Stephanie Ritter is one of the newest teacher at Jacksonville High School. The school she used to teach at was Rochester. She taught Introduction to Business 1 and 2. She also taught Consumer Ed and Accounting. At JHS, she teaches Business Math, Business Law, Consumer Ed and Keyboarding. Next semester she will be teaching Computer Applications in place of Business Law. If she could choose to teach a different subject, she said she would like to bring Introduction to Business to JHS. Her favorite subject to teach is Consumer Ed. She says, “It covers a wide variety of topics. Consumer Ed covers topics that every student will need to know.”
Ritter is originally from Jenison, Michigan, and later moved to Illinois for school. She went to college at Illinois State University and got a Bachelor’s degree in Business Education. She chose to become a teacher, more specifically a business teacher, because she “loved” her high school business classes and the business club Distributive Economic Clubs of America, or DECA for short. When I asked her what she liked here at JHS, she said she really liked the students and the faculty and enjoys being a teacher here. Her best experience from teaching is “making a difference in students’ lives.”
Before becoming a teacher, Ritter has worked for ICAHN. She consulted rural hospitals on HIPAA Security and project management (she would check and see if those places had good security). She has switched from being a teacher and doing Security Management. Hopefully she will continue to be a teacher. She also lives in Chatham with her husband and two dogs.