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Monday, July 14, 2008 9:59 PM CDT
CMS principal to resign, join Normal district
By DAVE FOPAY, Staff Writer
hmeeker@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON — Sandy Wilson, principal of Charleston Middle School for the last five years, plans to take a job as a curriculum director with the Normal school district and will leave Charleston at the end of the month.
Wilson will become the Normal district’s director of secondary education, being in charge of curriculum for grades 6 through 12. She said her new position will let her return to her hometown area and let her achieve a “longtime professional goal.”
“Curriculum instruction is my love,” she said. “It’s what I enjoy the most.”
Charleston Superintendent Jim Littleford said the tentative schedule for hiring Wilson’s replacement calls for that to take place on July 30. The school board is scheduled to vote on Wilson’s resignation at its meeting Wednesday.
“It’s certainly a loss for the Charleston district,” Littleford said.
Wilson became the CMS principal in 2003 after six years as assistant principal of Carl Sandburg and Jefferson Elementary schools, and she taught at Jefferson before becoming an administrator.
Wilson said her family and her husband’s family still live in Bloomington-Normal, and she received her bachelor’s and graduate degrees from Illinois State University in Normal. She said she’s kept in contact with former Charleston Superintendent Gary Niehaus, now superintendent of the Normal district, and learned of the opening there.
She admitted that, with the first day of student attendance for the new school year in Charleston on Aug. 14, the “timing wasn’t the best, for myself included.”
The position in Normal came open around the start of June, and the position had a July 1 start date, but “that wasn’t a possibility” for her, she said.
Littleford said he’s developed a tentative schedule for hiring a new principal for the middle school that includes a special board meeting and vote on July 30.
Wilson said the decision to take the new job was a difficult one because she’s enjoyed her time in the Charleston district and believes it’s been successful.
“It’s an excellent middle school and will be a great position for an incoming principal,” she said. “I’ve been part of its transition and watched it blossom into a very effective middle school.”
Contact Dave Fopay at dfopay@jg-tc.com or 348-5733.
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