Email 5th Grade Teacher & County Line Webmaster
Phone: 262-253-3465
This is my twelfth year teaching at County Line and my fifteen
year teaching overall. I received my Bachelor of Arts Degree at
UW-Whitewater in 1995. I also was involved in many athletics and was the
place-kicker for the UW-Whitewater football team for four years.
I just received my Master's in Educational Technology from Marian
University in 2009. I created the County Line Web page ten years
ago, and I continue to maintain it.
I am very happily married for 14 years to my wife, Michelle, and we
have a daughter, Sierra, who is going into 6th grade! We live in
Hartford with our black lab dogs, Lambeau & Maddie, and a cat named Mercury.
I grew up in Germantown and attended County Line Elementary, KMS,
& GHS! When I have free time, I like to spend time with my family,
coaching, fishing, hunting, spending time at my place along the Mississippi River just north of Ferryville, and watching many sports. Go
Packers, Badgers,Bucks, & Brewers!
My main goal for my class is to create a relaxed learning environment that
allows students to succeed. I focus on the positives more than the
negatives. We also participate in a lot of cooperative learning activities and
incorporate technology use in my classroom. In my class we are known as a
TEAM and not a class. This means that everyone has a job to do and is a piece
of our TEAM puzzle. Another thing I do is I allow the students to take charge
of their own learning, and allow them to take chances in the room. Our main
class rule is RESPECT EVERYONE! I find that my students learn as much in the
classroom as they do out. So, I take those experiences and incorporate them
into my class. Just like some famous people said:
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
-- Vince Lombardi
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
-- Alan Kay
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education."
-- Mark Twain
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”
-– Vince Lombardi
All of this includes our school's plan and motto:
CARING, SHARING, LEARNING, FOR LIFE!!
I hope my team will remember this for their life also!
