Cheryl Troyer
Dr. Cheryl Troyer has been affiliated with CEC since 2007 as a coach and presenter for the Leadership Coaching Program. In July 2010 she accepted an expanded role to co-direct the program with Dr. Jane Gard. Prior to that, she served for two years as Co-Director of Teaching and Learning for the DuPage Regional Office of Education. As an independent consultant and coach she has helped clients launch coaching programs, develop and align curriculum, nurture leadership capacity, articulate vision and beliefs, assess organizational health, and build learning communities.
Dr. Troyer held a variety of leadership roles in St. Charles CUSD 303 from 1990-2006. As Curriculum Coordinator she led the development and articulation of K-12 integrated curricula in literacy, social studies and fine arts. She served as Principal of Anderson-Little Woods School for six years and opened Bell-Graham School as its first principal. As Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, she facilitated the development of Quality Teaching Standards, worked with teams to design evaluation systems for teachers and administrators using the Danielson Framework, and successfully negotiated collective bargaining agreements with four separate associations in her final year prior to retirement.
Prior to her work in St. Charles, Dr. Troyer was a full-time instructor at Northern Illinois University in the reading education program. In the summer of 1990, she was selected to teach a literacy workshop at the University of London for teachers from US Department of Defense Dependent Schools throughout Western Europe. She has been an adjunct professor for NIU and Aurora University and has conducted numerous professional development sessions throughout northern Illinois. Her 14 years of classroom teaching experience was in kindergarten, first grade and special education in a small rural district.
She holds a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from Northern Illinois University, with post-doctoral studies in educational administration. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in special education, where she learned the importance of designing each learning experience to meet the client’s needs.