The top administrator with the Greene County School District is stepping down at the end of this month.

Tim Christensen has spent the last 15 years as the superintendent of the former Jefferson-Scranton School District and now the Greene County School District. He taught junior/high school social studies for the first five years of his 32 year educational career in Bremer, Nebraska, before becoming the junior/high school principal and activities director at Lenox School District for three years. From there, Christensen went on to be the middle/high school principal at Panorama and then earned his superintendent certification and spent the next five years as superintendent at Harris Lake Park, before coming to Jefferson. 

Over his 15 years as superintendent with J-S and Greene County, Christensen has been through reorganization with the former East Greene School District and saw a multi-million dollar bond referendum pass for a new high school and career academy. He talks about how he’s tried to follow a consistent philosophy for the past 15 years.

“I think it’s more of a philosophy of life: I want everybody that I, I guess come into contact with, to hopefully be better off after they have left our exchange. To have a positive interaction with somebody, I think that’s been my philosophy. Not always successful but I think successful far more than unsuccessful.” 

Christensen will be taking on a new role as with the transition student support services for eighth graders at Fort Dodge Middle School. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio he is looking forward to this next step.

“Very excited about what I would say working with kids again. That’s the one thing about being a superintendent, you think you’re going to impact more kids in particular, but the layers you get up, you may impact more but you don’t have as much contact with them. So (I’m) looking forward to have contact with students on a daily basis.”   

The Greene County School Board hired Brett Abbotts to be the new superintendent and will start July 1st.