Biography
of
Stephen Kingery

Stephen Kingery received his BSED from Ohio University and MSED from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He began his teaching career in 1968 in the Rock Hill Local Schools in Lawrence County, Ohio.  After two years, he moved to the Ironton City Schools and spent the next thirty-three years as a teacher, elementary principal, assistant superintendent and finally as superintendent.  He retired from public education in Ohio June 2003.  In October of 2003 he began service to the Southwestern Community Action Council in Huntington, West Virginia as the Director of the Child and Family Development Program.  Stephen is currently serving the Mason County Schools in West Virginia as an elementary principal and is an instructor for the University of Phoenix Online. 

During his tenure with the Ironton City Schools, Stephen presented seminars and workshops to teachers, parents, community groups and school administrators in Ohio and nationally.  He has presented seminars on grant writing, leadership skills development, Total Quality Management, Baldrige Criteria for Excellence in Education, conflict management, effective communication, team building, classroom management and much more.

During his service to the students and the community of the Ironton City Schools, Stephen developed his philosophy of classroom management.  Over the years Stephen learned the best way to establish an environment that is conducive to learning.  This learning environment must contain one key element; there must be mutual respect among students, teachers and parents.  He has many anecdotes, ideas, and most important, solutions to classroom and school-wide discipline that he shares with his workshop participants.

As a certified trainer for the Center for Teacher Effectiveness, Stephen’s warm personality and wealth of experience help him deliver practical, proven and research-based strategies to his audiences in the Time to Teach seminars and workshops.  He has a way to use humor and passion to help participants learn the tools that they can use immediately upon their return to the classroom.