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- FOREST LEAVES &emdash; May 18, 2005
- District 90 hires curriculum chief
- BY CHRIS LAFORTUNE
- STAFF WRITER
- River Forest District 90 has hired Lake Bluff elementary school principal Bonnie Boyer as its new director of teaching and learning.
- The School Board approved Boyer's hiring in a 6-0 vote Monday. Trustee Ron Atkins was not in attendance.
- The teaching and learning director completes state and federal grants, coordinates staff development and testing programs, reviews the district's curriculum and develops summer school classes.
- Boyer will start with the district July 1 at a base annual salary of $114,595. She will fill a position that has been vacant for the last year, Superintendent Marlene Kamm said Monday.
- Judy Lipschutz worked in the director's position, but not full-time, for four years before retiring last year.
- "This person needed to be full-time to coordinate work in all the buildings and to work with the teaching staff," Kamm said of Boyer's hiring.
- Boyer brings experience from both Lake Bluff and Barrington to the director's position, Kamm said, and was the best qualified candidate for the job.
- Boyer has been the principal of East School in Lake Bluff District 65, a kindergarten through second-grade school, for the past four years. She previously worked for 14 years with Barrington School District 220, first as a speech pathologist and then as principal, district early childhood coordinator and district speech and language program supervisor.
- Boyer has been in education for more than 25 years, she said, starting her career in New York state.
- "With everything that I've done, I really wanted to work at the district level, kind of on the big picture, to touch all aspects of the system," Boyer said Monday.
- Coming to District 90, the Buffalo Grove resident said she would look at the district's programs to see what is working well. District 90 already is high achieving, Boyer said.
- "It's just raising the bar and going to the next
level, but starting where people are," she said.
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