Butler new principal at SMHS

Interim Assistant Principal of Rawlins High School, Linda Butler, is taking on the role as Principal of Saratoga Middle High School starting in the 2015-2016 academic year, and she is beyond excited for the opportunity.

“We are thrilled, I am just so excited and I can’t even express how fortunate we are to go back to Saratoga and to have this new opportunity.”

Both Butler and her husband Dan Butler, are very familiar with the region — Dan was a graduate of Saratoga and Linda graduated from Rawlins. They have a camp just south of Encampment and take every opportunity they can to spend their time in the Platte Valley with their three kids.

Butler graduated from the University of Wyoming, received her bachelors in elementary education and has spent time teaching in Rawlins and in Colorado. Her recent position has been both working as a District School Improvement Specialist and was appointed as Interim Assistant Principal of Rawlins High School.

What Butler says she is most looking forward to as principal is to meet the students, developing connections with them and helping the school excel in academic endeavors. “I am just excited just to work with the students, the staff and the community. The support that Platte Valley has it just makes you want to be a part of it.”

According to Butler, she is also ready to help the school to continue its academic excellence.

“I am so excited about going into a 7-12 school and being able to work towards growing as a school and I just want us to be a standout academically because with a small school, I think that we can do a really great job with our state assessments,” said Butler.

Butler also sees the importance of extra-curricular activities and wants to ensure continuation of those. “We want to continue our growth academically, and we look at activities such as athletics as important — but not everybody is an athlete — and so I hope we can continue to have a nice range of activities for kids to participate in because there is a direct correlation to their participation in out of school activities and academics.”

Butler is also aware that there will be some challenges transitioning into the school, and is ready to tackle that. “They have been used to Mr. Uhling as principal for the past 14 years and anytime you make a change there will be an adjustment and I think that will be the biggest challenge — building that trust with the staff and the students and building that relationship.”

 

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