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Jack Baldermann
Jack Baldermann has been a passionate educational leader for over 30 years. His experience includes leading several high-poverty urban schools to significant success and supporting eight different priority or high-poverty schools to become Model PLC at Work® schools.
Jack Baldermann
Jack Baldermann has been a passionate educational leader for over 30 years. Jack was named the Illinois Principal of the Year in 2017 and was one of three finalists for National Principal of the Year in 2018. In 2020, Jack led his team as principal of Westmont High School (IL) to win the DuFour Award as the best professional learning community in the country. In 2021, Jack and his team at Westmont won the National Blue Ribbon Award; Westmont is the most diverse regular high school in Illinois to win this honor in the last 25 years.
Jack’s experience includes leading several high-poverty urban schools to significant success. He has also supported eight different priority or high-poverty schools to become Model PLC at Work® schools.
He has led Westmont High School to become one of the most-improved and top-performing schools in the United States, with a 99 percent graduation rate, double-digit increases in state test scores, exceptional culture and climate results, one of the most-improved Advanced Placement programs in the country, the highest rating (Exemplary) from the Illinois State Board of Education, and the greatest improvement of any regular high school in three different national rankings.
Jack has worked with school districts in 47 states and Canada while continuing his duties as a full-time administrator. He also helped lead Riverside Brookfield High School to excellent student-achievement success and Model PLC at Work status, and he was one of the first principals in the country to implement PLC concepts at Carl Sandburg High School in 1996.
Priority Schools in a PLC at Work®
Hand-selected and trained by PLC at Work champions our Priority Schools in a PLC at Work experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process and have specific experience with the unique challenges that face schools labeled as low performing. Work with them to identify and prioritize critical areas of growth to implement changes in a timely manner with a focus on student achievement.
PLC at Work®
PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.
RTI at Work™
RTI at Work experts focus on learning for all students and will empower you to build your own timely, targeted, and systematic intervention program. Work with them to implement a results-driven program that provides targeted instruction at all tiers of intervention.
Presentations by Jack Baldermann
- Motivating Disengaged Students: Useful Methods and Ideas for Educators
- Improving Graduation Rates, Test Scores, and Student Achievement
- SMART Goals and Other Ideas That Work
- Building Teams That Significantly Improve Our Educational Community
- How to Become a Most-Improved and Top-Performing High School
- Collaborative Leadership to Ensure Learning for All
- Leading in a Challenging Urban School
- Strategic Thinking, Leadership, PLCs, and Results
“Jack Baldermann's presentation was simply awesome! Everybody is still talking about his professional development. Jack is one of the best presenters I have encountered in my 36 years as an educator.”
“Great information, very persuasive, wonderful audience participation, relevant, and meaningful.”
“As a new teacher, it was helpful for me because it allowed me to get to better know the members of my department and PLC group. I really thought that the SMART goals were a great idea to help keep the group focused on bettering education for our students. Thank you for coming! This presentation opened my eyes on important things I need to do to be an exceptional educator!”
