Gregg Schneider

My qualifications:

• I  have served on the school board since September 2021.

• I have over 40 years’ experience as a teacher and administrator in three different school districts in Wisconsin and one in North Carolina.

• I have been a teacher, a program manager, a transition specialist, and an administrator. 

• I have overseen large budgets ($300,000-$500,000) as the Transition Specialist and coordinator of a diploma track in NC.

  • Occupational Course of Study (A diploma track for students with disabilities)

• I have observed the Beloit Board of Education for nearly two years.

• I served on the League of Women Voters' Education Study Committee. 

• I worked with businesses, agencies and school districts in Rock County for career/job development for students, including:

  • Reality Store

  • Amazing Race for Employment

  • Job Olympics

  • Community Conversation on employment and transportation

  • Business tours

  • Work experiences: Job Shadowing, Work Skills, Work Experience

  •  College tours: BTC, UW-Rock, UW-Whitewater, etc.

  • Project SEARCH®

• I have written, received and administered numerous grants in Beloit, including:

  • Employment First,

  • Transition Improvement Grant, and 

  • Graduation Rate Improvement Plan Grant.

• I have worked closely with the Departments of Public Instruction in Wisconsin and North Carolina

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Community Involvement:

• Mercyhealth Janesville Project SEARCH® Steering Committee, (former Chair)

• Aging and Disabilities Resource Center of Rock County's Advisory Board, 

• Docent and Board member of the Friends of Beckman Mill,  

• Deacon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 

• Creation Care, committee for Province V of the Episcopal Church, 

• Webmaster for the League of Women Voters of Beloit,

• Kiwanis,

• Immigration Task Force of Beloit, 

• NAACP, 

• Democracy Defenders, 

• Poor Peoples Campaign (national and state), and the

• Welty Environment Center. 

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