David L. Whitaker

Whitaker, the founder of Toolbox Training (toolboxtrainingonline.com), entered the child care profession in 1987. He has worked with preschoolers, kindergartners, school-agers, and middle schoolers in school, church, center, and recreation-based facilities. He has delivered hundreds of workshops at the national, state, and local levels. He has authored more than a dozen books, served as a consultant to multiple afterschool programs, and been on local and state boards related to the field. He has a Master of Education from Lesley University (Cambridge, MA) and is a past faculty member of Concordia University (St. Paul, MN).

He also shares his passion for music via DavesMusicDatabase.com which is devoted to the collection, consolidation, and promotion of music history and best-of lists. His Facebook page (facebook.com/davesmusicdatabase) has followers in 40 countries and his blog (davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/) has had more than a million hits. From 2011-2013, he wrote a music-themed column, "Aural Fixation," for PopMatters.com.

While most of his writing is non-fiction, he has also penned a pair of children's novel, 'Otter and Arthur and the Sword in the Stone' and 'Otter and Arthur and the Round Table' which explore how King Arthur owed his success to a mouse nicknamed Otter. Follow of all Whitaker's writings at WritByWhit.com.