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Early Childhood Resource Specialist, STARnet Regions I & III
Carol Weisheit has a bachelor's degree in child development and a master's degree in child and family relations. Carol is an Early Childhood Resource Specialist with STARnet Regions I & III. Her previous experience includes the following positions: Executive Director of Illinois Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), a statewide organization whose mission is to advocate for abused/neglected children in the court system; teacher/home visitor for the LeRoy Prekindergarten and Parent Education Programs, an Illinois State Board of Education funded initiative; and child care director in Bloomington and Champaign. Carol is a consultant to the National CASA Association as a national curriculum trainer and is a validator for the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Carol teaches at Heartland Community College (main campus in Normal, IL); she focuses on courses in child development, early childhood education, advocacy, and administration. She also consults with agencies, programs, and schools on topics such as transitions in the classroom, literacy, social/emotional development of young children, positive discipline, praise vs. encouragement, effective parenting, talking with your teenager, program management, and building relationships with families through home visiting. She has been married for 27 years to Ralph, Distinguished Professor at ISU, and has a son, Ryan, who is a sophomore at the University of North Florida studying jazz performance.
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