social-emotional and mental health supports ….

social-emotional and mental health supports • Laser focus on literacy and numeracy skills with defined outcomes for all kids

• Create strength-based pathways for all kids that provide career and college opportunities

• Require rigorous and relevant learning opportunities that culturally reflect the real world and the needs of our learners, so that all kids are well prepared for success in life after high school Innovate and personalize learning for all students

• Deliver child-centered personalized learning with innovative experiences and opportunities taught by learner responsive educators

• Eliminate digital divide and access to robust internet, especially in rural areas and underrepresented communities • Provide staff and parents professional development with digital tools to meet the needs of all learners

• Foster and celebrate innovations in our Wisconsin schools Engage families and communities as partners

• Aligning resources to ensure that all children and families are well served Find creative ways to engage families as valued partners in supporting their children’s learning

• Elevate all children and families to break down barriers to ensure access and opportunity

• Foster partnerships in our respective school communities to serve as catalysts for a world-class education

Dr. Steve Krull

Dr. Steve Krull is currently a Milwaukee elementary school principal. Growing up Krull says he did not like school. After high school he decided to wait on entering college and instead joined the US Air Force where he became an instructor, something he said fostered his joy of teaching. He was promoted to training manager and led the implementation of a student information system that tracked training of 100,000 troops annually.

After his time in the Air Force, Krull returned to Wisconsin and enrolled at Cardinal Stritch University to pursue teaching. Once he became a teacher he focused his classroom teaching efforts to ensure students had engaging lessons while using individualized learning catered to each student’s level of development. He was promoted to an instructional coach position and helped other teachers refine their teaching practices.

Krull earned his doctorate in Urban studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2016, while working full time.

“I’m running because I believe we can build an educational system in Wisconsin that can be a model for the nation. A system that no matter where you live or where you move, there will be a great school waiting. A system where our college students can begin their lives because they aren’t stifled with mass amounts of student debt. Essentially, a system where every child has a chance for a better life,” Krull states.

Steve met his wife Amanda in the Air Force and recently celebrated their nineteenth wedding anniversary. They have been blessed with two children, Imogen and Keith. Imogen is a freshman in college, and Keith is a sophomore in high school. The Krull family enjoys playing games, watching the Brewers play ball, and outdoor activities.

Dr. Jill Underly

Dr. Jill Underly is currently superintendent of Pecatonica School District. Underly states that she knew she wanted to be a teacher from the third grade and followed that dream teaching at the high school level and coaching softball.

Over the course of her career she has worked in all levels of education from preschool through college. She also worked for the DPI for five years in both educator licensing and Title I. She has been superintendent at Pecatonica for the past five years.

Underly and her siblings are all first generation college students, having grown up in Northwest Indiana where their father was a second-generation IBEW industrial electrician and their mother a homemaker. She came to Wisconsin in 2005 to pursue her graduate education at the University of Wisconsin– Madison, as a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. She received her doctorate in 2012 with a dissertation about the Federal Title I program and the impacts the administrative requirements have on both rural and urban districts.

She and her husband, John, have two children, both currently in middle school. They live on a small farm in southwestern Wisconsin and raise a menagerie of chickens, farm cats, and a Labrador Retriever among a grove of fruit trees and a large vegetable garden to sustain themselves, family and friends.

Dr. Shandowlyon “Shawn” Hendricks-Williams

Dr. Shandowlyon “Shawn” Hendricks- Williams is the former director of Gov. Evers’ Milwaukee office.

Shandowlyon Hendricks-Williams earned an associate degree in human services from Milwaukee Area Technical College, a bachelor’s degree in human services from Springfield College, a master’s degree in education from Cardinal Stritch University, and a doctoral degree in educational leadership from National Louis University.

Hendricks-Williams has completed several education fellowships including from Horace Mann-Abraham Lincoln: MetLife Teacher Network Leadership Institute (TNLI), the National Education Association (NEA), and New Leaders for New Schools.

Key messages of Hendricks-Williams campaign include:

• Promise to all Wisconsinites: We will maximize potential, create new trajectories and unveil opportunities for success for parents, students and teachers.

• Each Wisconsin student is guaranteed inalienable rights to a premier fully-funded education, learning experiences that result in achievement, liberty to form opinions and make decisions based on truth and fact, and high post secondary outcomes, inclusive of a transition plan and/or career and/or college readiness.

• Leading with her head, heart, hands and health.

In her campaign material, Hendricks-Williams states she looks up to her late grandmother, Martha Cliff (Mama Martha), who was a sharecropper. Her campaign states, “Mama Martha believed that with hard work, perseverance and education, there was nothing that Dr. Hendricks wouldn’t be able to do. When cooking good ole’ fashioned meals, Mama Martha ushered Dr. Hendricks out of the kitchen and told her to go read a book. Mama Martha believed that education would create opportunities for Dr. Hendricks that were not granted to her.”