{"id":1214906,"date":"2023-03-31T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1214906"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T01:14:54","slug":"tyler-isd-announces-new-principal-for-hubbard-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1214906","title":{"rendered":"Tyler ISD Announces New Principal for Hubbard Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1214907\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-175x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-175x167.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-366x350.jpg 366w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-768x734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-1536x1468.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; John Smiley, principal of Rice Elementary School, has been named the new principal at Hubbard Middle School. He replaces Todd Dreifort, who was recently named the Director of the Career and Technology Center. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coming in with experiences at the elementary and high school level, along with having a middle school child of my own, I am extremely excited to join the Hubbard Huskies team as principal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smiley said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With Rice feeding into Hubbard, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see some familiar faces this fall with this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 5th-grade class moving with me and last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class already there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--> Smiley joined Tyler ISD in 2009 as a chemistry teacher at the former Robert E. Lee High School. In 2015, he moved into administrative roles at the campus, serving as an assistant principal in 2015, an academic dean in 2016, and dean of instruction in 2018. In 2021, Smiley took over the principalship at Rice Elementary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; John Smiley, principal of Rice Elementary School, has been named the new principal at Hubbard Middle School. He replaces Todd Dreifort, who was recently named the Director of the Career and Technology Center. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coming in with experiences at the elementary and high school level, along with having a middle school child of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1214906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler ISD Announces New Principal for Hubbard Middle School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1214910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-175x167.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler ISD Announces New Principal for Hubbard Middle School","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 04:47:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/John-Smiley-scaled-e1680299593903-175x167.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler ISD Announces New Principal for Hubbard Middle School","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214909,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214906\/revisions\/1214909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}