Show Notes

This is part one of a 4-part series with Jeff Wright, School Superintendent for the Sauk Prairie School district.  In this part we talk about Jeff's background as well as delve into the topic of maintaining good mental health in schools and at home.  Long gone (hopefully) are the stigmatizing days of looking at mental health issues as defects, but instead as challenges that can be healed with empathy and emotional intelligence.  Jeff and I talk about strategies that his school district is using to make our schools safe places that promote learning the 3 R's as well as ways to cope with an ever more complicated world.

Jeff and his family live on a farm near Plain where they enjoy raising chickens and being outdoors all year round.  Before joining the team in Sauk Prairie in 2012, Jeff served as a high school principal in Chicago and was a Social Studies teacher in Rochester, Minnesota.  Jeff grew up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and has degrees from St. Olaf College and Harvard University.