About me
Engagement, Energy and Passion are three words that describe Carole. She has served on the INSHAPE Board since 1998 as a member or chair of Secondary, Advocacy, Fitness, Dance and Mini Grant Councils and as INSHAPE President. Carole has served on four different occasions as the Chair of the National Teacher of the Year for AAHPERD (SHAPE America) at elementary, middle school and high school. She also had an opportunity to share her ideas at East China Normal University in Shanghai, with 150 teachers from the 23 providences in China.
Attending Speak OUT Day in Washington DC in February 2024 was impactful! Being a part of the Legislative Summit in 2004 was one of the most significant cherished contributions that Carole has been a part of with the INSHAPE organization. Observing twenty Purdue students interacting with their State Legislators at the State House and preparing them to meet and speak with confidence and passion is priceless! Carole believes that professionalism starts at the student level. Most of her physical education and health preservice teachers were members of Purdue’s Undergraduate Health and Kinesiology Club where Carole served as an advisor.
Carole began her teaching career in 1972 (Title IX) teaching elementary through high school physical education and health at Hamilton High School while coaching women’s Volleyball, Basketball, Gymnastics and Track. She served as Huntington University Women’s Volleyball Coach from 1975-1979 earning state runners up title for small colleges in 1979. Carole spent 15 years teaching in Benton County both at the elementary school for 8 years and then transferring to the high school for 7 years. While at Oxford and Boswell Elementary School, Carole hosted yearly Jump Rope for Heart Events while bringing in the high school student athletes to serve as "Guest Jumpers and Turners." The Benton Jumpers Jump Rope Team was also a product of that era! While teaching at Benton Central, Carole and her colleagues began to shape their high school curriculum into a model that would provide skill and fitness to all secondary students. The students were one of the first schools in Indiana to use Polar Heart Monitors and use portfolios for goal setting and tracking overall fitness improvements.
