Beth Pauline, M.S.

Educational Therapist

Beth Pauline is a Professional Educational Therapist with twenty years of teaching experience. As an Educational Therapist, Beth offers an intensive process of teaching and academic skill development. Beth is able to create an individualized program designed to meet each of our teen’s specific needs. Beth creates and implements a treatment plan that utilizes information from a variety of sources including the teen’s social, emotional, psychoeducational and neuropsychological context.

After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from SUNY Stony Brook in 1989, Beth worked in adult education, teaching basic education, life management skills and GED preparation to students ranging in age from seventeen to eighty-three years in diverse locations. Her student success rate on the GED exam was higher than the New York State average. In 1991, while teaching adults, Beth earned her Masters of Science in Education at the College of New Rochelle, concentrating in Special Education. She then accepted a position at an alternative high school where she taught at-risk students. While teaching at the alternative school, Beth developed cross-curricular, team-teaching modules to integrate the English and history classes, initiated and coordinated student participation in local youth conventions and school field trips, integrated Cable in the Classroom curricula, hosted guest speakers, and developed a working relationship with the county district attorney’s office to help students become aware of their rights and responsibilities as citizens. In 1999, Beth relocated to California and began teaching special education at Agoura High School. In addition to her numerous responsibilities within special education, she became an active staff member on campus. Beth created and operated the Reading & Writing Center, which offered assistance to any AHS student who needed support in developing written language skills, reading comprehension, language arts, and study skills. She was also a member of Site Council for two years, the advisor of the Peer Counseling Program for three years, and the chairperson of the New Directions’ D/F Crisis committee. Along with teaching special education, Beth taught US History CP during summer school. In March, 2002, Beth was named Las Virgenes Unified School District’s Teacher of the Month.