RBUSD leader Steven Keller is retiring
by Mark McDermott Retiring has never been a word that much applied to Steven Keller. Keller was appointed as the Redondo Beach Unified School District’s superintendent in 2006, and came bounding into the community with a youthful zeal so unlike previous local education leaders that it represented not so much a changing of the guard as a complete departure from what people liked to call “Old Redondo” at the time. Tall and dapper, with a dimple on his chin, Keller possessed an easy but goofy charisma, a cross between movie stars Cary Grant and Jim Carrey. He was unabashedly ambitious, something that led to mixed results early on, such as when his proposed school bond measure intended to modernize RBUSD’s dilapidated campuses met a 0-5 vote from the very school board who’d appointed him. He foisted “Good to Great” banners across the district and made a book of the same name required reading among district leaders and teachers. Somewhere along the way, Keller’s vision came to fruition. A before and after picture of RBUSD from 2006 to today reveals a district transformed — physically, by a $145 million bond measure that Keller eventually marshaled (with a 5-0 vote, thank you very…
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