Dr. Kurt Schuett attended Culver-Stockton College from 1993-1997, graduating summa cum laude and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with Secondary Education. While at Culver-Stockton, Schuett played baseball and was an active participant in Greek life, serving as the vice president and alumni chair of Lambda Chi Alpha, along with serving as an interfraternity council representative. During Schuett’s tenure at Culver-Stockton, he also served as a teacher’s assistant to Professor Richard Holmes and worked as a writing-and-learning center tutor in the Carl Johann Memorial Library. While at C-SC, Schuett was awarded the Myron F. Johnson Award, the Shannon Hall Award, the Lambda Chi Alpha Highest GPA Award, and the Guy Cooper Poetry Award. He earned a master’s of education degree in 2009 and a doctorate of education in 2021. Schuett was also inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success at Concordia University Chicago in 2020. Dr. Schuett began his teaching career at Clark County R-I High School in Kahoka, MO, where he taught a variety of language arts classes, in addition to German. While working at Clark County, Schuett also coached softball, baseball, basketball, and track. He eventually moved back to the Chicagoland area, where he has been teaching English at East Leyden High School since 2000. Dr. Schuett also teaches AP Research, which is part of the College Board’s AP Capstone Program, in addition to serving as an adjunct professor at Concordia University Chicago. During Schuett’s time at Leyden, he has coached girls basketball and softball, serving as the head varsity softball coach since 2005. His softball program has set both school and state records, along with winning a variety of conference and post-season championships. But what Schuett is most proud of is the fact that sixty of his former student-athletes have gone on to play college softball while earning their degrees, and seven of them began their collegiate journeys at Culver-Stockton College. Some of the highlights Schuett has experienced as an educator and coach include winning the Illinois Coaching Association’s COTY (Coach of the Year) award for softball in 2024, setting a school record for most wins by any male/female sport in a single season, and having his 2012 squad be nationally recognized as an ESPN Fab 50 Girls Softball Team. In addition to his love for coaching, Schuett has published short stories and poetry widely. He was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in literature for one of his short works of fiction. Schuett also penned the dystopian novel Insurgency (Bad Day Books, 2014), as well as the academic book Beyond Digital Distraction: Educating Today’s Cyber Student (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
