Kit Spring - Keep Kids off the Pathway to Prison

Keep Kids off the Pathway to Prison
Kit Spring

Kit Spring - Convention Speaker Kit works with school districts that want their at risk students to stay out of prison.

Kit works with community groups that want their children to be safe and successful.

“I retired from the public school system and took a job as a teacher in a prison south of town. After a year or two, I became the principal at two prison schools with 500 adult male students. One day a pink school file landed on my desk. I saw Dennis’s name. My heart stopped. I thought, oh no, this can’t be the same person.

“Almost twenty years after he had been a student in my fifth grade class, this young man landed in the prison where I worked, serving a life sentence for the crime of murder.

“Right or wrong, accurate or not, my first thought was that as one of his teachers, I had failed him. Maybe there was something that I should have done or could have done that would have made a difference… Not a day goes by that I don’t wonder about this.” -- Kit Spring

Kit makes people aware of the factors that lead to a pathway to prison. She talks about the high price of recidivism and works on the prevention side of it – helping educators identify those kids who are at risk and suggesting strategies to deal with them.
Kit provides information on the potential risk factors and resiliency factors. She works with teachers to develop ways to counteract the bad behaviors. She raises their awareness of what can put kids at risk. She emphasizes the importance of kindness in dealing with children and how each child needs to feel important and worthwhile.
Kit has a unique set of experiences – as a teacher and administrator in prison schools and 30 years in the public schools teaching a variety of subject areas to several different grade levels.
Her passion is saving kids and helping schools develop programs so that each child has a chance for a successful life. She makes sure others benefit from insights she gained in many years of experience in public and correctional education.