Meet Gloria DeGaetano, PCI Founder
Gloria DeGaetano, M.Ed. is the founder and CEO of the Parent Coaching Institute (PCI), a global company offering Parent Coach Certification® for family professionals, coaching services for moms and dads, and specialized programs for companies and organizations.
An internationally acclaimed educator, author, and parent coach, Gloria brings a wide-range of experiences to her present work. She has been a middle school and high school classroom teacher, an elementary reading specialist, and a school district administrator directing reading and language arts programs, K-8. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington in teacher training and graduate programs. Her specialties include psycholinguistics and literacy development, personality and learning styles, intrinsic motivation, systems thinking applications, appreciative inquiry, and brain-compatible practices in teaching, learning, and parenting. She has written curriculum for various districts and agencies including a media literacy violence prevention program for Mothers Against Violence and a media literacy curriculum for children ages 2–4 for U.S. Head Start programs.
Gloria DeGaetano is considered a pioneer in the field of media/digital literacy with her ground-breaking books: Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy with Kathleen Bander (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, (Harmony Books, 1999, revised, 2014), and Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human, (Personhood Press, 2006) which won the 2007 i-Parenting Media Award for excellence. Her most recent book, Patterns Over Time: A Research Summary: Screen Time and Healthy Development (Creative Source Publishers, 2023) has received wide acclaim from parents and professionals alike. Gloria's books, articles, and parenting tools have been translated into Spanish, German, Danish, Romanian, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish.
A respected voice for children and parents, Gloria’s ideas and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Beijing Parent, American Baby Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, La Tribune, The London Times, The Observer, Better Homes and Gardens, Redbook, American Way of American Airlines, Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner, Healthline, and Spirit Magazine of Southwest Airlines.
Gloria is a Certified Practitioner in Appreciative Inquiry from the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at Champlain College, and holds a Certification in Transformational Leadership from The Hartford Seminary and a Systems Development Certification from the Frita Capra Institute. She is a member of the Authors’ Guild and the Institute for Coaching.
Gloria focuses her work on training professionals to become PCI Certified Parent Coaches®, orchestrating the team at PCI and growing a worldwide network of PCI Coaches. She keeps a private coaching practice and writes on technology issues to help parents attain the life they want for themselves and for their families amid the challenges in our complex culture.
Gloria is the mother of two adult sons. She lives in Bellingham, Washington—a poster city for the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
For more information, please visit www.GloriaDeGaetano.com.