Dustin Hunt

Dustin Hunt

Dustin Hunt is the superintendent of schools in Hot Springs County School District #1 in Thermopolis, Wyoming. He has been implementing the professional learning communities (PLC) framework at all levels of the district from the early childhood program to the boardroom for more than a decade. Dustin began the PLC journey while serving as the Hot Springs County High School principal.

During his nearly two decades of leadership in Thermopolis, both Hot Springs County High School and Thermopolis Middle School have become Model Professional Learning Communities at Work® and consistently produced strong student learning results. In 2018 and 2019, Thermopolis Middle School was a finalist for the prestigious DuFour Award. In 2020, Dustin was named the Wyoming Superintendent of the Year.

Dustin is a member of the Wyoming Association of School Administrators (WASA) and the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).

Dustin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education with endorsements in secondary history and K–12 health and physical education, and he earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Grand Canyon University.

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Presentations by Dustin Hunt

• Creating High-Functioning School Boards through the PLC Framework
• Establishing Organizational Memory, Administrative Longevity, and Growing Your Own
• Moving from a Compliance Organization to a Performance Organization
• Supervision versus Coaching: Making your Evaluation System Interdependent from the Classroom to the Boardroom by Getting Clear on What Is Tight in Your PLC
• Building a Collaborative Culture to Meet the Needs of an Ever-Changing Educational World