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Nicolet Offical Lisa Elliott Gets Greenfield Superintendent Job

Elliott, director of curriculum and Instruction of the Nicolet School District, will take over the helm of south suburban district on July 1.

Lisa Elliot, who has been the director of curriculum and instruction of the Nicolet School District for the last two years, has been named the new superintendent of the Greenfield School District.

Elliott, a former principal at Maple Grove Elementary School in Greenfield who worked for that district for 20 years, was introduced as the district’s new superintendent at a School Board meeting Monday.

Elliott beat out Lynette Zimmer, who has been the superintendent of Prairie Grove Consolidated School District 46 in Crystal Lake, IL, since 2010.

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Her selection concludes a three-month process that began .

Nearly 20 applicants expressed interest in the opening, and of the six candidates brought in for interviews, only Elliott did not have previous experience as a superintendent.

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Elliott also has been an adjunct lecturer in the Administrative Leadership Program at Alverno College since 2004. She received a bachelor’s degree at Carroll College in 1990 and her master's egree from Alverno in 2002. She began work on her doctorate at Cardinal Stritch University last June.

Elliott’s first official day will be July 1.


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