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Growing Our Future Together!!! 

As we are preparing for the start of the 2023-2024 school year, I want to extend a warm welcome back to our students, parents, and staff.  The Mission of Butler County Schools centers on Building… Collaborating… and Shaping.  Our primary goal is to provide quality instruction to our students in a safe and welcoming environment.  Our team has prepared facilities, updated and amended policies and procedures, and altered educational and operational practices to make absolutely certain our schools will operate in the safest and most productive environment possible. 

Many construction projects are being completed across our district. At Butler County High School, we are updating the HVAC system in classrooms. As you travel out past the high school on 231, you will see construction happening on our new Early Childhood and Training Center.  This will allow our district to expand our early childhood programs and bring some growth relief to Morgantown Elementary, freeing up much needed classroom space.  North Butler Elementary will additionally see two new classrooms being built this year, creating more space and allowing for future growth.  Butler County Middle School has had foundation repairs completed and will be receiving new awnings for both bus and car rider drop off in the mornings.    

The Butler County School District invested in upgraded video surveillance and monitoring systems in addition to access control systems for each school in our district.  This new system streamlines each of our schools' video systems into one district system that will increase the security on our district campuses.  We have additionally upgraded our visitor management system into a universal system which will work to keep our students safe while ensuring that visitors to our schools are properly vetted and appropriate monitoring is occurring.   These upgrades and advancements continue to keep Butler County Schools at the forefront of security innovations and practices in the state of Kentucky.  

Our mental health team has worked to incorporate a new social-emotional curriculum for the start of the 2023-2024 school year.  This will provide the necessary support and needed services to allow us to reach all students where they are and to help them grow not only academically but in their social-emotional development as well.

Through the collaborative efforts of teachers and administrators across our district, Butler County Schools have seen a new content series for language arts, science, and social studies being incorporated last year.  We will be implementing a new math series for the 2023-2024 school year.  These curriculum series were thoroughly researched and vetted using our Kentucky Academic Standards as the basis for content and curriculum.  These programs have been a valuable resource to our students and staff and additionally they will also help support the district’s mission of vertically and horizontally aligning our curriculum. Most importantly, we will be better able to unlock the talents and gifts of every one of our students by providing the foundation that each of them need in order to realize their full potential and achieve the dreams they have for themselves and for their future.  We must engage students to think critically in order to be successful global citizens.  As we collectively work together for our students, we will be able to build the 21st Century skills our students need. Skills such as problem-solving, self-management, working with people, along with developing and using new technology are at the forefront of our mission to develop students with the necessary 21st Century Skills to be successful. As we support our students in building these skills, our hope is that we are also providing help and support to our parents and community in their efforts to shape and expand our students and their understanding of the ever-changing world around them.   

In the classrooms and hallways of Butler County Schools, there are our next generation of workers and leaders of the future in all walks of life: business, engineering, education, law, health care, arts and humanities, trade and skilled work, etc…. What we know, and what makes Butler County special, is that we do not need to look to the future to see leadership. We see advocacy, leadership, innovation, and student-led change today - in our schools, in our extra-curricular events, and across our community.  Ultimately, we must keep the needs and supports for our students as our common ground and focus as we continue to evolve as a district.  In the end, we know we cannot do these tremendous things without one another.  

We live in a time now, more than any time before, where thinking innovatively has become a necessity of life.  We will continue to think innovatively and examine all situations holistically.  We have worked together as a community to strengthen relationships and develop a joint problem-solving approach to new opportunities that centers around helping our students become independent, lifelong learners.  We have achieved this through open dialogue, collecting data, and examining that data, along with improving and perfecting our practices and procedures.  We have and will continue to build capacity and clarity in instructional practices during these changing times.  This will include training, sharing data, monitoring our mission, vision, values, and making adjustments when necessary.  We have tried to focus our attention on only those areas that we can control to help maximize efficiency and effectiveness.  This has promoted a transparent mindset of growth and support across our district.  

When I think of the Butler County community, I think of pride, perseverance, a blue-collar work ethic, and an overall toughness and resilience.  These qualities are something that Butler County can be proud of and are part of what makes me so proud to say I am the Superintendent of Butler County Schools.  I am proud to live in Butler County with my family and to watch our community grow and progress toward the future.  As we continue to work together, we will build our community by becoming One Team, with One Vision, that will make us Butler Strong. 

Sincerely, 

Superintendent Robert Tuck

2023-2024 Butler County School District Board Members

Amy Hood --Third District 

Rich Ellis -- First District 

Debbie Hammers -- Second District 

Delbert Johnson -- Fourth District 

Ryan Daugherty -- Fifth District