RESUME
Holly Hart, Ph.D.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Consultant to school districts, charter schools and businesses
Founded and administered three charter and one alternative school
Secured and executed state and federal grants totaling over 25 million dollars
Established three 501(c) 3 non-profit corporations and one foundation
Past President Wisconsin Charter Schools Association
Co-Chaired State Superintendent’s Charter School, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Advisory and Truancy Advisory Councils
Vice Chair State Superintendent’s Special Education Advisory Council
Member State Superintendent’s New Generation of Assessment Task Force
Member State Joint Legislative Committee on School Safety
Certified Team Chair AdvancED School Accreditation
Instructed at universities and technical colleges
Presented at various state and national conferences
EDUCATION
Educational Administration - Ph.D.-University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Guidance/Counseling - M.S. and Ed.S. - University of Wisconsin-Stout, WI
Professional Development and Adult Learning/Training and Development - M.S. - University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI
English, Sociology and Secondary Education - B.A. - Lawrence University-Appleton, WI
EXPERIENCE
Consultant – Education and Business - Holly Hart Consulting
- Planned and lead strategic planning and action planning processes
- Advised charter school founders, developers and authorizers
- Designed and implemented team building initiatives
- Provided crisis response planning and training
- Administrated Myers-Briggs Type Indicator training (Certified purchaser through the Association for Psychological Type)
- Provided training and consultation in the areas of organizational development, site based management, restructuring, group dynamics and time management
- Delivered consulting services and training on brain research covering the topics of : birth to 6, adolescents, anger management, male and female differences and addiction (Trained facilitator Brain Based Learning by Pat Wolfe)
- Evaluated and developed plans to improve school climate (Trained facilitator for Restitution discipline and climate model by Diane Gossen)
- Delivered consulting services and training in the areas of charter schools, curriculum development, discipline, crisis intervention and response, at risk students, drug abuse prevention teen pregnancy prevention and homeless children and youth
School Administrator -Eau Claire Area School District and Cooperative Services Agency #10
Founded and Administered Four Schools
- An alternative school serving 200 at-risk students each year. Results: 1,971 graduates, a 80% plus average yearly graduation rate, two follow up studies documenting post secondary and employment success
- A charter school serving over 850 incarcerated, expelled, severely violent, and drop-out students per year. Results: over 900 graduates and recipient of a federal charter school dissemination grant
- A technology charter school serving over 200 students per year providing CISCO, computer programming, operating systems, networking and computer construction and repair courses -Results - students passed industry CCNA and A+ certification tests and graduated with up to 18 “transcripted” college credits. Recipient of a federal charter school dissemination grant.
- A kindergarten through 5th grade Montessori charter school serving 150 students per year. Result: Selected as a federal dissemination grant recipient
Administrative Accomplishments
- Served simultaneously as an administrator of four schools for five years
- Served as administer of the at-risk, drug and alcohol prevention, child care, teen parent, and homeless children and youth programs for twelve years for the eighth largest school district in the state
- Hired staff and supervised up to150 staff per year
- Hired and mentored aspiring administrators to ensure sustainability of each school
- Developed and implemented budgets for four schools on seven sites serving a total of over 1500 students per year
- Developed and oversaw five year strategic plans, technology plans and facility improvement plans
- Designed and implemented school site-based management systems
- Developed schedules, policies, board orientation processes, data collection systems, accountability measures, evaluation processes, follow up studies, annual reports and web sites
- Supervised development of a K-12 integrated, thematic, hands-on curriculum for at-risk students
- Studied various culture and discipline models and developed a comprehensive program to foster the development of internal control mechanisms within each student
- Taught middle, high school, and post secondary school courses
- Conducted tours for over 400 visitors per year who sought to replicate the models
Innovative Program Design
- Created national model site based crisis response plans for schools and non-profit agencies
- Designed and implemented a unique dual-credit option in partnership with the area technical college and two area universities that provided up to 18 free transcripted college credits to students attending technology charter school courses on their high school campus (Recommended as a state high school to post-secondary school transition model)
- Designed a process and engaged specialists to align the Montessori curriculum to the Wisconsin state educational standards (Recommended as a process to prove the validity of the Montessori elementary curriculum)
- Facilitated the development of a process for implementing special education for learning disabled students in a non-text book, multi-age and multi-grade setting (Recommended as a state and national model)
- Facilitated the acquisition of a computer based art and a piano/music curriculum (Designed to reduce staffing costs while increasing student achievement and opportunity)
- Facilitated the creation of a Montessori book room organized by curricular theme and reading level (Distributed to other Montessori schools through out the state and nation)
Partnerships/Collaborations
- Negotiated business and community partnerships to support the four schools with monetary and in-kind contributions
- Facilitated a six school district collaboration for the technology school providing the opportunity to the students of the surrounding small school districts
- Developed an agreement with an area parochial school to offer dual-credit technology courses on-site at the parochial school in collaboration with the charter school, local school districts, technical college and universities
- Partnered with local businesses to establish three scholarships for graduates of both an at-risk alternative and charter school
- Developed a model to create non-instrumentality charter schools outside of Milwaukee within the constraints of state laws
Non-Profit Corporations
- Created three 501(c)3 non-profit corporations for district authorized instrumentality charter schools to hold the contract for and to govern each school (recommended as a state model)
- Developed an independent governance model for instrumentality charter schools
- Established a non-profit foundation to support the three charter schools
- Recruited business and community leaders to serve on the charter school and foundation boards
- Founding member and President of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association
- Founding member and Vice President of the Wisconsin Public Charter Schools Institute
Grants
- Secured over 25 million dollars in grant funding and $90,000 in donations
- Wrote successful grant applications for the technology, Montessori, and at risk charter schools; substance abuse prevention, homeless children and youth, teen parent programs, community collaboration initiatives, after school programs, on-site school day care programs, counseling services, and dissemination projects
- Secured federal Safe and Sound program funding for the community
- Wrote and secured two planning grants, six implementation grants and three federal dissemination grants for charter schools
- Secured funding to implement a K-5 Spanish program, 6-12 Read 180 program and computerized art and music programs
- Worked with a team to secure resources to deliver an inter-generational art project for elementary students and senior citizens
- Participated on over 28 grant reading committees at the state and national level
PUBLIC SERVICE
Board of Directors – Wisconsin Charter Schools Association, Boy’s and Girl’s Club, Red Cross, YMCA, Refuge House Domestic Abuse Center, Eau Claire Coalition for Youth, L.E. Phillips Public Library, Indianhead Federated Library System, Eau Claire Preschool
Other Community Service – Rotary, City of Eau Claire Comprehensive Planning Committee, County Economic Support and Juvenile Justice committees, Eau Claire Junior League
Certification/Licensure - District Administrator; Elementary and Secondary Administrator/Principal; Pupil Services Director/Director of Special Education; Supervisor, Curriculum Coordinator and Director; Counselor (K-12); Secondary and Elementary Teacher; English Teacher, Sociology Teacher
References available upon request