The Hanover School Division has settled on a new assistant superintendent. The board of trustees announced that Leanne Peter, Ed.D., will begin her term as of September 1 later this year.

Peters brings with her 21 years of educational administration and teaching experience, including a two-year stint as assistant superintendent of the Sunrise School Division, which includes communities northeast of Winnipeg such as Oakbank, Beausejour, and Lac du Bonnet. Before that, she served an additional seven years as an assistant superintendent in the Lakeshore School Division, which oversees 12 schools in the Interlake, and seven earlier years as a principal and teacher in the Rolling River School Division in western Manitoba.

In 2011, she completed a Master of Education in Educational Administration, and in 2019 she earned a Doctor of Education in K–12 Leadership. In addition to her work in school divisions, Peters is currently the chairperson of the Manitoba Association of School Superintendents Professional Learning Committee.

This news follows the announcement in early May that the HSD board had also hired a new superintendent, Shelley Amos.

Both the superintendent and assistant superintendent positions are deemed interim—at least, for the time being.

“That’s what Manitoba Education and the province said we could do,” said Rick Peters, the school division’s board chair, last month. “We couldn’t hire anything permanent in any of the management positions, nor could any other school division,” he adds. “So we’re not unique in that. That’s why it’s interim.”