Warning…a bit of self-promotion.
I want to thank the CAI group for this awesome professional recognition. This particular award has considerable meaning for me given that Dr. Woodcock was my friend, colleague and mentor for 40+ years. He has been the most influential mentor in my career. He saw something in me when I was a masters degree school psychologist practicing in the trenches. I was able to learn from him in a mentor-apprentice model. After I had learned much about the art+science Woodcock approach to applied psychological test development, I was motivated to return to school to earn my doctorate degree—to get the formal “book” learning behind much of what he had taught me, and more.
Also, congratulations to my friend Dr. Nancy Mather who worked side-by-side with myself and Dr. Woodcock approximately 40 years on the revisions of the WJ-R through WJ V. Oh—the stories Nancy and I could tell.