Ward 1
Eric Gorman, Policy & Governance Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 802-310-4518 | Email: egorman@bsdvt.org
Ward 2- Integrated Arts Academy
Stephen Carey, Curriculum & Personnel Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 802-863-6290 | Email: scarey@bsdvt.org
Stephen Carey, a forty year resident of the Old North End, is a retired Vermont educator with four decades of teaching experience. He is a 1974 honors graduate of Boston College, and he has pursued his interest in teaching and learning in vast areas of interest ever since. He worked first in Vermont schools as a paraeducator in reading and math, and then as a full-time secondary English teacher at CVU in Hinesburg. Mr. Carey’s interests in art, French language, history and travel have always illuminated his teaching. He holds a degré moyen in French language and civilization from the Université Paris, Sorbonne (1986), and continues to study the arts, history and French in his retirement. Recently Mr. Carey has substitute taught in various Burlington schools where he has had the pleasure of working with Burlington’s fabulous students and teaching staff. He is excited about working for Burlington schools at the Board level where he hopes to have a positive influence on teaching and learning throughout the city.
Ward 3- Sustainability Academy
Liz Curry, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 802-578-5793 | Email: lcurry@bsdvt.org
Ward 4- Flynn
Martine Gulick, Community Engagement Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 802-488-4445 | Email: mgulick@bsdvt.org
Martine is a lifelong educator who has taught in Vermont and overseas and is currently the Director of Library Media Services at Essex High School and Center for Technology Essex. Martine attended public schools in South Burlington and has a BA and MA from the University of Vermont. She was the legislative concerns chair and is the current president-elect of the VT School Library Association.
Martine’s two children attended Burlington schools and are currently employing the skills, compassion and understanding they gained from an excellent public school education. Martine is eager to work with the citizens of Burlington to build schools that achieve equity, foster diversity and strive for academic excellence for all. For years she served on PTOs at CP Smith and Hunt Middle School, was a team parent at BHS and served on the BHS ReEnvision Committee.
Ward 5- Champlain
Mike Fisher, Clerk, Community Engagement Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 802-355-7822 | Email: mbfisher@bsdvt.org
Mike Fisher lives in the South End of Burlington with his wife Rachel and daughters Layla and Zoë, both of whom attend Edmunds Middle School. A native of Connecticut, he and his family moved to Burlington in 2011. He got involved with the Champlain Elementary PTO in 2012. When the board was rebooted in 2014, he was elected Vice President, and then President in 2016. Under his leadership, the PTO grew its active membership, expanded the services it provided to students, families and staff and advocated at the district level. Mike is employed as an IT Manager at the University of Vermont Medical Center, focusing on process engineering and continual service improvement.
Ward 6- Edmunds Middle School & Champlain
Clare Wool, Chair, Finance & Facilities Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 917-912-4333 | Email: cwool@bsdvt.org
Ward 7- Hunt Middle School & CP Smith
Monika Ivancic, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: 802-540-0830 | Email: mivancic@bsdvt.org
My name is Monika Ivancic and I am delighted to be representing my constituents in Ward 7 on the Burlington School Board. I am a parent in the school district and have connections with many different people in this community. I am familiar with several elementary schools within the district, since my husband is a paraprofessional at Champlain, and my daughter has attended Edmunds, SA, and is now in 4th grade at IAA. As an instrument facility manager in the Department of Chemistry at UVM, I interact with students on a daily basis. For over 3 years I have been involved in Sustainability Academy’s PTO, attending meetings, assisting with planning and organizing events, and advocating for our school children. I have also been an instrumental part of SA’s PTO Diversity and Inclusivity team. I believe that a strong education system is of utmost importance to a thriving society. As your representative on the school board, I will work towards strengthening Burlington’s education system.
Ward 8- Edmunds Elementary School
Keith Pillsbury, Finance & Facilities Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: Coming Soon | Email: kpillsbury@bsdvt.org
District Central- Integrated Arts Academy & Sustainability Academy
Jeanie Waltz
Term Ends: 2021
Tel: | Email: jwaltz@bsdvt.org
District East- Edmunds Middle & Elementary Schools
Kathy Olwell, Curriculum & Personnel Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2019
Tel: 802-660-4910 | Email: kolwell@bsdvt.org
I would like to introduce myself, my name is Kathy Olwell and I live in Ward 1. I am the East District School Board Commissioner. I have lived in Burlington for 25 years, first in the New North End after which we moved to Ward 1 in 1999. We moved here from Nuremberg Germany. I was born in Orange NJ and have lived in Stamford,CN; Charlotte and Asheville, NC, Atlanta GA; St.Louis MO, and Boston, MA. as well as Germany and France My husband and I have three sons all of whom went through the Burlington School system and I am recently retired as a social worker. I earned my Masters degree in Social Pedagogy from the Lutheran College of Social Work/Pedagogy in Reutlingen, Germany. In my role as a social worker, I have started programs for children and youth in both Germany and the United States.
In 1993, together with parents and teachers from Hunt Middle School, I founded the New North End Youth Center in the Armory on Gosse Court. I directed this center under the umbrella of King Street Youth Center and then as a program of Sara Holbrook Community Center from 1993-2015. In 1997, I started a small afterschool program at Hunt Middle School to offer mini programming in the arts and music funded by a grant from the Vermont Children’s Trust Fund. Out of this was born the vision of a city-wide afterschool program for which Amy Mellencamp (then the director of Curriculum/Grants for the school district) wrote the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant. This grant funded the Burlington Afterschool/Kids programs that exist today in all nine Burlington Schools. Realizing how important programs are for kids during the long summer months, I together with staff designed and began the Burlington Middle School Summer Program in 1998. This program has grown over the years and now serves 300 middle schoolers from both Burlington and Winooski with 5 weeks of programs which are without cost to the students and their families. I was previously a member of the Burlington School Board from 1994-1997 and served as the Clerk of the board from 1996-1997. I am the treasurer of the board of the Burlington Students Foundation and am still active with Vermont Afterschool.
District North- Flynn, CP Smith, and Hunt Middle School
Mark Barlow, Legislative Liaison
Term Ends: 2019
Tel: 802-549-4433 | Email: mbarlow@bsdvt.org
District South- Champlain
Jeff Wick, Vice Chair, Policy & Governance Committee co-chair
Term Ends: 2019
Tel: 1-917-282-5256 | Email: jwick@bsdvt.org
Student Representatives to the School Board
Isaac Jenemann
Email: jenemani@bsdvt.org
Isaac Jenemann is a junior at Burlington High School. Isaac’s favorite subjects are English and History. Outside of the school day, Isaac is an active member of the BHS Council and also participates in the theater program at the high school. Isaac also enjoys skiing for the Alpine Team and playing tennis. During the summer Isaac enjoys backpacking and swimming down at the lake.
Sabin Hart
Email: harts@bsdvt.org
In October 2017 the School Board received honorable mention from the Vermont School Board Association (VSBA) See more here
