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Author Fact Sheet
Janis Gioia is a licensed elementary school teacher and has taught preschool, prekindergarten and elementary grades. She has worked with children with special needs, severe behavior challenges, as well as those from disadvantaged environments in a social services setting. While teaching in a large, urban school district she developed a unique classroom management system based on the social habits of wolves. This idea, which became her first book, The Wolf Pack Classroom Management Plan, enabled her to create a nurturing classroom environment that gently guides and inspires children to be and do their best. Janis received a BA in English and a BS in elementary Education from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. She is currently taking graduate classes and is involved in researching ways to help children create peaceful, joy-filled lives. She lives with her husband, children and two standard poodles in Northeastern Ohio.
