Bolingbrook HS, Lukancic Get New Assistant Principals

Lukancic Assistant Principal Prince Lowe (left) and Bolingbrook High School Assistant Principal Nicholas Detman. Credit: Valley View School District

Two new administrators were announced at Monday night’s Valley View Boar of Education meeting.

Bolingbrook High School Department Chair of Deans Nicholas Detman has been named assistant principal at Bolingbrook High School, effective immediately.

He succeeds Teno Geritano, who left the district.

Detman has been with Valley View School District 365U since August 2002, initially serving as a special education instructor at Romeoville High School for four years and dean of students at BHS for nearly four years. He became department chair of deans in February 2010.

A graduate of Monmouth College with a bachelor of arts in special education and elementary education, he also holds a masters of school improvement and leadership degree from Olivet Nazarene University.

Meanwhile, a veteran teacher and administrator is new Lukancic Middle School assistant principal.

Prince Lowe, who has seven years of teaching experience and four years of administrative/leadership experience, will start immediately, replacing Jacob Buck, who took a principal position in another district.

Lowe comes to Lukancic from Whitney Young Magnet High School, where he served as resident principal and principal-in-training and from Thornridge High School, where he taught algebra I, algebra II and college algebra with trigonometry and also served as student activities director from 2008 to 2013. Prior to that he was a high school math teacher in the Chicago Public Schools system for two years.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education, Lowe also holds a master of arts degree in educational administration from Governors State University.

He is a former adjunct professor at South Suburban College and was a curriculum and instruction specialist and assistant school director of Teach for America, a national teaching service organization.