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Kleinsasser Named School-University Partnership Director

 

   The Wyoming School-University Partnership has a new director, according to Ray Schulte, chair of the Partnership’s Governing Board and Superintendent of the Hot Springs County District in Thermopolis.

  “Audrey is very dedicated to promoting the Agenda for Education,” Schulte says, “With her leadership skills, I am very optimistic about the future of the Partnership.”

   The WSUP provides a statewide network including 14 school districts, the Wyoming Education Association, and the Wyoming Community College Commission.  The partnership office is located in Laramie at the University of Wyoming as both the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Education are central partners.

The mission of the Wyoming School-University Partnership is to implement the collaborative efforts of the University of Wyoming, member school districts, the state department of education, and the community colleges in carrying out simultaneously the improvement of teacher education and the renewal of public schools.

   Since the June 2004 resignation of WSUP Director Sherry Palmer, Ed Paradis has served as interim director.    

   “I became interested in the partnership because it brings together all those concerned with public school education and is governed by a board of quality educators,” Paradis says. “Audrey is the perfect person to invigorate the membership.”

   Kleinsasser has directed Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Wyoming since 1999.  The center provides professional development for UW faculty and supports the university’s teaching, learning, and assessment mission.

   Also a professor of educational studies in the College of Education, Kleinsasser has been a faculty member at the university since 1988 and is the author or co-author of five books and monographs and dozens of articles and book chapters. She has written or co-written successful grant proposals totaling nearly one million dollars. 

The native South Dakotan and former secondary English and German teacher holds bachelor degrees in English and German from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of South Dakota, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology and research from the University of Kansas.  The Partnership’s website is http://www.uwyo.edu/wsup.