The WW-P Board of Education voted 8-0 on Tuesday, July 10, to make Steve Mayer the new Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, replacing Victoria Kniewel, who will become Superintendent of Schools on September 1.##M:[more]##
Mayer is currently the principal of Grover Middle School, a position he has held since the school opened in 1999. His replacement has not yet been selected.
Mayer was previously the principal of James Madison Elementary School in Edison. He was a middle school teacher in Howell Township after he graduated from Messiah College in Grantham, PA. He earned his masters degree in education from Rutgers, and will complete his doctorate program, at Rutgers next year.
Mayer lives in Robbinsville, and is married with three sons. In the fall, they will begin ninth, sixth, and fourth grades. Mayer grew up in Scotch Plains, but for a while, lived in Costa Rica and Peru when his father’s work as a financial consultant moved the family to South America. His mother was a nurse. He is one of four children.
“I got into education because it is important to me to be doing something meaningful and challenging,” said Mayer. “The idea of having influence over what happens with the next generation is motivational to me.”
