Barbara Coloroso

Barbara Coloroso is an internationally recognized speaker and author in the areas of parenting, teaching, school discipline, non-violent conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice. She is an educational consultant for school districts, the medical and business community, the criminal justice system and other educational associations throughout the world.

Coloroso has served as a classroom teacher, a laboratory school instructor, and a university instructor. She is the author of four international bestsellers: Kids are worth it!, Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline, Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change, The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander and Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right, as well as the two critically acclaimed video programs, “Winning at Parenting...without beating your kids,” and “Winning at Teaching...without beating your kids.” Coloroso’s latest book is Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide and Why it Matters.