Patricia Deklotz is Superintendent for the Kettle Moraine School District, a high performing K-12 district serving 4,200 students located in southeastern Wisconsin. She was selected as Wisconsin’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year by the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators. Taking a non-traditional route, Dr. Deklotz worked 20 years in financial software development and with non-profit organizations prior to becoming a teacher in 1996. Under her leadership, the Kettle Moraine School District has embraced the School Board’s charge to transform schools to better and more efficiently meet the needs of all students. The district has created three instrumentality charter high schools, one multiage project-based elementary charter school, and a project-based, interdisciplinary multiage middle school house. These learning environments serve to inform the district’s work in competency-based education.