STEVEN SCHRADE

Mr. Schrade spent nearly 40 years in education. He began his career in academia began in 1970, just after graduating from Union College, when he spent three months substitute teaching in the Duanesburg Central School District. He then joined the Navy, and was on active duty for two years before taking a job in 1973 teaching social studies and English at Schoharie Central’s middle-high school.

In 1974, he went back to Duanesburg Central, where he was an assistant principal, a social studies teacher, and a coach of basketball and soccer at the middle-high school. He left Duanesburg Central in 1986, and took a job as high school principal in Dolgeville until 1990.

He came to Berne-Knox-Westerlo soon after, where he served as principal and superintendent.