{"id":66,"date":"2011-08-10T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocket.kusd.edu\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:59:51","slug":"principal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/information\/principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-601339952\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-493099268\" 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-14304\" style=\"border-radius: 7%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2026\/06\/principal-jkaufman.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Kaufmann\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Joel Kaufmann<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:jkaufman@kusd.edu\">jkaufman@kusd.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Phone:<\/strong> 262-359-2488<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Bachelor&#8217;s degree:<\/strong> B.S. in Applied Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>Master&#8217;s degree:<\/strong> Masters in Applied Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota &amp; a Masters in Administrative Leadership from Concordia &#8211; Mequon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Began career in education:<\/strong> 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-493099268 > .col-inner {\n  margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-564208016\" 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\" 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>Mahone Middle School Teacher of the Year &#8211; 2004<\/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>Cheering on Minnesota sports teams, completing home improvement projects, spending time 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>Math, Physical Education, Science<\/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 Pleasant Prairie<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Kasserian Ingera &#8211; Swahili for &#8220;And how are the children?&#8221;<\/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>Minnesota Gophers<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-564208016 > .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":13485,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17681,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/17681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/pleasantprairie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}