is the Co-founder and developer of all Pathways Publishing projects and web sites. As well as being an executive, she has been a computer software designer and technologist, researcher, writer, office manager, executive assistant and librarian. She is also an artist and musician.

Accomplishments

She published the first natural-voice software for speech therapy and home applications in 1988. She was honored in 1991 to receive the John's Hopkins University Certificate of Achievement Award for improving the quality of life for the disabled through technology. Reader's Digest featured her father's amazing speech recovery and the story of her discoveries in "Prisoner of Silence", by Geeta Dardick, in the June issue of 1991. Since then she has continued to research the brain, alternative therapies and treatments for stroke as well as speech recovery. In 1999, she created the first online talking software for aphasia. In 2008, she co-founded and created speechrecovery.com, a joint project with Bill Connors, SLP-CCC, to bring new approaches, communication techniques, programs and tools to the speech and language and caregiver fields.

Michael Schacker

Co-Founder and Director of GlobalRegen.com, GlobalCurriculum.com, NewEarthInstitute.com, PlanBeeCentral.com and co-founder of GlobalRegen.net and other projects

Michael Schacker is the author of "A Spring Without Bees, how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply." by The Lyons Press, 2008 and The Global Curriculum, an online progressive, alternative world high school curriculum, the "Global Regeneration" e-book, as well as many other works. He is the co-creator of "Ingenuity Bank" software projects and The Global Regeneration Network

He was CEO of Creative Learning, Inc. the publisher of the first talking computer program for aphasia recovery. He was CEO of e-Change, Inc. (now closed due to his stroke.) He was CEO of Ingenuity Software, LLC, (temporarily closed). He authored and developed an online course for the Rodale Institute on "How to transition to Organic Farming", Crisis Management and Code of Conduct, and a Global Regen Vision Mapper to name a few. He is the author of The Global Curriculum, a 30-years plus research and writing project which is the world's first progressive online high school curriculum. He author of "Global Regeneration" an e-book on Global Regeneration which is being co-authored by Barbara Dean Schacker. He was a computer consultant and a science writer. For many years he was a political consultant and writer for the Democratic Party, Independents and Progressives. Michael is a musician and is the composer of a musical about William Blake. His accomplishments are too numerous to mention here.

Currently he is retired and lives in The Northeast Center for Special Care. He continues to recover slowly with the help of Barbara Schacker's Sensory Trigger programs, the Center's many innovative therapy programs, LENS neurofeedback therapy with Dr. Stephen Larsen and the help of his family and many friends. His unpublished manuscript "21st Century Transformation" a book about the "Organic Shift" a shift in consciousness that will make a positive future possible. The book will be published sometime in 2010. Michael has written and created many other works including The Global Curriculum, The Global Regeneration e-book, The Global Regeneration Project site. He is co-founder of The Global Regeneration Network.

Due to Michael Schacker's CVA and massive brain trauma in April 2, 2008, most of the unpublished writing, projects and web sites that he headed have been shifted over to Pathways Publishing.

Pathways Publishing is a multimedia and Internet publisher. We develop projects mainly concerned with global regeneration, the environment, health and education. We develop and manage websites as well as provide other services for corporations, small business and other projects including copyrights and trademark filing and merchant account services. Pathways Publishing is also the sponsor and publisher for Strokefamily.org and speechrecovery.com web sites devoted to stroke and speech recovery.

 

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