Updated: 18 December 2006

The WCSS welcomes Dr. Gerhard Fischer as the new DPI International Education Consultant.

Dr. Gerhard Fischer, a native of Germany, is the new international education consultant at Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. He came to Wisconsin after 12 years of teaching English and German in the German school system. For the last several years, he has developed and coordinated student and teacher exchange programs with Germany and has led sister state activities with Wisconsin's German sister state, Hessen. Gerhard is a promoter of connecting the curriculum to improve learning and teaching and has recently published the "Guide to Planning a Connected Curriculum" at the DPI. Gerhard has also published several articles and books on foreign language learning.

He replaces Madeline Uraneck who is now serving with the Peace Corps in Lesotho. Her address is:

Madeline Uraneck
c/o Peace Corps * Lesotho
Box 554
Maseru, Lesotho
AFRICA

She would appreciate getting mail from you and her email will be limited.

Thank you Madeline for all your years of dedication to International Education!

Madeline Uraneck has been the International Education Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction since 1990. She worked with student and teacher exchanges, sister state relationships, and has been a strong advocate for global studies and world languages in the curriculum. Madeline taught at Tokai University in Japan for three years. She has been a member of several planning boards: the Chiba - Wisconsin Sister State relationship, the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies, and the Wisconsin Geographic Alliance. She is a co-founder of the Friends of International Education and the Wisconsin Association of Teachers of Japanese. She has received fellowships for study in Sweden, Poland, and Morocco-Tunisia. She has also participated in educational travel in Thailand and Senegal, West Africa. Recently she informally adopted a Tibetan family of immigrants living in Madison, Wisconsin, which has helped her look at area schools from the vantage point of four teen-agers.