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Show Brian Jolley is Proud to be a Product of Alpine School District got into education," Mr. Jolley continued. Principal Jolley is open to feedback from the community. "I always have an open door. Any concerns or things they want to address or discuss, I am always available to hear their viewpoints and get their perspective on what's best for their student, what's best for all kids, and what can make us better as a school," he concluded. by Angie Walker In April 2010 the Alpine School District announced many changes, one of which stated that Brian Jolley would be the principal of Pleasant Grove Junior High School on July 1. Brian Jolley and his wife, Melissa, have five children, three boys and two girls ranging rang-ing from 2 to 10 years old. Melissa was a P.E. teacher and student-taught at Pleasant Grove Junior High School. The Jollcy's live in American Ameri-can Fork', only three minutes away from Tim Brantley, principal prin-cipal of Pleasant Grove High School. Brian loves reading historical histori-cal fiction and historical novels. nov-els. One of his favorite books is "1776". He and his family love to go camping especially at Arches and Capital Reef. Trialhlons and cycling are also things Brian loves to do in his spare time. Brian has been in Utah valley val-ley almost his whole life, lie was born in Iowa and at the afe of three, his family moved lo Orcm. Brian attended West-more West-more Elementary, Lakeridge Junior llij'li School, and Mountain View lli;.',h School. Mr. Jolley continued his education edu-cation al BYU where he received re-ceived his Bachelor's Decree in Spanish and Coaching. Mr. Jolley began his career as a Spanish teacher, teaching for nine years at Oak Canyon Junior High. One of Brian's passions is athletics and soccer. soc-cer. While he was at Oak Canyon, he coached soccer at BYU for about ten years. When Brian became an administrator, admin-istrator, he decided it was too much, so he quit coaching. During his last year at Oak Canyon, Brian was named teacher on special assignment for two years. In addition lo classroom responsibilities, he spent time in the front office of-fice where he received specific assignments and shadowed the assistant principals and learned from them. "It was like a big, long internship," he said. While Brian served in this position, he went back lo Utah State to get his Administrative Adminis-trative Degree. After two years of being a teacher on special assignment, assign-ment, Brian was assigned as an assistant principal at I,ak-eridgc I,ak-eridgc Junior High School. This year is his first assignment assign-ment as principal. Mr. Jolley Jol-ley expressed his feelings, "To be honest I am a little bit nervous which is a good thing. I think I have a pretty good idea of the differences and responsibilities as principal," princi-pal," he added . "I think more than anything I am excited to work with this community and staff. I've already gotten got-ten to know them and some of the parents in our community commu-nity council and PTA. They are phenomenal people who want the best for all kids, so I look forward to working with them. It is exciting to see the potential for great things and know that you can be a part of those great things because of the people you work with," he stated. Principal Jolley shared his vision, "I think (here's been some great things that have happened over the last seven or eight years," he said. "Replacing "Re-placing a principal like Mr. Ed man is a daunting task. My vision is to continue moving forward on the positive things the community and staff have worked together to accomplish. accom-plish. When I look al my vision vi-sion for a school , it is a lofty goal, but you want all kids to be successful." "It is a goal worth pursuing. pursu-ing. As a school our vision is lo do everything possible to make thai happen. II any kid falls through the cracks; it is going, to be disappoint ing to us because we leel like maybe there was something different we could have done to help that student out . Thai is what I want lo do and why I Y : v N rY Alpine School Distiict announced that Hrian Jolley v he the net pimcipid of Pleasant drove Junior High S liol. I'ltOtO I'IMIIW'M ol TimilltO.OS llMU'S |