David R. Schuler, of Chicago, has been selected to receive the Alumnus Honoris Award to be presented June 13 at this year’s Clintonville High School graduation ceremony.
Schuler has been superintendent of High School District 214, the second-largest high school system in Illinois, since 2005. The district serves more than 12,000 students in six high schools and four alternative programs in Chicago’s northwest suburbs.
Schuler also is president-elect of the American Association of School Administrators, a national organization representing school superintendents from across the United States and Canada. He just finished his term as president of the Suburban School Superintendents Association. He has been an adjunct professor at Carroll University in Waukesha, the University of Illinois at Chicago and North Park University in Chicago. He is vice president of the board of directors for the Wisconsin American Legion Badger Boys State program.
A 1988 graduate of Clintonville High School, Schuler earned his bachelor’s degree from Carroll University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his doctoral research focused on leadership theory and the building of credible relationships between superintendents and their administrative teams.
He began his career as a social studies teacher, athletic coach, activity adviser and director of athletics and activities before becoming a high school principal and then, in 2000, a superintendent.
The Alumnus Honoris award is given to a graduate of Clintonville or Bear Creek high schools who has gone on to have excelled in his chosen field in a national or worldwide level.
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