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  1. Hello from, oh Claire Wisconsin,
  2. my name is Christy Mackler and this is my 27th year in education,
  3. My family. Um I've been married to my husband Travis for 10 years.
  4. Um I brought two kids to the marriage.
  5. So my son Jaden is a freshman in high school, he is 15
  6. and my daughter Kaylee is a vet out in Seattle.
  7. She specializes in small animal surgeries um enjoys operating on exotic,
  8. so a lot of times it's birds and snakes and
  9. hedgehogs and anything she can get her hands on.
  10. I don't know where she gets that, it's not from her mother.
  11. Um and then I have two dogs,
  12. I have a german shepherd named bear and an Australian shepherd named atlas.
  13. Um I graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison and
  14. I am about the biggest bucky fan you can find.
  15. Um I graduated with a degree in elementary head and then a health education minor.
  16. Um When I graduated from Madison I took a position teaching in Hawaii
  17. and I ended up spending 12 years teaching on the island of molokai.
  18. So while there I taught at King Kamehameha Elementary School,
  19. which is located in Lahaina Hawaii right next to the
  20. big old banyan tree if you've ever been there.
  21. Um it was a great experience, it was a very
  22. Culturally diverse experience for my first years of teaching
  23. um and King Kamehameha III was a large school,
  24. we had about 800 students at the time and it was also an inclusive school,
  25. which was different for the time when I was starting.
  26. So we were kind of a pilot school for the state of Hawaii
  27. in 2000 and 11 I moved home to Wisconsin um And
  28. I took a position teaching for regis regis catholic school,
  29. it's private school.
  30. Um I started off teaching in fifth grade and then went to the middle school,
  31. teaching middle school um Reading and language arts.
  32. Um
  33. The Middle School High School has about 450 students, it's a combined school.
  34. Um And then we have three elementary schools that kind of feed into our system.
  35. Another passion of mine since I started teaching at regis.
  36. So in about the last eight years I've also been
  37. a cooperating teacher for students in their last semester practicum.
  38. Um And I worked on global experiences.
  39. So I took one group of cooperating teachers about
  40. eight years ago to china and we spent the summer
  41. um working in schools in shanghai and Beijing,
  42. this is a picture of the kindergarten classroom that I worked in.
  43. Um and then about four years ago actually it was right before the pandemic.
  44. We took another group of teachers um on an experience and
  45. we went to Costa rica and worked with the bribery tribe
  46. and we worked primarily with high school students.
  47. Uh this summer,
  48. the day after school finishes um I leave to Bella bello
  49. Horizonte in brazil and I will be guiding teachers at the university
  50. there on what american education looks like and what experiences they
  51. can have for international travel and placement in our Wisconsin schools.
  52. My current position at regis is I am the academic and crew planner.
  53. Uh This is an unusual position for most schools,
  54. so I do all of the attendance scheduling
  55. dual uh partnership agreements and then I meet with
  56. every single junior and senior uh individually to plan
  57. out what their last two years look like.
  58. So we based it on where their goals are and what they
  59. want to do and if they should be in dual credit opportunities,
  60. so if they should be at our local technical school or at our university school,
  61. um if they should do an ap track um where their interests lie and and setting
  62. them them up for success for whatever direction
  63. they plan on going after they graduate.
  64. So in my current position I would say that I have had to be proficient in technology.
  65. Um I am the administrator for our system wide Sky where it's
  66. all five schools um I oversee everything that goes into that system,
  67. whether it be grade report cards, attendance, lunch count, uh State reports,
  68. even though we are a private school,
  69. we are part of the Wisconsin parental choice program.
  70. So that requires that we submit um monthly
  71. reports and quarterly reports to the state.
  72. Um So that is kind of a big bear in all in and of itself as Skyward.
  73. Um It also is where we do all of our scheduling for all of our students
  74. um and then google google classroom, uh still with covid being an issue much less,
  75. thank thank you, jesus, um much less,
  76. but it has been something that we've had to focus on,
  77. so um making sure that all teachers have their
  78. google classrooms up to date and they are submitting
  79. their video lessons so that at any point we
  80. can transition students to virtual education when needed.
  81. Um Right now we're kind of having an uptick in cases in our area,
  82. still minor compared to what it was before, so we will take it.
  83. Um and we also are a test to stay school.
  84. Um so that's helped us a lot, but I have had to kind of oversee the google classrooms.
  85. I am also in charge of security canvas and our website
  86. and then future goals for me is
  87. actually something that happened relatively recently.
  88. Um I have been named our middle school and high school principal.
  89. I am an interim principal right now, starting next year,
  90. um actually starting july 1st.
  91. Um so I'm interim until my degree is done, but it's very much what I have,
  92. I've been planning for and preparing for,
  93. so I'm very excited about what the future holds