Working Together to Improve Schools and Communities
Carole and Ron encourage people to improve their knowledge so they can make informed choices to improve themselves and their communities. They value differences and enjoy researching and sharing facts to improve economic equality based on each person’s skills. abilities, and interests. They worked for environmental health, safety of people, and transparency & accountability of their representatives. They ask, “Who benefits?” and then research and share facts, not BS (Bullying, Bashing, Belittling Speech) so each person can choose based on caring or greed.
They care about HDR democracy: Human Rights and sustainable finite critical Resources in a Democracy of, by and for all people, not just a few.
Fish Creek Businesses: For 24 years they operated a successful hospitality and retail businesses.
- Learned employee and customer relations and how to manage finances
- Worked to restore historical buildings at Peninsula Park-View
Based on 60 years of diverse experiences in schooling Carole and Ron believe that the best public schools teach children to become caring adults can research to find facts to support their opinions and who appreciate each other’s differences. Their job is to improve their own abilities and learn how to use their power to vote so they can make wise decision++s about themselves, their families and their communities.
Reading, Sharing, Laughing, Caring back to the basics is based on ideas learned from many experiences. Carole and Ron each taught more than 30 years in diverse neighborhoods with families of all income levels. Carole taught Pre-K to grade 12, at a university, and in two youth prisons. They believe that reading, researching and assertiveness skill is essential to all learning and to good governing in a democracy of, by and for all people. They are concerned that because these governing skills were not part of the excellence in education program, ignorance was created.
- Ron taught tech ed and reading, and was a builder, and owned a basement contracting and a hospitality business.
- Carole taught science, social studies, language arts, remedial math, and reading in elementary, middle school and high school. She observed and helped teachers as a K-12 reading specialist and when supervising preteachers as part of her advanced studies. She was 1 of 3 people to represent the UW at an international education conference in Sweden.
- For her Masters Thesis, Teaching Reading To Transescent Students, Carole discussed teaching reading to diverse middle schoolers whose skills ranged from non readers to gifted readers.
Other experiences:
- Provided guidance for our treatment care foster son
- Recreation director in nursing homes, a youth prison, a hobby farmer and lifeguard at YMCA
- Helped partner build a log home, a passive solar home, and remodel a home to be an envelope home. Ron remodeled an old motel and two suites for a hospitality business.
- Worked to help political HDR candidates
- School board president when kids were in school and help as a board member of a political party.
Carole’s education: all K to 12 and advanced schooling has been in Wisconsin schools
- Bachelor’s Degree: UW Madison in School/Community Leadership in Recreation Education
- Additional Certifications: K-8 Classroom, Reading Teacher, Reading Specialist
- Post Masters research/certifications: curriculum, principal and superintendent
- Post masters thesis: Value differences using action research and post structural analysis
Hobbies: Biking, hiking, photography, supporting Door County arts and sharing stories.
- Each grey hair has a story about relatives, friends, teaching or travelers from all over the world
Believes in being a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage
- Believes everyone makes their own wise choices by questioning, researching and sharing to choose the best action to improve HDR in self and communities
- Views negatives as incentives for change: “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
Carole’s Treasures: family and friends to debate and laugh with