{"id":14696,"date":"2024-05-24T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/?page_id=14696"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:30:20","slug":"meet-the-principal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/information\/meet-the-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-951113745\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1516683539\" class=\"col medium-4 small-12 large-4\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16741\" style=\"border-radius: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/07\/principal-bkielar.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Kielar\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/07\/principal-bkielar.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/07\/principal-bkielar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/07\/principal-bkielar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Brian Kielar<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:bkielar@kusd.edu\">bkielar@kusd.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Phone:<\/strong> 262-359-2100<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Bachelor&#8217;s degree:<\/strong> Bachelors in History Education from University of Illinois at Chicago<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Master&#8217;s degree:<\/strong> Master of Education from National Louis University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Began career in education:<\/strong> 2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1516683539 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1882288503\" class=\"col medium-8 small-12 large-8\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:#f5f5f5;\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15611\" style=\"border-radius: 7%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/lakeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/principal-love-school.svg\" alt=\"Career highlights\" width=\"50\" \/>\u00a0Career highlights<\/h2>\n<p>Working with LakeView Technology Academy to achieve its Blue Ribbon. Working with Tremper to be the top performing comprehensive high school on the State Report Card for three years straight.<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/lakeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/principal-hobbies.svg\" alt=\"Hobbies\" width=\"50\" \/> Hobbies<\/h2>\n<p>Traveling, Golf, and Cooking with my Family<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/lakeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/principal-subjects.svg\" alt=\"Favorite school subjects\" width=\"50\" \/> Favorite school subjects<\/h2>\n<p>Sociology, Engineering Design, and Economics<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/lakeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/principal-love-school.svg\" alt=\"What I love most about LakeView\" width=\"50\" \/> What I love most about Jeffery<\/h2>\n<p>The culture at Jeffery is amazing, we know how to work hard and have fun. The staff is great at welcoming all new people to Jeffery and showing them the Jeffery way.<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/lakeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/principal-quote-mantra.svg\" alt=\"Favorite quote or mantra\" width=\"50\" \/> Favorite quote or mantra<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.\u201d &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/lakeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/principal-sport-food.svg\" alt=\"Favorite sports team\" width=\"50\" \/> Favorite sports team<\/h2>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-1882288503 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 10px 20px 10px 20px;\n  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n  border-radius: 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13450,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16775,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14696\/revisions\/16775"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/jeffery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}