Jennifer Hartmann

About Jennifer Hartmann

Jennifer Hartmann has been in the field of education for 23 years. She has taught at public, non-unionized charter, and unionized charter schools in Chicago and the Chicago suburbs. She has been an assistant principal at both the middle and high school levels and will be the Associate Principal of Memorial Junior High School in Lansing, Illinois after July 1, 2024. She has taught social studies, history, English Language Arts, Writing, Science, and Life Skills to grades 6-12. She was the South Cook County Assistant Principal of the Year in 2022-2023, a Moon Scholarship Recipient in 2023, is pursuing her PhD in Educational Leadership with Illinois Superintendency certification and is passionate about resiliency in leadership. She has a B.A. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. from Roosevelt University. She is a survivor that has had several tumultuous events coincide with her own education and leadership (her house burning down while a college student, a traumatic medical emergency at the start of her marriage, a public divorce, and leading a school without a principal during COVID). All of these experiences have made her strong, persistent, and empathetic to whatever her students or their families may be going through and she is a fierce cultivator of positive relationships, an expert in student motivation, and hopes to inspire other leaders to be passionate about practical ways to embed social emotional learning skills, survivorship, and empathy in students and school staff.