 Matthew J. Palcer, assistant principal at Jane Addams, will be the new principal of Pleasant Hill School, effective July 1, 2008. During the 2007-08 school year, Pleasant Hill has had interim principals.
Palcer has spent his entire professional career in District 15. After graduating from the University of Illinois-Champaign with a B.A. in secondary social studies education, he joined District 15 as a seventh-grade special education program assistant at Walter R. Sundling Junior High. The following year, he joined the staff at Carl Sandburg Junior High, teaching history, English, and writing. From 2003-2005, he was seventh- and eighth-grade student advisor at Sandburg.
He earned a master’s degree in education administration from National-Louis University in 2004 and served both Jane Addams and Pleasant Hill as assistant principal in the 2005-06 school year. For the past two years, he has been assistant principal at Jane Addams.
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