He is a retired principal but teaches at Canyons School District’s alternative high school. Provo School District serves about 13,600 students.Īccording to a letter from Dau to the school community posted on the school district’s website, she is a graduate of Bountiful High School.Īfter graduating from BYU, she was hired by the Davis School District to teach at Davis High School, where she met her husband, David. Rittel, who has served in the position since June 2012 and is retiring. Prior to her current administrative appointment and leading Jordan High School, Dau was principal of Midvale Middle School, an assistant principal at Jordan High and for nearly 17 years was an AP history teacher at Davis High School.ĭau will succeed Superintendent Keith C. “COVID taught me one thing and that is, you have to be communicating and be on the same page as your parents or you cannot get through the challenges that our society is facing unless we all work together,” she said. She has two graduate degrees from the University Utah, one a master’s of science in history and the other a master’s of education in educational leadership and policy.ĭau served as principal of Jordan High School, part of that time during the pandemic, which was instructive, she said. Dau start July 1.ĭau, who earned her undergraduate degree in history from BYU, returns to Provo as leader of the city’s public school system.ĭau, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the 1950s, said her father impressed upon her at a young age that she should obtain as much education as possible, because “education has the ability to open up endless opportunities for all when we work together.” The district school board voted unanimously Friday in a special meeting at Timpview Middle School to appoint Dau, who is Canyons School District’s director of federal and state programs, as its next superintendent.
Wendy Dau, a veteran educator, school principal and district-level administrator, has been named superintendent of Provo City School District.
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