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Kay T. Worner, Ph.DAssociate Professor, Education Leadership Education
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BiographyKay Worner was born in St. Charles, Illinois, but spent 34 years in Des Moines, Iowa, before moving to Minnesota. She attended Grand View Lutheran Community College then lived in Germany for two years before graduating from Drake University with a BSE in Education, Secondary Social Science in 1972. She received her MSE in Special Education from Drake University in 1975. She taught special education in junior high and high school for seven years in the Des Moines area. She earned her secondary and elementary school principal license, superintendent license, and her Specialist Degree from Iowa State University in the early 1980’s. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Administration in 1986, also from Iowa State. In additional to her teaching experiences in Iowa, Kay served as a special education coordinator and a Director of Curriculum and Staff Development. Kay and her family moved to Minnesota in 1986 when she became an elementary principal in the White Bear Lake School District. In 1993, Kay became Assistant Superintendent for PreK-12 Instruction in the White Bear Lake Schools. In 1997 she accepted the superintendent position in a central Minnesota suburban school district, Sartell-St. Stephen. Dr. Worner received the Minnesota Association of School Administrators Kay E. Jacobs Outstanding Leadership Award in 1996 and the Minnesota Superintendent of the Year Award in 2004. During her principal and superintendent career, she was an adjunct faculty member in Teacher Education at the University of St. Thomas for four years and an adjunct faculty member at St. Cloud State University in Educational Administration for eight years. She left the superintendency in 2005 to become Assistant Professor in Educational Administration and Leadership at St. Cloud State University where she still works today. Kay and her husband, Roger, have six children and sixteen grandchildren. They love Northern Minnesota lake country, fishing, reading, and time spent with their family. Courses TaughtEDAD 507 Community Education Field Experience EDAD 601 Intro. To Educational Leadership EDAD 605 K-12 Principal EDAD 608 Superintendency EDAD 610 Administrative Leadership EDAD 611 Portfolio Review EDAD 620 School Law EDAD 630 Introduction to Personnel EDAD 640 Intro. to School Finance EDAD 642/645 Auxiliary Functions EDAD 650 Introduction to Community Relations EDAD 652 School and Community Relations EDAD 657 Educational Policy EDAD 678 Field Experience: Superintendent EDAD 804 Visioning & the Change Process |
