The Stern Center for Language and Learning announced today that Carol Ode will join its Board of Directors in September. Carol is serving her first term in the Vermont Legislature as State Representative of Chittenden 6-1, comprising Burlington’s far New North End. She has been active in politics for more than thirty years, fundraising and advising local and statewide political leaders and candidates on educational issues. She is a graduate of Emerge Vermont.
She is a past member and chair of the Vermont State Board of Education and the Burlington Board of School Commissioners and was as elected by Grand Isle and Chittenden Counties to the Vermont School Boards Association board. She attended National Association of State Boards of Education meetings and lobbied on education issues as a state board member when attending those meetings in Washington, DC.
She was elected by Chittenden County attorneys to the Vermont Bar Foundation board, and afterward was a consultant to both the Vermont Bar Foundation and the Access to Justice Coalition. She served the Vermont Bar Association on their Public Education Committee and was a Women’s Section Liaison to the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women.
She served on the University of Vermont Alumni Council and the Trustee’s Academic and Student Programs Committee. She served the City of Burlington on its Waterfront Board, served on a Community Development Block Grant committee, and participates in her Neighborhood Planning Assembly. She has volunteered for United Way, Lyric Theatre, and the Flynn Theatre. She acted in a Lyric Theatre production and has sung with school and community choruses, even singing with a choir for Pope Paul VI. She is a founder, past president and current board member of the Burlington Students Foundation and served on the Lund Family Center board.
She was Legislative Coordinator for the DRM Government and Public Affairs Group in the 2011-2012 Biennium, analyzing the activities of the legislature.
She is a Cornell Law School graduate and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Vermont. She received the YWCA Susan B. Anthony Award for Public Service in 2000. She is married to Paul Ode. They have four children and two grandchildren.
The Stern Center for Language and Learning is a nonprofit educational resource in Williston, VT, dedicated to enriching the lives of learners because all great minds don’t think alike. For 35 years we have worked with children and adults to help them reach their academic, social and professional goals. We provide research-based learning evaluations and customized instruction, including those with learning disabilities, dyslexia, language disorders, social learning challenges, autism, attention deficit disorders and learning differences. We design and deliver customized professional learning programs and system development using current research and trends in education. Through the Cynthia K. Hoehl Institute, we work with schools and individual educators in early literacy, oral language, reading, written language, social cognition, executive functioning and math. Scholarships are available. More information may be found at www.sterncenter.org.