Hi, My name is Mark Wolcott. I was born in Kansas City, Mo and lived in Prairie Village, a suburb on the Kansas side until I was five. We moved to suburban Atlanta where I attended kindergarten and 1st grade. We moved again, this time to Englewood, Co (Denver area) where I attended 2nd and 3rd grade in the Cherry Creek School District Mon-Fri, and the Loveland Basin Ski school was attended religiously on Sundays complete with bus service! My dream of staring in Warren Miller films was cut short when my 1st step mother decided we should move back to K.C. (Prairie Village, Ks) where it would be more convenient to divorce my Dad. So I finished grade school (4th-6th) at Briarwood Elementary in the Shawnee Mission School District. Junior High was mostly spent at Meadowbrook Jr High, until my bad grades and new step mother got me shipped off to military school. So I finished 9th grade, spent my summers and 10th grade at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Mo. After some serious rebelling which included refusing to return to military school, I finished High School at Shawnee Mission East high School in 1988
My experience with technology is far less wordy. I really don't know what I am doing most of the time. I bought my first computer when I started college, so I sent my first e-mail in 2002! I can do word and a little excel, but prefer minitab, which I have used for Biostatistics. I took a graduate level class in landscape ecology which included a lab on GIS applications where I became somewhat familiar with ArcView. I am more familiar with PC's.
The College of Education's mission statement played no part in applying to CSUSM. After reading the mission statement, I find that the whole thing seems about right. However, diversity, educational equity, and especially social justice stick out the most for me.
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Your educational career has taken you to many places where, if not for the inconvenience of moving around so much, must've been an eye opener to the different diversities in students that we have in this country. I have traveled through your neck of the woods, Kansas, and realized that the folks there didn't differ too much from California. Glad to have you as a peer, and look forward to working alongside you!
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