Experience and Interests

Teaching

• Professor, School of Education & Director of Field Experiences, UW-Stevens Point (1990-2009)
• Assistant Professor, Rockford College (Illinois), Department of Education & Child Development (1989-90)
• Teaching Assistant, UW-Madison, School of Education (1985-89)

Presentations and Publications

Publications

• 2014. On a rhetorical technique in Leopold’s The Land Ethic: ‘That imperial first word.’ SAGE Open, 4. 
 https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014560546
• 2018. (with M. Kurtz).Teacher retention: Why they stay. SAGE Advance, 1. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.7403942.v1
• 2019. Lessons in curriculum from Aldo Leopold’s education. SAGE Advance, 1. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.9696395.v1

Involvement

Community

• Rotary Club of Columbus / Fall River, Secretary (2020-present)
• Columbus Area Endowment Executive Committee, President (2016)
• Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin, LLC, Board (2012-present)
• Columbia County Supervisor, District 21 (2014-present)
  •  Committees:
    • Information Services & Property
    • Solid Waste Management
    • Health Care Center
    • Highway & Transportation

Fun Facts

Last book you read?

Representations of the Intellectual (Said, 1994)

Best advice you ever received?

Omit needless words.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

An educator.

Favorite Quote?

Simplify! – Thoreau

One thing about your school that you are most proud of?

Our alumni.

What do you enjoy most about teaching?

Connections.

A piece of advice for students in your school?

Aspire to excellence.