Members of the Decatur Change Effort

Kurt B. Richter
Ed.D. Candidate in IST program
Graduate Assistant

Kurt was born in California, raised in Minnesota, and lived for 24 years in Alaska. He worked with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he was a classroom teacher in grades 3-6 and an instructor in the Alaskan Leadership Academy. Kurt retired from classroom teaching in 1997. After working as a finish carpenter and a University Supervisor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he moved "Outside" to Bloomington where he began working towards his doctorate in education. He recently worked as a research assistant with Dr. Charles Reigeluth and as a co-facilitator of the Decatur "Journey Toward Excelence."

Education:

• Ed.D. Doctoral Candidate in IST, Indiana University Bloomington, 1998-Present
• M.Ed. University of Alaska Fairbanks, August 1981.
• B.S. University of Minnesota Minneapolis, December, 1973

His website is located at http://php.indiana.edu/~kurichte/ and he is the Webmaster for this website.

You can write to Kurt by clicking here