District Vision

To be a school district where all children experience success and exhibit excellence.

Vision of the Pupil Services Department

The Pupil Services Department will become known as a provider of excellent core curriculum and instructional support services for students and staff.

Mission of the Pupil Services Department

The Pupil Services Team will build the capacity of our staff to deliver curriculum, instruction and support services that ensure students with unique learning needs achieve district performance targets.

About Dr. Kurt Schneider

Dr. Schneider is the Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Services for District 181. He also serves as adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching educational equity and social justice courses within the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department.  Previously, he served as Director of Student Services; in Stoughton, Wisconsin, was a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison instructing pre-service undergraduate/graduate special education methods courses, and was a project assistant collaborating with urban high schools on inclusive service delivery restructuring efforts.  Dr. Schneider has also served as a high school special education teacher (inclusion facilitator). 

Career highlights include:

• National Center on Educational Outcomes (2012) - National leadership recognition for improved district-wide achievement results for all students through standards-based instruction and integrated comprehensive services
• Co-Author, Bilingual Students within Integrated Comprehensive Services: Collaborative Strategies, in Co-teaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections and Recommendations (2012)
• Featured Speaker in, You're Going to Love this Kid: A Professional Development Package for Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom DVD (2011)
• ASCD Leadership Council Member (2011)
  
• ASCD Legislative Institutes for Legislative Advocacy, Washington, D.C., (2010-2012)
• ASCD Emerging Leader (2009)
  
• ASCD Wisconsin Board Member (2008-present)
• Wisconsin State Superintendent's Educational Data Advisory Committee Member (2008-2011)
• Harvard Graduate School of Education Summer Institutes - Critical Special Education Issues and Closing the Achievement Gap (2008, 2010)
  
• Frequent Local, State, and National Presenter and Consultant