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The replacement for outgoing athletic director Duane Peterson was named during the Jan. 11 Dunlap Board of Education meeting.
The board approved the hiring of Greg Crider for the position, effective for the 2012-13 school year.
Crider, the current principal at Morton Junior High School, is a 1992 graduate of Dunlap High School.
“I would say the opportunity for myself to go back home, being originally from Dunlap and having family in the area, was a huge draw,” Crider said. “The unique position of district-wide athletic director intrigued me a lot.
“It’s a thrill to be able to go back to Dunlap.”
He graduated from Eureka College in 1996 with a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education with middle school endorsements in language arts and social science.
After graduating, he was hired at Tremont School district, where he taught math, history and science at the junior high level, as well as coached football, baseball, basketball and volleyball.
He started his administrative career at Illini Bluffs High School/Middle School, where he was the district activities director and middle school principal.
Crider said this was his first time being a director, but that he works hand-in-hand with the athletic director at MJHS in many things.
Before being the principal at MJHS for six years, he received his master’s degree in educational administration from Bradley University in 2005.
He also earned a specialist degree in educational leadership from Western Illinois University in 2011.
While Peterson is also the girls track and field coach, Crider said there is currently no plans for him to coach a sport.
He added that the Morton Board of Education will start looking for his replacement around mid-to-late February, after finding a new principal for the high school.
Also hired at the board meeting was Ali Bond, who will be the director of student services for the district starting next school year.
Bond graduated from Bradley University with a bachelor’s in elementary education in 1993 and obtained a master’s degree in special education in 1994.
She began teaching at Garfield School in Peoria in 1994, where she taught for seven years.
After getting her certification in educational administration from Bradley in 2001, she became the special education coordinator in District No. 150 for three years before becoming the director of special services for Dunlap, Brimfield and Elmwood for a year.
Currently, she is the principal at Ridgeview Elementary, where she has been for seven years.
The replacement for outgoing athletic director Duane Peterson was named during the Jan. 11 Dunlap Board of Education meeting.
The board approved the hiring of Greg Crider for the position, effective for the 2012-13 school year.
Crider, the current principal at Morton Junior High School, is a 1992 graduate of Dunlap High School.
“I would say the opportunity for myself to go back home, being originally from Dunlap and having family in the area, was a huge draw,” Crider said. “The unique position of district-wide athletic director intrigued me a lot.
“It’s a thrill to be able to go back to Dunlap.”
He graduated from Eureka College in 1996 with a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education with middle school endorsements in language arts and social science.
After graduating, he was hired at Tremont School district, where he taught math, history and science at the junior high level, as well as coached football, baseball, basketball and volleyball.
He started his administrative career at Illini Bluffs High School/Middle School, where he was the district activities director and middle school principal.
Crider said this was his first time being a director, but that he works hand-in-hand with the athletic director at MJHS in many things.
Before being the principal at MJHS for six years, he received his master’s degree in educational administration from Bradley University in 2005.
He also earned a specialist degree in educational leadership from Western Illinois University in 2011.
While Peterson is also the girls track and field coach, Crider said there is currently no plans for him to coach a sport.
He added that the Morton Board of Education will start looking for his replacement around mid-to-late February, after finding a new principal for the high school.
Also hired at the board meeting was Ali Bond, who will be the director of student services for the district starting next school year.
Bond graduated from Bradley University with a bachelor’s in elementary education in 1993 and obtained a master’s degree in special education in 1994.
She began teaching at Garfield School in Peoria in 1994, where she taught for seven years.
After getting her certification in educational administration from Bradley in 2001, she became the special education coordinator in District No. 150 for three years before becoming the director of special services for Dunlap, Brimfield and Elmwood for a year.
Currently, she is the principal at Ridgeview Elementary, where she has been for seven years.
In other news, the board:
• Heard a presentation about the new common core standards.
The standards, which will go into effect in August 2013, take the place of the Illinois Learning Standards that was approved in 1997.
“We believe the new common core standards are of greater rigor and are more in line with higher order thinking and 21st century learning,” Superintendent Dr. Jay Marino said.
Various groups throughout the district have been meeting to become familiar with the standards, figuring out the gap between the old and new standards and building maps to reach the common core standards.
After implementing the standards, an assessment will be done starting in fall 2014.
The two required parts of the assessment, performance-based and end-of-year, will be combined to track student’s progress throughout the years.
• Approved the consent agenda, which consisted of approval of minutes, approval of the 2012-13 school calendar and approval of regulatory basis engagement agreement with Gorenz and Associates Ltd.
The school calendar that was approved has students starting Aug. 22, five days later than this year.
Meanwhile, Marino said the agreement with Gorenz and Associates Ltd. is for the company to audit the district finances.
• Approved bus bids for four new busses for the district.
Three of the busses, all of which are 83-passenger busses, came from Midwest Bus Sales, while the final bus, a handicap-accessible 54-passenger bus, came from Midwest Transit.
The bids totaled $439,878 altogether, and included the trade of three older buses.
• Heard the second quarter financial report.
The report stated that, while revenue is down from past years, the district should still break even if 100 percent of the expenses are not spent.
In addition, interim director of finance John Managers said it is possible the state may not pay its last two payments this year, but may be paid during the 2012-13 school year.
Currently, the state owes the district $11.7 million.
The next board meeting will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 8.
