District 214 makes 4 administrative appointments

The Township High School District 214 Board of Education recently approved several administrative appointments.

• Mary Redding, assistant principal at Conyers Learning Academy in Community Consolidated School District 15, will assume the position of assistant principal for student services at Buffalo Grove High School. She began her educational career as a special-education teacher in 1984. Since that time she has taught at several schools, including NSSEO Miner School in Arlington Heights and in District 15. She has served in her current position since 2006. She received her bachelor's and master's degree in special education from Northern Illinois University and Northeastern Illinois University, respectively.

• Glenn Simon, division chair for social studies, foreign language, and fine arts at Zion-Benton Township High School, will be the social studies and foreign language division head at Elk Grove High School. He has served in his current position since 2008. Additionally, he has been an adjunct professor in secondary education at National-Louis University since 2007 and a social science teacher at Maine East since 2001. Simon has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Illinois, a juris doctorate and a master's degree in education and social policy from Northwestern University, and a master's degree in educational leadership from Roosevelt University.

• Jarred Maddox, interim English/fine arts division head at Elk Grove High School, has been appointed permanently as the English/Fine arts division head. He has been Elk Grove's interim English and fine arts division head since the start of the current school year. Before that he taught English at Elk Grove for six years. He received his bachelor's degree in education from Indiana University and a master's in educational leadership from National-Louis University.

• Jovan Lazarevic, math and science division head at Prospect High School, will assume the role of assistant principal for career, technical, and physical education at Prospect, which

is a new school position. Lazarevic has served in his present position since 2007. His education career began 10 years earlier as a teacher at Chicago's St. Rita High School. He also taught at Franklin Middle School in Wheaton and then in 2001 at Lockport High School. He assumed the position of assistant principal and dean at Morton West High School in Berwyn in 2003 and three years later division chair of science/applied tech/family and consumer science. He has a bachelor's degree in biology from Elmhurst College and a master's degree in education from National-Louis University.

Redding and Simon will succeed Trisha Dean and Diane Oppliger, respectively, when they retire at the end of the school year. All positions are effective July 1.