Interview by Fred Hernandez
Dr. Linda Brown was born and initially raised in Texas City on the Gulf Coast of the Lone Star state. After graduating from High School she proceeded to assemble a truly impressive number of degrees, certifications and skills including a Doctorate
of Educational Leadership- Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana (Minor in Technology); Specialist
Degree in Educational Leadership-Chadron State
College, Chadron, Nebraska (Minor in Technology); Masters of Education in Computers-Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Cum Laude); Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education-University of Colorado (with honors). Her imposing computer skills alone are noteworthy; include Claris Works (Macintosh), WordPerfect and Microsoft Office, HyperStudio, Prezi, Power Point, Adobe Premiere, iMovie, Microsoft Movie Maker (Video capture and editing), WebPages production, Robotics programming (various products/programs), MicroWorlds, Visual Basics, and HTML. Dr. Linda Brown has over two dozen honors and presentations.
Her work experience is no less impressive to say the least. She founded and administered a Christian school in the early 1980s, she was a homeschool teacher, elementary teacher, middle school teacher, an instructor in a community college, a director of technology and media, an instructor (two different universities at two different times,) became an elementary principal and director of technology and media, assistant superintendent, a national trainer at Northwest Evaluation Association providing training to trainers. More recently Dr. Linda was National Core Faculty/ Instructor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for ten years. The family moved to Montana and she worked as an Instructor at Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency for five years. From 2006 to 2010 she was the Superintendent of Wyola School District in Wyola, Montana. Being married to a U.S. Military career officer explains her transfers to different parts of the country. In 2010,
they were back in Nebraska where she worked as Asst. Professor at Chadron State College until 2014 when she became Associate Professor in the same college until January 2023.
In addition to all her academic achievements and extensive hands-on experience, Linda is a mother who home schooled six children, one of them with special needs. There is virtually no aspect of a child’s educational needs from the basics to the more complex, that is not covered under the training, education and practical experience of Dr. Linda Brown. Academically speaking, her credentials are impeccable, her vast hands-on experience difficult to match and she feels she could be a real asset to the local school district, especially with her extensive knowledge of curriculum and Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) test data usage which will be gainfully applied to improve students’ performance. Linda invites you all to her website for more details and information: https://sites.google.com/view/dr-linda-brown-custer-school.
Linda Brown is a write-in candidate. You are also invited to a Meet and Greet at Sugarlump on the corner of Main Street and 2nd Street in downtown Westcliffe on Tuesday, October 17th from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Come and meet Linda, get to know her. We wish her all the best in her campaign for the school board.