Lorie Rost, the Jefferson City School District's assistant superintendent of elementary and secondary education, will retire June 30.
Rost has served more than 31 years in public education. She started her career in 1989 as a sixth-grade teacher at Warrensburg Middle School. In 1994, she joined JC Schools as a teacher at Thorpe Gordon Elementary School, where she taught fifth and second grades.
She taught at Thorpe Gordon for 10 years before becoming the principal at Cedar Hill Elementary School, where "she set rigorous standards for learning, teaching, and student and staff behavior" and implemented "new models to support better student behavior and staff professional development," according to a newsletter from JC Schools.
Rost was hired as assistant superintendent of elementary education in 2017 after serving as Cedar Hill Elementary principal for 13 years.
One of Rost's proudest accomplishments was leading the Comprehensive Literacy Model, according to the school district's newsletter. The model has provided elementary schools with a comprehensive English-language arts curriculum and pacing guide, more literary resources, and consistent and in-depth training for staff and administrators.
She worked with literacy leaders, instructional coaches and elementary administrators to establish English-language arts lab classrooms across the district. The labs showcased the best instructional practices being used by teachers in the literacy workshop model.