LFHS Principal Promoted to Assistant Superintendent

Come July, students at Lake Forest High School will no longer be able to call their school “Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood.”

That’s because school principal Barry Rodgers will be promoted at that time to the role of Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, Technology and Assessment K-12 for Lake Forest School District 67, superintendent Michael V. Simeck announced Friday.

Rodgers, who has been principal at LFHS for the last two years, will fill the role vacated by Lauren Fagel, who is leaving for the principal post at Glenbrook South High School.

“I look forward to working with the outstanding faculty, staff, parents, Board of Education, and community members across both districts,” Rodgers said. “By working together we will ensure incredible opportunities for students to learn and to grow. It is with a great sense of gratitude and responsibility that I accept this new assignment.”

Before coming to LFHS, Rodgers served as principal of Northside College Prep High School when the school gained distinction for innovative programming and community collaboration.

In an email announcing the promotion, Simeck said Rodgers is “committed to seeing through the work that has already begun” at Lake Forest High School.

“(He) is a great match for District 67’s recent Mission/Vision initiative that places emphasis on re imagining schools, utilizing the community as a classroom and enhancing social-emotional student growth.”