About Dr. Brad Schwall

Cool Kids Creator, Author, and Producer

Dr. Brad Schwall equips schools with tools and strategies for developing healthy learning environments, encouraging positive classroom behavior, and teaching students social and emotional skills that support academic success.  He created Cool Kids and continues to develop and produce Cool Kids resources.  The Cool Kids curriculum is used by public and private schools across Texas as well as outside of Texas, including schools in the Dallas, Highland Park, Frisco, Lewisville, Richardson, Ennis, Tyler, and Burleson ISDs.

Dr. Schwall has been providing counseling, leading social and emotional skills classes for children, training youth professionals, counselors, and educators, and facilitating parenting workshops for over 18 years.  He has experience training the staff of major social service and educational organizations as well as experience writing and being interviewed for news programs on parenting and childhood issues.

His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in education from Baylor University and a doctorate in pastoral psychotherapy from Garrett Theological Seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  Dr. Schwall is currently teaching in the Highland Park ISD at McCulloch Intermediate School. 

Dr. Schwall and his wife, Lynn, have two cool kids of their own, Sam and Grace.