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Lois Alt



Lois graduated from UW-Whitewater and began her career at Wisconsin Heights High School as a business education teacher. She then taught for three years at Nicolet High School lin Glendale while her husband finished dental school at Marquette University. When her husband entered the Air Force and was stationed in Minot, North Dakota, Lois taught accounting at Minot State College for one year. After moving back to Wisconsin and being a stay-at-home mom for ten years, she returned to the classroom in 1981 as a business education teacher at D. C. Everest Senior High. The first Apple II was rolled into the business education office in Fall 1981, and the rest is history! As computers became more sophisticated, applications became more user friendly, and LANS and WANS developed, the importance of computer skills became evident across the curriculum. Lois ultimately earned a Master's Degree from UW-Stevens Point and then a Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University with an emphasis on technology and educational leadership. She was awarded the Wisconsin Secondary Teacher of the Year Award in 1987 and the Nova Southeastern University Leadership Award in 1995. After being a classroom teacher for eleven years, Lois became a curriculum coordinator, a district director of technology, and currently serves as the assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and technology.

Lois helped create a seven-district consortium for technology integration in 2000. These schools have collaborated on successful competitive grant writing for eleven years. A major initiative was to create classroom technology mentors in all seven districts that assist and support classroom teachers in their districts to learn how to integrate technology into the PK-12 classrooms. Training is of critical importance whether it is in a one-to-one environment or in a graduate-level class. Lois is an adjunt instructor for Viterbo, Marian University, and UW-Stevens Point. With the introduction of smart devices not only in classrooms but in everyday life, there will always be a need to keep learning and growing. D. C. Everest is thrilled to be a Lighthouse District and is expanding their training efforts to businesses and organizations within the north central Wisconsin region.

Kathy Boguszewski

Kathy started teaching in 1967 in inner city schools in Cleveland, Ohio, before the Internet and computers in classrooms. Immediately she realized in her class of 40 students she needed to look at her student’s individual differences and guide them to learn through their strengths. She produced audio tapes that her students listened to when working in small groups while she worked with other groups. Problem-based research projects were a given. Her students all had strengths and their reading improved because the students focused on a passion rather than “one size fits” all reading approach. That vision of capitalizing on student’s strengths has stayed with her as technology advanced in her school settings. She believes in the ToTLE approach to learning. Together Twenty-first Century Learning Environment. She has authored and received over $300,000 in grants focusing on student engaged and creative learning and teacher teams guiding problem based learning. Kathy has served students as an elementary teacher and elementary librarian in Cleveland, Ohio and high school library media specialist at Milton High School. She served as a technology coach for the Milton School District and as a technology consultant for the WI Department of Public Instruction. She worked as an administrator for the School District of Janesville as the Library and Technology Coordinator. She was awarded the Wisconsin Kohl Fellowship. She serves on the Department of Public Instructions Digital Learning Advisory Council and the Common School Fund Advisory. She is serving the School District of Janesville as the Wisconsin Tech Initiative Lighthouse Grant Coordinator funded by John and Tashia Morgridge. Kathy has recently retired but works as a consultant. She started her consulting business: Innovative Learning Partnerships LLC. She works with school districts on grant writing, strategic planning, One to One Mobile Computing deployment, Interactive Technologies planning and offers graduate classes in 21st Century Skills.