Bolingbrook Schools Get New Assistant Principals

Submitted by Valley View School District 365U

Photo: From left, Christine Ruddy and Susan Farmer

Two new assistant principals will take their positions at Bolingbrook High School and Pioneer Elementary School for the 2016-17 school year following approval Monday night by the Board of Education.

Veteran VVSD educator Susan Farmer will assume her new role as Assistant Principal at Pioneer Elementary School, while Bolingbrook High School Assistant Principal of School Improvement Christine Ruddy will become Assistant Principal for Curriculum and Instruction at BHS.

Farmer, who is a product of the VVSD school system having graduated from Romeoville High School after attending R.C. Hill and West View (now Martinez), has served as an ESL teacher at Brooks Middle School for the past five years. Prior to that she was a 3rd grade bilingual teacher at Jonas Salk Elementary School for two years, an ESL social studies teacher for three years at Lukancic Middle School and an ESL social studies teacher at Brooks for two years.

A graduate of Northern Illinois University, she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in business administration and a Masters in literacy education from NIU. She also holds a Masters in educational leadership from Concordia University.

During Farmer’s career with VVSD, she has worked on numerous committees at the district level and assisted with development of VVSD’s ESL Common Core Curriculum Standards.

Ruddy has been in her current position at BHS for two years while also serving as Director of Phoenix Experience. Prior to that she was the BHS Guidance Department Chair for seven years.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Masters in guidance counseling from Lewis University.

Prior to coming to BHS, Ruddy was an attendance caseworker for the Education Service Network in Morris for nearly five years and a Romeoville police officer for five years.