Dave Johnson’s 26 years in education includes 25 years at Normal West High School. As a chemistry teacher, he was one of the founding teachers at Normal West and since then served not only as a teacher but as an assistant principal, an associate principal, and now in his 8th year as principal. Dave completed his undergraduate work in the Teaching of Chemistry at the Univerisity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and continued his graduate work in Educational Administration at Illinois State University.