Stan Potts Heads Generator School Network

NYLC is pleased to announce the addition of Stanley J. Potts, Ph.D., as senior education specialist, providing leadership for NYLC’s Generator School Network. This new role grows out of his leadership in developing the self-assessment component of the Generator School Network and 12 years providing project support and consulting services to NYLC on a range of projects.

Stan brings extensive experience in K-12 education, service-learning, and state and federal grant programs. For 15 years, he worked in local school district administration in Wisconsin and Minnesota, overseeing adult and community education programs, and has served as an administrative consultant with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for the last 18 years.

During his tenure at DPI, he established the state’s Learn and Serve America grant management system as the state education agency representative, setting up a model regional delivery system serving 20,000 students each year. He also developed statewide VISTA and AmeriCorps programs, and coordinated multiple educational initiatives such as school-to-work, community education, Wisconsin Intergenerational Network, school volunteers, school improvement and family-school-community partnerships. Since 2001, Stan led professional development for Community Learning Centers, a state program that served 16,000 students per year in academic before and after-school programs, many of which incorporated service-learning.

He has had leadership roles in many regional and national service-learning initiatives as well, such as the Tri-State Initiative in the 1990s which explored best practices in district-wide service-learning and a following program which trained state education agency staff in developing state policies supporting service-learning.

Stan is also an experienced trainer and instructor. In addition to designing and presenting training for educators at local, state, and national events, he serves as adjunct professor with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, teaching courses in the graduate teacher education program. He manages the Certificate for Excellent Practice in Service-Learning (a partnership between the university and NYLC), and coordinates the Tri-State Community Education license program.

Stan holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Wisconsin. In 2008, he received the Wisconsin Governor's Statewide Service award.

Stan may be reached at spotts@nylc.org.