Adele Bovard
Trainer
Adele Bovard has served as a classroom teacher, building principal of elementary and secondary schools, deputy superintendent and superintendent of schools. At each level of work, she utilized restorative practices by engaging students and allowing them to take greater responsibility which enhanced the quality of teaching and learning for everyone. Her experience in both suburban and urban schools highlighted the need for mitigating disproportionality of student suspensions. Adele served on the New York State Bar Association Task Force on Reducing the School to Prison Pipeline. She is a lead facilitator for Why Restorative Justice based in Colorado and is certified in Restorative Justice Leadership by the Center for Restorative Justice University of San Diego. She consults for the Center for Dispute Settlement in Rochester NY. She is honored to serve on the board of New York State School Music Association: Chair of the Diversity Committee.
Adele has spent the last 35 years as an educator working towards building leadership from her time in the central office roles of deputy superintendent and superintendent of schools. The work of restorative practice has had the most significant impact on people which is why she chose this as focal point of her current work. Well known among her colleagues across the state, Adele is acknowledged as an innovative educator with teaching, administrative and superintendent experience in rural, urban, and suburban schools.
Adele’s experience includes Chair of the New York State Association of Women Administrators, New York State Task Force on the School to Prison Pipeline, Co-Chair of the Assessment Committee for New York State Council of School Superintendents, Co-Chair of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative Education Work Group, and member of the Middle Skills Task Force of the Finger Lakes Economic Council.
She has also served as past president of the Monroe Council of School Superintendents and Founding Chair of the Webster Community Coalition for Economic Development. Adele's life work is creating educational opportunities for students that provoke agency and instill the ability to dream and create a personal path to a successful future. Her work with educational leaders is predicated on clarifying existing strength and building complimentary strategic teams to engage in systems work uniquely designed for each district.