School of Education Newsletter Fall 2022

FALL 2022

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University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education Update

Newsletter Highlights

New Faculty Members

Student Scholars

Awards, Honors, & Recognitions

From the Associate Dean/School of Education Director

Greetings and welcome to the new school year! I hope the school year is off to a great start for you. The UW-Stout campus is vibrant with all the students here excited about learning. There are currently 67 student teachers placed in schools and September 16 the student teachers were on campus for their first fall seminar. During the seminar they learned about trauma-informed school practices from a school counseling faculty member and gained some insights about classroom management from a panel of four teacher education faculty. When asked how their student teaching is going, nearly all students indicated a 4 or 5, with 5 being outstanding. This is thanks to all the school districts who are hosting our students and providing them with a positive learning experience, and our exceptional faculty and staff who prepared them well. I trust that our 31 school counseling and school psychology students are having experiences equally as positive. During the summer we had the inaugural meeting of our School of Education Advisory Committee. The members represent small and large school districts in our region as well as a CESA. We discussed student placements, the new substitute teacher license pathway, offering dual credit courses in education, and opportunities to attract people into teaching as a career. Committee members shared valuable comments and ideas. There are still seats available on the committee so if you are interested in being a member, please let me know. Speaking of summer, two UW-Stout teacher education graduates received awards from the Wisconsin Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. You can read more about this in later in the newsletter along with highlights about new faculty and instructional academic staff who joined us in Early Childhood Education, Special Education, School Counseling, and School Psychology programs. I was also hired as the full-time Associate Dean/School of Education Director and am pleased to continue serving all our education programs. It has been a busy start to the school year, with a lot of activity and changes. Enjoy the newsletter and please contact me if you have any questions about what UW-Stout offers through the School of Education.

Upcoming Notable Events

Deanna Schultz, Ph.D. schultzdea@uwstout.edu

NEW FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. Angela Axelrod, Assistant Professor, School Psychology : Dr. Axelrod spent 20 years working as a school psychologist and Pupil Services Director in Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin and is licensed as a private practice school psychologist. A native of Iowa, she earned her Ed.S. and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Molly Welch Deal, Assistant Professor, School Counseling: Dr. Welch Deal has been a high school counselor, mental health consultant for Head Start, and adjunct faculty member in the Psychology Department at UW-Stout. Her research interests include trauma-informed care, culturally responsive practices, gender equality, and positive psychology. She earned her M.S. in School Counseling from UW-Stout and her Ph.D. in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from University of St. Thomas. Dr. Riley Drake, Assistant Professor, School Counseling: Dr. Drake is a former elementary school counselor and during that time she initiated and co-led grassroots organizing in her school-community. Riley’s research focuses on educational justice and explores how educators honor and struggle alongside young people, families, and community organizers for liberation. She earned her M.S. in School Counseling from Drake University and her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies of Education at Iowa State University. We also welcomed Jackie Giedd , Lecturer in Special Education, and Casey Norton , Lecturer in Early Childhood Education. STUDENT SCHOLARS Erin O’Brien , Applied Mathematics and Computer Science – Math Education, is one of three 2019 Stout Scholars who received a $5,000 scholarship renewable for up to four years, for a total value of $20,000. The scholarship is awarded based on incoming first-year students’ GPA, ACT score, class rank, and an interview. Erin is the center on the UW-Stout women’s basketball team and studied in Budapest, Hungary in summer 2021. UW-Stout’s Tau Chapter of Phi Upsilon Omicron , an Honor Society in Family and Consumer Sciences and Related Fields, received several recognitions over the summer. The chapter received the Professional Project Region 1 Award for their project supporting area educators by creating gifts of gratitude and helping prepare materials during the 2021-2022 school year. Five chapter members were also awarded scholarships from the national organization for the 2022-2023 school year. The recipients are: • Peyton Bork, Family & Consumer Sciences Education, Geraldine Clewell Scholarship, $1,350 • Ciara DeLozier, Early Childhood Education, Forthun/ Rust Scholarship, $2,200 • Lindsey Fick, Early Childhood Education major, Phyllis S. Howe Scholarship, $5,800 • Korin Hall, Early Childhood Education, Closs/Parnitzke/ Clarke Scholarship, $1,000 • Alexis Setzer, Family & Consumer Sciences Education Margaret Jerome Sampson Scholarship, $5,950

Dr. Sharon Hansen, School Counseling faculty, presenting at the student teaching seminar September 14.

Dr. Angela Axelrod

Dr. Riley Drake

Ciara DeLozier

Korin Hall

AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITIONS Kathleen Thorn , Marketing/Business Education teacher at Colfax High School and UW-Stout alumnus, received the Wisconsin Association for Colleges of Teacher Education Early Career Education Award. This award recognizes an outstanding educator in the first three years of teaching who has made a positive impact on students. John Dickinsen , Science teacher at Colfax Middle School, received the Wisconsin Association for Colleges of Teacher Education Pre-Service Educator Award. This award recognizes an outstanding educator who has mentored pre-service teachers for at least five years and nurtured their development as teachers. Work done by School of Education faculty is receiving attention across the country. The College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, recently shared that they have adapted the dispositions developed by UW-Stout faculty and used in all UW-Stout teacher education programs. Assistant Professor Julienne Cuccio Slichko learned about them from Dr. Kevin Mason’s presentation at the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) in March 2022. She shared: “I wanted to reach out again and say thank you again for sharing all of your work on dispositions at AACTE in March…Over the summer I created self-paced modules for students to earn about the dispositions. We are so very grateful to your department for getting us started.” More information about the dispositions can be found online [link]. UPCOMING NOTABLE EVENTS September 30, 2022 Celebrating 100 years of Family and Consumer Science Education graduates! UW-Stout is celebrating FCSE alumni at the annual UW Stout Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Wisconsin DPI Child Care Conference [link] to be held on the UW-Stout campus. November 14, 2022 School of Education Teach Day This event will be held on campus for high school students interested in teaching as a career. UW-Stout students in the Art Education, Early Childhood/Early Childhood Special Education, Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Marketing and Business Education, Math Education, Special Education, and Technology Education programs will facilitate activities for high school students to learn about the pathway into teaching. Watch for more information to come later this fall.

Kathleen Thorn, Colfax High School Marketing and Business Education teacher, receives WACTE Early Career Education Award from Dr. Debbie Stanislawski, UW-Stout Marketing and Business Education faculty member.

John received the Pre-Service Educator Award from Dr. Kevin Mason, UW-Stout Teaching, Learning and Leadership Department Chair.

UW-STOUT EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS (MEET WISCONSIN LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS) Campus-based Degree Programs Undergraduate: • Art Education • Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education • Family & Consumer Sciences Education • Marketing & Business Education • Special Education • Technology Education • Applied Mathematics – Math Education Concentration Graduate: • School Counseling • School Psychology Distance-Delivered/Online Degree Programs (these programs are intended for career changers and other adult learners): • Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education • Family & Consumer Sciences Education* • Marketing & Business Education* • Special Education • Technology Education* • Other Licensure Certification Programs Career & Technical Education Coordinator Post baccalaureate Certification (online, graduate level) M.S. CTE Career & Technical Education Coordinator & Director of Instruction Concentration (online, graduate level) *Individuals hired under a WI Experience-based Technical and Vocational Education license may complete the Practical Skills for Beginning K-12 Career and Technical Educators certificate as the school district’s professional development curriculum, then continue into the online degree program in order to obtain certification for a Wisconsin Tier II teaching license. UW-Stout also offers a number of post-baccalaureate add on certifications for individuals with a previous education degree and who hold or are eligible to hold a Wisconsin Tier II license. A list of those certifications can be found on the Post-Baccalaureate Educator Certifications web page. Reading Teacher (online, graduate level) Reading Specialist (online, graduate level)

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