Allison L. Strupeck has been the Director of Communication Services for District 300 since August 2006. Her primary areas of responsibility include community relations, media relations, publications, social media, student/staff recognition programs, emergency/crisis communications, district-level events, the Rapid Communication System, and compliance with the Freedom of Information Act and the Open Meetings Act.  She also assists district leaders in strategic planning, internal communications, government relations, audio/video projects, and other areas.  For more information on the D300 Communication Services Department, please click here.

Allison comes from a family of teachers and is honored to be able to support the public education system.  She earned her first Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas, near Dallas.  Later, she worked as a substitute Spanish teacher in the Milwaukee area while she pursued her journalism degree.  She earned a second B.A., graduating summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She was a staff reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 2002 to 2004 on the night police beat, which regularly took her into Milwaukee's most troubled areas to cover late-breaking news such as homicides, fires and accidents.  She went on to work full-time for the Northwest Herald, where she won the 2005 first place award for best in-depth reporting among daily papers from the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association.

Since 2009, Allison has served as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Illinois chapter of the National School Public Relations Association (INSPRA).  She has received numerous state-level communications awards and has presented at several state and national conferences.  She is also a documentary filmmaker.