BARBARA MARKLE, Ph.D., Director of K-12 Outreach markle@msu.edu

Barbara W. Markle directs the Office of K-12 Outreach in the College of Education at Michigan State University.  The Office develops and implements programs for teachers, administrators, university faculty, and policy makers that translate educational research to application in schools and settings where education policy decisions are made. Dr. Markle's public school experience includes service as a classroom teacher, school counselor, building principal and director of curriculum. She also served as Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Michigan Department of Education where she was responsible for Michigan’s reform initiatives. She directs several national grants, oversees the work of the Michigan Institute for Safe Schools and Communities, and serves on the Education Alliance of Michigan. Dr. Markle has a deep interest in school reform issues centering on teacher and administrator leadership. Her Ph.D. is in Educational Administration from Michigan State University.

Dr. Henry J. Hastings

 

Dr. Henry J. Hastings is currently the Acting Director of the Michigan Institute for Safe Schools and Communities, which is located in the College of Education at Michigan State University. The Institute, once fully established, will coordinate public and private efforts to create and maintain safe and drug-free learning environments that foster academic achievement, pursuant to the demands of the recently enacted No Child Left Behind Act. In addition to this responsibility, Dr. Hastings is a policy advisor to the Office of Drug Control Policy, an office within the Michigan Department of Community Health. 

 

Dr. Hastings is an attorney and has a doctorate from the University of Michigan in Educational Foundations and Policy, with an emphasis in values, ethics, and morality in educational policy.  During the course of his professional career Dr. Hastings has been a high school teacher, an assistant juvenile court prosecutor in two of Michigan's largest counties, Wayne and Oakland, a guardian ad litem for neglected and abused children, a successful businessman and practicing attorney, and an adjunct professor. Due to his broad and diverse background as an educator, lawyer, and businessman, he is an advocate of the importance of having a moral point of view, particularly when considering and developing educational policy and practice.

 

MARCIA LEONE, Academic Outreach Specialist
leonem@msu.edu

Marcia Leone assists the Director in developing and implementing outreach programs. She has served in the public education arena for almost 30 years. She taught in the elementary grades in Detroit and Lansing for 10 years prior to entering the education policy arena. She served as Legislative Consultant with the Michigan Association of School Boards and spent 14 years as Director of Communications and Member Services with the Middle Cities Education Association. There, she worked with a wide range of task forces made up of urban school administrators to influence state and federal education policy. Marcia holds a Masters degree in Instructional Systems Design and Communications from Michigan State University.

 

Bettie Landauer-Menchik, Data Services Unit
 menchikb@msu.edu
(517) 432-9470

Bettie Landauer-Menchik, formerly with the Education Policy Center, is now a part of the Data Services Unit.  Her goal is to help educators learn to use data to manage, monitor and improve student learning.  The mission of the newly established Data Services Unit is to enable practitioners to use data resources to inform improvement at classroom, school, or district level.  Bettie brings years of experience helping people find and use the statistical and demographic information they need for their communities or projects. She has been at MSU as a demographer for 20 years and has successfully trained hundreds of school administrators and students how to use data.    Formerly she worked for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Kids Count in Michigan project, and Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. 
 

CHRISTOPHER REIMANN, Academic Outreach Specialist

Christopher B. Reimann serves as Outreach Specialist for the Office of K-12 Outreach in Michigan State University’s College of Education.  Besides having taught high school English for ten years, Chris has worked in education reform at both the state and national levels since 1988, when he left the classroom to become education speechwriter for Governor Tom Kean of New Jersey. Chris worked for two years as a consultant to President Jim Kelly at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, then joined the Michigan Partnership for New Education as a special assistant to MPNE President Judith Lanier.  Before coming to the Office of K-12 Outreach, Chris was the Assistant Director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, where he worked on issues such as student preparation for postsecondary study, student assessment, teacher preparation and certification, K-12/university relations and the higher education budget. Chris is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation in education policy at MSU, where he was awarded the College of Education’s Outstanding Scholar Fellowship. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and did graduate study at Wesleyan University while a teacher.

KARLA BELLINGAR, Secretary
bellinga@msu.edu

Karla Bellingar joined the College's K-12 Outreach Office in April, 2002. She assists in coordinating seminars, conferences and workshops, assists with compiling grant proposals, designs conference advertisements for national publications, maintains bookkeeping records, creates layout and design flyers, brochures and a variety of conference materials, schedules meetings and coordinates the day-to-day activities of the Outreach office. As a 20 year veteran at MSU, Karla is a good resource for university policy and procedure.

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