Gail Wood Miller
Gail Wood Miller is a consultant, author, public speaker, health coach, and ADHD coach. A retired, award-winning educator, she specialties in nurturing awareness about individual health, including noting the effects of food on behavior.
As an educational consultant (pre-k through adult), she specializes in learning differences, and in meeting individual needs within a group context.
Author of How to Study: Use Your Personal Learning Styles (under Gail Wood, for Learning Express/Random House, 2000), and articles on learning differences, she presents at local, national, and international conferences.
As a health coach and an ADHD coach, she focuses on women, children, and adolescents.
Awards include Berkeley College Outstanding Teacher of Humanities, Online, and co-winner of the MacBeth Award for Computing in the Humanities. She is an inducted member of the International Honor Society in Education, Kappa Delta Pi (Beta Pi chapter, New York University), and the national drama fraternity, Delta Psi Omega. Honors also include inclusion in 2000 Outstanding Women in the 20th Century.
Her doctorate is in English education from New York University. She has taught pre-college through graduate English, English education, and other humanities courses. She is certified by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition as an holistic health coach, and by the ADD Coach Academy as an ADHD coach.
Good Girl, based on her published research (“What makes the ‘Good Girl’ Good May Not be Good: Uncovering Hypoactivity in the Classroom,” in Our Bodies, Ourselves: The EmBODYment of Women’s Literacy, edited by Mev Miller and Kathleen P. King. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2011), is her first novel.
Gail lives in Manhattan with her husband. She is an amateur watercolorist who likes hiking and loves being with their children and grandchildren.
Illustration is a pencil sketch by Doris Ettlinger.