Mrs. Boyle couldn’t be more excited to meet her new second graders this year! This will be her 13th year as a teacher and 9th year at Romona. Mrs. Boyle graduated from the University of Illinois where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education in 2014. In May 2020, she earned her Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Concordia University. In her free time, she loves to read, exercise, and spend time with her family. 

This is Mrs. Johnsonʼs 23rd year at Romona Elementary School. Before arriving at Romona, she taught in Mundelein for four years. Mrs. Johnson received her undergraduate degree from Elmhurst College and her graduate degree from National-Louis University.

Mrs. Johnson enjoys camping with her family and mountain biking. She has four children, ages 20, 17, 12 and 11. During the summer she enjoys spending time at the pool and vacationing in Wisconsin with her husband and children.

Mrs. Karwowski loves Romona School and teaching kids! When she was little, she used to “play” school and would be the teacher to all of the younger neighborhood kids. She would make her little brother and younger friends be her students! This will be Mrs. Karwowski’s 30th year of teaching and her 20th year at Romona School! Throughout her teaching career in Wilmette and in a previous school district, she has been a second, third, and fourth grade teacher.

Mrs. Karwowski and her husband, Tad, have two children, a daughter, Cassidy (30) who lives in Loveland, Colorado with her husband and a son, Cameron (26) who lives in Palatine with his wife! Mrs. Karwowski loves to kayak and paddle board, ride electric bikes, read, shop, see happy, funny movies, go to restaurants with friends, travel, and spend lots of time with her family. She loves to have fun in and out of the classroom with a positive, smiley attitude. It is her goal every day to make learning exciting, to personally connect with the kids and to get them to love coming to school each day!

This is Mrs. Parker's 16th year teaching at Romona. Before starting at Romona, she taught in Ohio for eight years in a variety of positions, including as a fifth and sixth grade Learning Behavioral Specialist (LBS), a seventh and eighth grade LBS and as a special education pre-k teacher. She also worked for two years prior to that at Don Johnston, Inc., a company that specializes in technology and support for struggling students. Mrs. Parker earned her undergraduate degree in Special Education from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and a Master's Degree from Concordia University in Inclusive Classrooms. Mrs. Parker currently lives in Lake Villa with her 17 year old son, 16 year old daughter and her husband. She spends her free time playing board games, working in her garden, birding, baking, and geocaching. Mrs. Parker always looks forward to school in the fall and can’t wait to get started!

This is Mrs. Seed’s 27th year teaching and most of those years have been at Romona. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education at Illinois State University and her Master of Education in Language and Literacy at National-Louis University. She is also a National Board Certified Teacher. She enjoys family time, reading, visiting small bookstores and going on road trips.