Professional Development Schools

A New Way of Building Schools

Children WavingThe La Crosse and Onalaska School Districts and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Teacher Education Unit seek to create a network of university, school and community partnerships enhancing the quality of education for PK-16 students.  We believe:

"The power to reinvent teaching and schooling is located in neither the university nor the school, but in the collaborative work of the two." - Cochran-Smith(1991)

"Professional development schools (PDS) are organizations that cannot be created by either public schools or universities acting alone. They grow out of and depend upon the collaboration for their very existence." - Robinson & Darling-Hammond(1994) 

Primary Purposes

  1. Exemplary instruction and other educational experiences for PK-12 students
  2. Preparation of teachers and other school based educators
  3. Professional development of teachers and other school based educators
  4. Applied inquiry designed to improve practice

Grants & Funding Resources

Contact Information

Name

Email Address

Phone Number

Angell, Carol

Angell.caro@uwlax.edu 

608-785-8135

DiRocco, Pat

Dirocco.patr@uwlax.edu

608-785-8173

Finco, Fran

finfr@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us

608-781-9700 

Fruit, Roger fruro@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us 608-783-5366
Gerber, Tim Gerber.dani@uwlax.edu 608-785-6977

Heiden, Delores

heiden.delo@uwlax.edu

608-785-8149

Jensen, JoLyn

Jjensen@mail.sdlax.k12.wi.us 

 

Johnston-Rodriguez, Sarah

Johnston.sara@uwlax.edu 

608-785-8664

Kember, Jerry

gkember@sdlax.k12.wi.us  

608-789-7628

Koppelman, Kent

Koppelma.kent@uwlax.edu 

608-785-8130

Liska, Susan lissu@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us 608-783-2453

Siegel, Regina

rsiegel@sdlax.k12.wi.us

608-789-7990

Staloch, Teri

Staloch.teri@uwlax.edu 

608-785-8146

Tyser, Kathie

Ktyser@sdlax.k12.wi.us 

608-789-7653

Weiland, Lynn

Weiland.lynn@uwlax.edu 

608-785-6512

Wellman, Gene

wellman.gene@uwlax.edu 

608-785-8736