CSD Congratulates Hazelwood School District Superintendent
Dr. Chris Wright named 2009 Missouri Superintendent of the Year
The Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis, Inc. (CSD) congratulates Hazelwood School District Superintendent Dr. Chris Wright. The Missouri Association of School Administrators (MASA) has named Wright the recipient of the 2009 Missouri Superintendent of the Year award.
As the recipient of the award, Wright will represent Missouri in the national superintendent of the year program conducted by the American Association of School Administrators.
Hazelwood School District (HSD) hired Wright in 2002. As superintendent, she has initiated “Hazelwood 1st’, a community engagement campaign that involved more than 1,000 community members in the development of a ten-year, three-phase facility improvement plan. She also led efforts to implement full-day kindergarten, a new district-wide reading and writing program, and a new math and science curriculum. She has also developed several partnerships with area universities to provide programs and training for students and staff. Wright was instrumental in bringing the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) pre-engineering program to HSD. The HSD high schools represent three of only four high schools in the state piloting the PLTW biomedical program.
Wright has been in public education for 32 years. She is past president of MASA and past chair of the Cooperating School Districts and has also served as an administrator in the Ritenour and Northwest R-1 school districts. For seven years, she was superintendent of the Riverview Gardens School District.
