Gerrit Kischner

Gerrit Kischner is an experienced public education leader with more than three decades of service as a teacher, principal, and district-level leader.

Gerrit has led complex schools and systems through periods of growth, change, and recovery, with a consistent focus on fulfilling the promised of public education to support the local community, promote instructional excellence, and ensure organizational stability. Known for building trust across staff, families, and labor partners, Gerrit brings a systems mindset to leadership—aligning teaching and learning, finances, and policy to support student success. His work spans school redesign, student growth, inclusion and belonging, deeper learning, collaborative labor-management structures, teacher evaluation, fiscal stewardship, and leadership development, grounded in the belief that strong public schools are built through collaboration, clarity, and care.