The School of Education at UW-Stout • Fall 2014
Also in this issue:
Director’s message
nAwards
n Meet the new faculty
n Out of the mouths of babes
n Alumnus/chancellor reflects on role
models at UW-Stout
n Greta Munns speaks from experience
n Richness beyond hopes/Flom
sabbatical
n Leaning toward leadership/alumnus
Hay
n Art in the neighborhood
n Notable notes
n
Coming home
Alumnus Bob Meyer becomes UW-Stout’s seventh chancellor
That was then; this is now.
Thirty-nine years ago in the fall of 1975, Bob
Meyer was a freshman at UW-Stout majoring in
industrial education.
This fall Meyer returned to his alma mater as
chancellor.
Meyer, from Port Washington, Wis., was the
first in his family to go away to college. His high
school shop teacher, UW-Stout alumnus Tim
Fuchs, had convinced him that UW-Stout was the
college for him.
“Tim was a great teacher,” Meyer said. And if
he said UW-Stout was the place for him, Meyer
figured it must be so. Meyer and his father made a
visit to the school, and the decision was confirmed
without debate.
The campus had a friendly and inviting
atmosphere, Meyer said. “My father drove me
up and we were greeted by Chancellor Robert
Swanson,” Meyer said. “My father was put at
ease,” he said. “It never felt like a high risk or
uneasy step.”
From that point, Meyer was in love. In 1975,
the campus felt like a “tremendous playground,”
he said. It was lab intensive, academic and
enormously welcoming.
Young co-ed, Deb Klein, who was majoring in
home economics, also captured Meyer’s heart. In
addition to a B.S. degree, Deb Klein Meyer has a
master’s degree in home economics education from
UW-Stout.
Meyer became involved in student government;
was a senator with the Stout Student Association;
vice president of Student Activities; administrator
to the president of the SSA and worked with
Sam Wood, then assistant chancellor for Student
Services/Dean of Students, on student voter
registration.
Bob Meyer
As an undergraduate Meyer planned on a
teaching career, and after graduation he landed a
job at River Falls High School. However, UWStout was in his blood, and after one year he
returned as an adjunct teacher in wood technology.
During that time he enrolled as a graduate student
and received his master’s in 1983 in management
technology.
Ten years sped by as Meyer found more and
more to do at the university. “I lost track of time, I
was enjoying it so much,” he said. He was growing
and learning and had such great role models in his
teachers and others he worked with that “I had no
impetus to leave,” he said.
In 1990, Meyer was recognized as Outstanding
Teacher of the Year. He taught for 17 years in
the School of Industry and Technology, now the
College of Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics. It was a great opportunity, and he
was surrounded by mentors and supportive leaders,
he said.
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Published biannually by UW-Stout’s School of Education
The School of Education has a lot to celebrate
Brian McAlister, School of Education
In the spring 2013 issue of Benchmarks, we honored the life
and career of former chancellor Robert S. Swanson. Our new
chancellor Robert Meyer — who prefers to be called Bob —
shares more than a first name with Swanson. Both earned their
bachelor’s degrees from UW-Stout and launched their careers as
teachers in industrial arts, now technology education.
But one doesn’t have to look far into this issue of Benchmarks
to realize that these two Bobs are not the only UW-Stout graduates
to follow paths to leadership.
David Hay, with his marketing and business education degree,
became a high school principal. Now, he is a student in the
Brian McAlister
Doctorate of Leadership program at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education.
While not everyone aspires to leadership roles at a university, many have found
success in their own right.
Art education alumna Greta Anderson Munns, who briefly was in foster care as a
teenager, is the part-time liaison in UW-Stout’s Fostering Success program for students
who spent time in foster care. Munns was invited to share her wisdom at a graduation
party for foster care youth held at the Governor’s Mansion in Madison last summer.
The School of Education is proud to offer programs that are instrumental in
launching professional careers, and the success of our graduates speaks volumes of the
value and prestige of our programs.
Brian McAlister, Editor
Hannah Flom, Writer
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Renee Chandler receives Jax Teaching Excellence Award
Renee Chandler was selected to receive
the Jax Teaching Excellence Award in
May.
“My passion for teaching stems from
my belief that all individuals can learn,”
she said.
Chandler came to UW-Stout in the fall
of 2008 and taught in the special education
program. She is now program director for
the online master’s in education program.
Her background includes teaching
Renee Chandler
students identified as having emotional and
behavioral disorders at South Middle School in Eau Claire, Wis.
She has taught students who live in extreme poverty as well
as those who represent a middle class background. “I have taught
typically developing children and those who have significant
challenges, both academically and behaviorally,” she said.
“I embrace the challenge of finding ways to overcome the
barriers that some learners have experienced in their previous
schooling,” she said.
Because of her range of teaching experience she is well
equipped to work with university students, she said.
“I believe it is important to have real-life examples to support
what you are teaching,” she said.
One of her primary research interests is Universal Design for
Learning, a framework for meeting the widest possible range of
needs in a specific teaching context.
“For me, the ultimate compliment is when a student tells
me how much they learned in my class and that they plan
to implement some of my teaching strategies into their own
context,” Chandler said.
The Jax Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes
career achievements in teaching for SOE faculty or staff, was
established in 2004 by Judy and Joe Jax.
Carol Johnson awarded Robert S. Sedlak Spirit of Community
Award
Carol Johnson
Carol Johnson was awarded the Robert
S. Sedlak Spirit of Community Award
in May.
Johnson teaches in the school
counseling program and is in her eighth
year at UW-Stout. She has spent the last
40 years as an educator.
“I believe in service leadership
and advocating for others,” she said.
The award is important because “it is
recognition by my peers for my lifelong dedication to education
and teaching the next generation of school counselors,” she said.
The award, with a monetary gift of $300, was established in
2007. It recognizes a faculty or staff member within the School of
Education or a related unit in the university who demonstrates the
same commitment and leadership that Robert Sedlak exhibited in
his career. The award is funded by friends and university colleagues
of Sedlak who died in November of 2006.
Wismer receives Outstanding Educator Award
Kurt Wismer
Kurt Wismer, ‘00, marketing and
business education, was selected
to receive the Wisconsin Business
Education Association K-12 Outstanding
Educator Award in October at the WBEA
Conference in Eau Claire, Wis.
Wismer is completing his master’s
degree in career and technical education
at UW-Stout, while teaching business,
marketing and information technology at
North Fond du Lac School District.
He also is a Google Certified Teacher and Trainer and
an educational trainer for EdTech Sages, a new educational
technology training and consulting group.
Wismer is a strong proponent of educational technology and
thrives on project-based learning environments, he said.
When asked the key to being a successful educator,
Wismer said, “I am lucky to have a job that I do not consider
work. I truly enjoy what I do... when you are passionate about
your work, it is easy to be successful.”
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Meet the new faculty
Tami Weiss, instructor and program
director in art education, has a bachelor’s
degree in art education from UW-Stout; a
master’s in education from UW-La Crosse;
and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction
from the University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities.
She has taught at the university since 2010
and was named Program Director of the
Year in 2011-12.
Tami Weiss
Weiss’ research interests are in teacher
education and assessment; comprehensive
art education; aesthetics; interdisciplinary education; learning
technologies; arts-based research; phenomenology and critical
discourse analysis.
Weiss is married and has three children. Originally from
Cottage Grove, Minn., Weiss came to Menomonie to attend UWStout. After graduating in 1999, she moved to La Crescent, Minn.,
where she taught high school art for 10 years. She returned in
2008 to teach art in the Elk Mound School District.
When Weiss isn’t teaching, she can be found on the stage
of the local theater. This fall, she and all her family performed
in Menomonie Theater Guild’s production of “It’s a Wonderful
Life.”
Her hobbies also include painting and fooling around with
Photoshop. Weiss is on a bowling league and likes to play
tennis. “Someday I would like to be on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ or
‘Survivor,’” she said.
Out of the mouths of babes
What does a chancellor do?
In September, Chancellor Bob Meyer visited the fouryear-old class at the Child and Family Study Center. The
children were told that the school had a new chancellor and
were asked what they thought he might do each day at work.
Marcus: I
hope he has a
mustache!
Nadia:
He drives
planes.
Alice: He’s
in charge of
Minnie Mouse.
In September, Chancellor Bob Meyer visited the four-year-old
class at the Child and Family Study Center.
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Everett: He’s
in charge of
police officers.
Allison: He takes
care of the
Stout school.
Zoey: I think
he vacuums...
Ben: He cleans
boats and
airplanes.
Haylie: He
makes toys.
Jacob: He
talks through a
microphone.
Arianne: He
takes care
of babies
Sophia: He helps
the school.
Laith: He’s in
charge of dotters
and markers
Marley: He
takes care of
the University.
Ariana: “He’s
in charge of
the world.”
CJ: He takes
care of bugs.
Owen: He writes
papers and stuff.
Talal: He
just runs.
Alumnus/chancellor reflects on role models at UW-Stout
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Despite the fact that he had a passion for teaching —“for seeing the light go on in
students’ eyes,” he said — Meyer decided to transition into administration. In his new
leadership role, he led the Stout Technology Transfer Institute — now the Discovery
Center — as the bridge between the university and industry. He also was the dean of the
College of Technology, Engineering and Management.
His early experiences with his teachers, colleagues and former Chancellor Robert
Swanson left their mark and influenced him in his leadership philosophy and goals.
“Chancellor Swanson had the ability to recognize and praise people, to celebrate
their success,” he said.
“If I can emulate Bob Swanson and his wonderful touch with people in any way, I’ll
be very proud of that,” Meyer said.
The campus of 1975 differs greatly from the one of today, he said. “You wouldn’t
recognize today’s labs from 39 years ago.” Technology and the digital learning
environment also is a huge change, he said.
But some things never change, Meyer said. The university still honors the values of
James Huff Stout that are carved in the lintel above Bowman Hall: “For the Promotion
of Learning Skill Industry and Honor.”
Another constant is the amazing dedication and quality of the staff and their
commitment to student success, Meyer said.
“My job is to find ways to support that,” he said.
In 1977, Bob Meyer won the standing-on-one-leg
competition.
Greta Munns speaks from experience
Gretta Munns
In the summer of 2014, alumna Greta
Anderson Munns had the opportunity to
share some wisdom with foster care youth
at the 2014 high school graduation party
at the governor’s mansion in Madison.
The event, hosted by Gov. Scott
Walker, is for students who may not have
families capable of giving them a party.
Quoting from the book “Little Bee” by
Chris Cleave, she encouraged the young
people to look at scars from their pasts
as something beautiful. “‘A scar means, I
survived,’” she quoted.
Munns, part-time foster-care liaison for the Fostering Success
program at UW-Stout, understands.
“I had a lot of wounds when I entered foster care at 15. And
I say wounds not scars, because they hadn’t healed yet.” Munns
suffered from depression and self-injury. “I didn’t know what to
do with all the pain from my wounds,” she said in her address.
Munns did receive the support and care she needed, and the
wounds gradually healed. That journey is “a huge part of what
makes me whole, and I feel so fortunate,” she said.
The foster program provides specific support to UW-Stout
students who were placed in foster care at some time in their
youth.
UW-Stout is a great school for foster care alumni because it
provides important services, such as a laptop, textbook rental and
tutoring services, she said.
Munns became an advocate from experience, not only her
own but by interning with foster care organizations in 2009 and
2010 when she was in college.
Also in 2009, she testified at a congressional Ways and
Means Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., concerning the
impact of the Fostering Connections Act of 2008 on low-income,
transitioning college students.
After she graduated from high school, she received a $5,000
scholarship from the state Department of Children and Family
Services and attended UW-Stout, majoring in art education. “Art
is a good way to connect with others; it is an instant equalizer,”
she said.
Munns taught K-8 art for one year in Chicago at Piccolo
School of Excellence, where most students live below the
poverty level, she said. Living in Eau Claire, Wis., Munns
recently became the mother of twins, a boy and a girl, and is
happier than she thought was possible.
To support Fostering Success, refer to https://foundation.
uwstout.edu/pages/givings/fostering-success
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Richness beyond hopes
Flom has sabbatical experience with low-income youth
In the fall of 2013, Barb Flom left her
classroom of graduate students to fulfill a
goal of working directly with low-income
urban youth in the Minneapolis and St.
Paul area.
Flom took a sabbatical for the 2013-14
academic year and commuted two to three
days a week to the Minnesota Internship
Center Charter High School. She teaches
in the school counseling master’s program
and is licensed as a school counselor in
Barb Flom
Minnesota.
The placement allowed “direct encounter with some of the
most disenfranchised, discouraged and resilient youth in the
Twin Cities,” she said. She also was able “to experience daily the
impact and reality of the education reform movement as it plays
out in one urban charter school,” she said.
“These young people are an untapped resource,” Flom
said. “In spite of all they had been through, most of the
students were touchingly hopeful about their futures.”
Flom volunteered in MNIC’s Students Services Department
at the Unity site in North Minneapolis, MNIC’s largest site, with
about 100 students; and the St. Paul/Midway site, which houses a
program for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.
MNIC also collaborates with the community to provide various
support services to meet the students’ physical needs.
Students attending the school work part time and attend classes
part time.
As a volunteer counselor, Flom worked with students on their
plans post-graduation. She asked them, “What are you going to do
after you have your high school diploma?”
Her efforts were rewarded. “My sabbatical experience provided
richness beyond my hopes in terms of service to urban youth,”
she said.
Included in her caseload was a cognitively challenged young man
who lived at a youth shelter while attending MNIC and a young
man with a significant criminal history who was one credit short of
receiving his high school diploma. With Flom’s help, he developed
an education and postgraduate plan and graduated in May.
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“He was so proud of himself,” she said.
The alternative public high school accepts students ages 15
to 21 who have failed in one way or another in other schools. Some have served time in correctional institutions, and many are
parents, she said.
“Between 20 to 50 percent of all MNIC students in any given
year meet the federal definition of homeless,” Flom said.
Flom loved the experience. She was counseling young
people who were on the verge of becoming adults and whose
backgrounds were very different from hers, she said.
The MNIC students she worked with were respectful and
appreciative of having someone listen to them as they shared
their dreams and hopes. “These young people are an untapped
resource,” Flom said. “In spite of all they had been through, most
of the students were touchingly hopeful about their futures,” she
said.
In September, Flom returned to her university students to train
them in the “work I most love,” she said. She has incorporated
much of her new-found knowledge into her courses. Her
hands-on experience has added “depth to my understanding of
comprehensive PK-12 school counseling programs,” she said.
As a school counselor, Flom gained an important take-away.
“The sabbatical placement really allowed me to live out
the importance of hope and the value of small, successful steps
forward in the counseling process.”
MNIC students graduate in May.
Leaning toward leadership
Principal Hay returns to classroom at Harvard
Alumnus David Hay used to occupy a high school principal’s
office in Western Wisconsin. Since September, he has taken
on the mantle of a student and is in the fifth cohort of the
new Doctor of Education Leadership program at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education, which is a joint venture between
the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School
for Public Service.
Hay’s leaning toward leadership is not new.
At UW-Stout, Hay, from Antigo, Wis., served in student
government as a senator, caucus leader, financial affairs director
and, in his senior year, as student body president.
“My passion for social justice and my drive to help shape a
more prosperous, fair and sustainable future for our society lends
itself to education leadership,” he said.
“Over the last decade that I have been involved in education,
I have seen first-hand the power of education to change the lives
of students and in doing so to change the world,” Hay said.
Leadership experience was “pivotal in my understanding of
the various roles of leadership,” Hay said.
Hay also learned the importance of strong mentors, seeking
advice and the art of leveraging influence. “My experience at
UW-Stout solidified the idea in my mind that the only true power
we have as leaders is through the deep relationships we build, not
in the titles we hold,” Hay said.
After graduating in 2004 with a B.S. degree in marketing
and business education, Hay took a position at Kettle Moraine
High School in Wales, Wis. After one semester, he was asked to
become dean of students, then to assume the position of associate
principal and, shortly thereafter, the position of principal.
In 2011, he left to become the principal in Tomah, where he
incorporated his vision of personalized learning in the area of
math to students in grades 6-9. The initiative is already showing
promising signs of increased student achievement, Hay said.
Hay is looking forward to the next three years at Harvard, the
“institution that is best-poised to lead the charge to transform the
K-12 system in the new millennium,” he said.
In committing his time and energy to being a doctoral
student, Hay expects change.
“I anticipate learning, growing and having my own
assumptions about education and the task of transforming
education challenged in ways I cannot imagine right now,” he
said.
David Hay, outside Radcliffe Hall, is a student in the Education Leadership
program at Harvard University.
Art in the neighborhood
Tami Weiss’ seven year old daughter RaeLinne enjoys making art once a week with
UW-Stout students majoring in art education. The college students run the Children’s
Art Club for local kids, ages four to 12, at 6 p.m. Tuesdays, with fun art activities and
supplemental art education.
This year’s theme is Artists through the Ages, and each week the children are
introduced to an artist.
So far, they have met Leonardo Da Vinci, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent
Van Gogh. The club is in its third year and shows no signs of slowing down.
Children’s Art Club after-school program.
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Faculty and staff:
Mary Alice Anderson, Online Professional Development, published
“THE NEW MEDIA CENTER: Ten Titles for Your Professional Growth
and Collection,” in May, Internet @ Schools, An Educator’s Guide to
Technology and the Web, www.internetatschools.com/Articles/Column/
The-New-Media-Center/THE-NEW-MEDIA-CENTER-Ten-Titles-for-YourProfessional-Growth-and-Collection-97025.aspx.
Mary Alice Anderson published “Where can I Find Information about
Charley Goddard?” in Library Media Connection, May/June.
Mary Alice Anderson published “THE NEW MEDIA CENTER: Not Just for
History — Primary Sources in the Science and Health Classroom,” in
January, Internet @ Schools, An Educator’s Guide to Technology and the
Web, www.internetatschools.com/Articles/Column/The-New-MediaCenter/THE-NEW-MEDIA-CENTER-Not-Just-for-History--Primary-Sourcesin--the-Science-and-Health-Classroom-94610.aspx
Mary Alice Anderson published “Student Disovery Sets: Ebooks from
the Library of Congress” in Random Thoughts Change, Primary Sources &
Other Stuff blog http://maryalicea.wordpress.com/.
Mary Alice Anderson published “Discovering Local History Resources
in Your Own Back Yard,” a chapter for Interacting with History: Teaching
with Primary Source. Kathy Lehman, ed., ALA 2014.
Ann Bell, Online Professional Development, and Kay Lehmann
presented “Two Trends: Incorporating Mobile and Flipped Strategies into
Distance Learning” at the conference on Distance Learning and Teaching
in August in Madison, Wis.
Jill Klefstad presented “Learning through Inquiry” for the Madison
Metropolitan School District in August.
Klefstad; Susan Wolfgram, human development and family studies;
Tami Weiss, School of Education; Cynthia Rohrer, food and nutrition;
and Robin Muza, human development and family studies, presented
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“Retaining Freshman: High Impact Practices and Student Engagement”
at the Lilly Teaching and Learning Conference in October in
raverse City, Mich.
Mensink co-authored “Music and memory: Effects of listening to music
while studying in college students” in UW-Stout Journal of Student
Research.
Klefstad and Sapna Thapa presented “Engaging, Supporting, and
Retaining Men within an ECE Program on a Four-year Campus: The
Early Steps in Forming a Men’s Club” at the National Association of the
Education of Young Children, in November, in Washington D.C.
Mensink co-produced and presented the poster, An Exploration of
Electrodermal Activity During Comprehension of a Seductive Scientific
Text at the annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse in
August in Chicago.
Student and alumni news:
Diane Klemme received the Leader Award from the American Family and
Consumer Sciences Association at the national conference in June in St.
Louis. The award recognizes and honors family and consumer sciences
professionals who have made significant contributions to the field
through involvement with the AAFCS.
Kay Lehmann and Datta Kaur Khalsa, Online Professional Development,
presented “The Role of Social Media” at Transforming the Teaching
and Learning Environment: the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Virtual Conference.
Kay Lehmann and Susan Manning presented “Be an eLearning Rock
Star! Best Practices in Online Facilitation” at Conference on Distance
Learning and Teaching. in August in Madison, Wis.
Susan Manning, Online Professional Development, presented
“Designing and Implementing a Digital Badge System” at Conference on
Distance Learning and Teaching, in August in Madison, Wis.
Susan Manning published “The Potential and Value of Using Digital
Badges for Adult Learners,” in American Institutes for Research, http://
lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/AIR_Digital_Badge_Report_508.pdf.
Michael Mensink, co-authored “Informing the Design of Future Literacy
Technologies with Theories of Cognitive Science” in Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
(Ed.) Encyclopedia of information science and technology, Third edition,
Hershey, Pa.
Joshua Gauthier, ’11, marketing and business education, is a business
education teacher in the Denmark School District, He serves on the
Denmark School District Technology Committee and recently attended
the Google Teacher Academy in July and is a Google Qualified Individual.
Alumna Jamey Karnitz, ’13, is a respiratory therapist instructor at MidState Technical College in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
Alumna Dawn Oler,’03, family and consumer sciences education, has
been named Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Association of Family and
Consumer Sciences. Oler teaches at Hinsdale Central High School.
Alumnus Josh Bleskacek, ’02, early childhood education, has been
hired as a second grade teacher at Elmwood Elementary School.
Krystian Weglarz, graduate student in career and technical education,
was recently recognized by Ten80 Education and the U.S. Army
for his work with a 2013-14 after-school STEM club at Gage Park
High School in Chicago, where he is an engineering and technology
instructor. The program exposes juniors and seniors to STEM education
through a Remote Control Car Racing Team curriculum. http://www.
studentracingchallenge.com/