{"id":5395,"date":"2021-06-01T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2021-06-01T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:06:04","slug":"welcome-new-principal-matt-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/welcome-new-principal-matt-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome New Principal Matt Potter!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To the Seward Silvers Community<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I would like to take a second to introduce myself.&nbsp; My name is Matt Potter, and I have been asked to help lead Seward Middle School for the upcoming school year.&nbsp; I have bounced around Alaska since I was in 1<sup>st<\/sup> Grade when my parents moved from Idaho to teach in Western Alaska.&nbsp; I am a product of the UA system, receiving both my Bachelors and Teaching Certificate from UAA, and my MEd Leadership from UAS.&nbsp; I started my career teaching Math in Anchorage and then moved north of Fairbanks where I ran a small school in a town called Circle.&nbsp; Currently my wife, 3-year-old son, and I live in Sitka where I have been the assistant Principal and counselor.&nbsp; We look forward to our new adventure in Seward, and I look forward to getting to know the staff, students and community that make up SMS when school starts next year.&nbsp; Together, we can ensure our students will be successful both in and out of school!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank you,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Matt Potter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Seward Silvers Community I would like to take a second to introduce myself.&nbsp; My name is Matt Potter, and I have been asked to help lead Seward Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/seward-middle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}