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Dr. Patrick Capriola

Dr. Patrick Capriola is the founder of strategiesforparents.com. He is an expert in parenting, social-emotional development, academic growth, dropout prevention, educator professional development, and navigating the school system. He earned his Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Florida in 2014.

His professional experience includes serving as a classroom teacher, a student behavior specialist, a school administrator, and a coordinator of educator training at UF - providing professional development to school administrators and teachers, helping them learn to meet the academic and social-emotional needs of students.

He is focused on growing strategiesforparents.com into a leading source for high-quality research-based content to help parents work through the challenges of raising a family and progressing through the school system.

Perhaps you have seen a movie “based on” a book, or you’re a fan of “buttermilk-based” pastries. Maybe you dream of building a business “based at” your home, but what does “based in” mean? Is it even correct? “Based in” is correct to use. It is an adjective followed by a preposition to describe the …

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English is chock-full of words with a more dramatic twin we might reserve for special occasions. There isn’t always a rhyme or reason why these word-twins exist, but they exist and are still usable. Case in point: “irregardless” versus “regardless.” It is correct to say “irregardless” during an informal conversation, though it is not correct …

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Learning a language can be difficult, especially when people who speak the same language use different words depending on where they live. For example, in the case of the terms “got” or “gotten,” is “gotten” correct? It is correct to say “gotten” because it is the past participle of “get,” which means “to receive.” However, …

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We will sometimes hear someone use the phrase “my dear” to address another person. While it is common to hear this for one person, it is less common to hear “my dears” in the plural. Is “my dears” grammatically correct? Since “dear” is a countable noun, the plural “my dears” is grammatically correct. We might …

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There are many strange word pairings in the English language, and “by way of” is no exception. One way you might see this word combination is in the phrase “by way of introduction,” but is this phrase grammatically correct? What exactly does it mean?  It is correct to say “by way of introduction.” We most …

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