Dr. Kurt A. Schneider is currently the Superintendent of the Northern Suburban Special Education District in Highland Park, Illinois, a metropolitan suburban district of Chicago that provides special education, related services, and other supports to 18 member districts. Previously, he served as Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction and Special Education for the Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District, Illinois; part-time adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching courses within the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education Departments; and co-developed and facilitated the National Integrated Comprehensive Systems Institute. In 2012, while a Co-administrator of the Teaching and Learning department for the Stoughton Area School District in Wisconsin, he was nationally recognized by both the National Center for Educational Outcomes and the TASH organizations for his work around systems change and raising of achievement of all students, through integrated comprehensive system approaches. In 2011 for his work in curriculum and instruction, he was elected to the national ASCD Leadership Council, and in 2009 was recognized by them as an Emerging Leader. Dr. Schneider presently serves as a national TASH board member and served as a 2013 Local Host Committee co-chair for their national conference held in Chicago. His work to raise the achievement of all learners has been repeatedly presented at national, state, and local levels. In addition to his general education training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, he has undergraduate and masters degrees in Special Education; superintendent, curriculum/instruction, principal, and special education administrative licenses; and has earned multiple certificates from the Harvard Graduate School of Education for studying the Achievement/Opportunity Gap and Critical Issues in Urban Special Education. Dr. Schneider also served as an inclusion facilitator/teacher at Madison East High School, for the Madison Metropolitan School District, and served in a similar capacity in Alexandria, Egypt as a Volunteer Executive with the International Executive Service Corps. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.