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Show A Viking Through and Through in Coaching. He and his wife have five children ranging from ages 12 to 21 . Tim has lived in American Fork for the past 1 5 years and in Orem previous to that. In his spare time, he loves backpacking in the back country with his family and he enjoys lawn work. After graduating from college, col-lege, Mr. Brantley taught for two years at Independence High School in the Provo School District. He then worked in the Alpine School District, where he taught and coached and was an assistant assis-tant principal at Orem High School for six years. Tim was a principal at Lehi Junior Ju-nior High for three years and served as principal at East Shore High School for the last eight years. Tim also has a Master's degree in Educational Educa-tional Leadership and a reading read-ing endorsement as well. Mr. Brantley is excited byAngie Walker In April 2010 the Alpine School District announced that Tim Brantley would be the new principal at Pleasant Grove High School beginning July 1 . Principal Brantley admitted admit-ted that he thought he might be moved this year and he told his wife that PGHS would be a school he would be interested in. "It still has that small community feel to it and there's a lot of tradition tradi-tion and pride here that goes toward building a very positive posi-tive culture and great learning atmosphere," Brantley said. "I feel very blessed and fortunate for-tunate to be able to work here in this community. When I grew up in Denver, we were the North High Vikings, so I'm a Viking again!" Tim Brantley attended BYU where he met his wife. While at BYU, he obtained a degree in English and a minor Tim continued, "The vision vi-sion I have for schools is to be focused on student needs and student learning," he said. "That's our business, so what we want to do is make our decisions de-cisions based on the needs of improving our students' ability abil-ity to learn and be better prepared pre-pared for their future as they go forward in life. The mission mis-sion statement here of 'Navigating 'Navi-gating life through learning', I think, is very similar to my philosophy. Great success can come in life as you get more education, more skills . and abilitites. We want to be a student-driven facility," Brantley concluded. Principal Brantley, who desires to be a better partner with the community, extended extend-ed the following invitation. "I have an open door. I appreciate appre-ciate the opportunity to fulfill the needs of the community and the students here. Come and visit with me," he urged . parents. j J f . ' , i M about his new position as principal prin-cipal of Pleasant Grove High School. He stated that community com-munity members, students, staff and faculty have been very welcoming and friendly. "I know that our previously principal, Mr. Christian, has just done a great job in getting get-ting things going very well," said Brantley. "The school is really doing well. There is great pre gress being made in focusing on student needs and student learning. There's a great culture of learning and cooperation and collaboration here at the school," he added. Tim Brantley is the new principal prin-cipal at Pleasant Grove High School. Photo courtesy of Timpanogos Times |