Kate Bellanca

Kathleen Bellanca
President

Kate Bellanca has dedicated her career to working directly with schools, families, and other helping professionals to assist them in affecting significant change in children's critical thinking and problem solving skills.  Bellanca works with students and their families across the United States, Canada, France, Denmark, and Israel to enhance children's learning potential by creating and implementing customized applications of Feuerstein's work for classroom, home, and therapeutic settings.    She has extensive experience as a child advocate, utilizing Feuerstein's Learning Propensity Assessment Device as a tool to work collaboratively with schools and families to deliver the best education possible for all students.

Bellanca interned at the globally acclaimed International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP) in Jerusalem, Israel, where she became fully certified in Professor Reuven Feuerstein's Dynamic Assessment and Instrumental Enrichment programs under the apprenticeship of such preeminent leading thinkers as Dr. Feuerstein, Dr. Louis Falik, and Dr. Steven Gross.   

Bellanca earned her degrees in General and Developmental Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. 

Kate has a special interest in applying Feuerstein's theories of "learning how to learn" and dynamic assessment to the special needs population.