Herzberg looks to get back into the classroom

By Phil Monson
After a 25-year run in school administration, Jeff Herzberg is anxious to get back to teaching and coaching.
Herzberg, now in his seventh year as superintendent of the Gilmore City-Bradgate School District and 10th as head of the Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency, will step down from those positions in June and return to his original calling of teaching in the classroom.
“It has been a great experience for me. All the leadership things I have been able to do and support the Gilmore City-Bradgate School District these last seven years, it has been a wonderful experience in my career,” Herzberg said.
“Some people thought the school wouldn’t be here for much longer when I arrived and the daycare here has been wildly successful and has been added to our student enrollment, so it has been a great experience to be in administration the last 25 years,” Herzberg said.
Herzberg is ready to make the transition back to the classroom. He and his wife, Wendy, have purchased a home in Des Moines. She is now living and working there.
“My hope is that the last five years of my career I can teach at the middle school level in Des Moines. I’d like to teach at Harding Middle School on the north side of Des Moines and coach girls basketball,” Herzberg said. “After working 25 years as an administrator and having only taught for five years, I want to get back to my roots and finish what I started and see if I can do it.”
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