Derrick Burress
Principal at Lake County Tech Campus- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Professional Educator License General Administrative
Illinois State Board of EducationSep, 2009- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Lake County Tech Campus
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal
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Jul 2014 - Present
The Tech Campus is an extension site of many area high schools for juniors and seniors to attend classes in a specific career training program. The Tech Campus is regarded as one of the best career and technical education training facilities in the Midwest with a highly qualified staff dedicated to excellence in career and technical education. With twenty-two member high schools throughout Lake and McHenry Counties representing over 1,900 high school students, we have the largest career technical secondary educational system in the state of Illinois. The Tech Campus experience provides an educational environment that supports and encourages individual learning styles, develops occupational skills and professionalism, promotes academic growth, and assists students in discovering their potential. In addition to high school credit, the Tech Campus partnered with the College of Lake County, allows students the opportunity to earn college credit at no cost. Classes are offered in three sessions, five days a week. Each Tech Campus program allows students to learn at their own pace through a hands-on, experiential based philosophy. Through their respective programs, students use program-specific mathematics, science reasoning, language arts, and technology in real world applications. Show less
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Principal
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Jul 2010 - Jun 2014
Kishwaukee Education Consortium is the Regional Safe School and Career and Technical Education Center for DeKalb County and Rochelle Township. KEC serves approximately 150 Alternative Education Middle School and High School students. KEC also serves approximateley 450 junior and senior students from area high schools in 17 different Career and Tech Ed. programs.
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History Teacher & Service Learning Coordinator/Dean of Students
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Jan 2003 - Jun 2010
High School and Middle School History Teacher, Service Learning Coordinator and Dean of Students for the DeKalb County Regional Safe School and TAOEP programs at Kishwaukee Education Consortium.
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Education
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2007 - 2009
Northern Illinois University
Master's Degree, Education Administration -
1998 - 2001
Northern Illinois University
Bachelor's degree, History & Secondary Education
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