Plainfield Principals Move to Administrative Posts

Submitted by Plainfield School District 202

PLAINFIELD, IL — Two veteran District 202 elementary principals will take over key district-wide elementary administrative posts next year.

Eagle Pointe Elementary Principal Scott Fink will be the new Director for Elementary Administration and Personnel. He will replace current director Mark Heiss

Freedom Elementary Principal Dr. Tammy Sroczynski will be the new Director for Elementary Curriculum and Instruction, replacing Joan Woolwine in that role. Both Heiss and Woolwine are retiring in June 2016.

The District 202 Board of Education approved the new assignments at its Dec. 14 regular meeting.

“Dr. Sroczynski and Mr. Fink are both excellent professional educators with significant administrative experience. Their skills and background will be very important as they take over for two strong elementary leaders in Mr. Heiss and Mrs. Woolwine,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lane Abrell.

Sroczynski has worked her entire 13-year education career in District 202. She started in 2003 as an information literacy teacher splitting time between Lincoln and Eagle Pointe elementary schools, and then continued at Lincoln as a third grade teacher and later as a fourth grade teacher in 2004.

She worked as a differentiation specialist at Lincoln from 2006-10 and served as interim assistant principal at Eagle Pointe in 2009.

Sroczynski served as assistant principal at Lincoln Elementary in 2010-11, and special education administrator there in 2011-12. She then served as assistant principal at Charles Reed Elementary in 2011-12 and was named Freedom’s principal in 2013.

Fink started his education career in 1993, serving six years as a high school biology teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He served as a graduate assistant for one year at Northern Illinois University before serving two years from 2001-2003 as Director of Learning/Dean the first year, and then K-8 principal in Taft District 90 in Lockport.

Fink came to District 202 in 2003, serving three years as assistant principal at Drauden Point Middle School before being named Eagle Pointe’s principal in 2006. He is working toward his doctorate.