The Selmaville Grade School Board has hired a new Superintendent to replace the retiring Robin Brooks.
David Lund will be coming from Champaign where he has been Principal of a magnet program for students from a refugee resettlement program at the Cunningham Children’s Home. He’s been involved in a management position in Illinois school districts since 2004 including as Dean of Students, Assistant Principal and Principal and eventually as director over all Alternative Schools in the Regional Office of Education in the Rockford area.
Lund moved to the Champaign schools in 2017 where he served as Director of Facilities and operations for two years before moving back into a principal’s position before moving to Cunningham Children’s Home in December 2020. He has also been a speaker and consultant. Lund earned a Masters of Education and Masters of Business Administration degrees after growing up in the farming community around Modesto, California.
Lund says he can’t believe he made it through the first round of interviews for the Selmaville job and is still tickled and super excited. He says Robin Brooks has done an amazing job and wants to live within in the vision of what he did.
“What does the board want? What does the community and students want in the building and strategic plan out of that process. From that standpoint we want to make sure we are hitting our targets and gaining traction so we can go back and celebrate what we have accomplished.”
Lund says he will be very involved with the teachers and students.
“I’m a very much collaborative person. I always like to be the person in the hallway during classroom periods, make sure we are out at the busses and in the places where students are and that is where you are going to capture something others may not see. Maybe a student is struggling that day and I make eye contact with that student and sure enough that student just wanted to talk to me about what is going on in the world or the soccer or basketball games going on. And my five minutes may of just made that students day.”
Lund says as far as the staff is concerned, it’s not about what Dave wants but what he can do to help the teacher’s reach their goals.
Lund is married, has two step sons, age 8 and 9, and a baby girl. Lund begins his new job on July 1st following Brooks retirement.
