Four candidates vie for Libby Elementary School principal

Libby School District on Thursday announced four candidates for Libby Elementary School Principal, a position opened by the recent resignation of Ron Goodman.

The candidates will interview with the Libby School Board at 4 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, March 26 and March 27, at the KW Maki Theater, a news release states. Each candidate will spend part of the day interviewing and part of the day visiting the school.

The candidates are Kaide Dodson, Thad Kaiser, Lynne Peterson and Beth Stevenson.

Dodson, Libby Elementary School’s assistant principal, previously spent three years as director of the district’s curriculum, special education and federal programs. Prior to that she was an assistant principal at the Quest Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada, and began her career teaching English and art in Crescent City, California in 2004.

Kaiser is superintendent and principal at Noxon Schools, roles he previously filled for three years in Chester. His first administrative position was as a principal and athletic director in the Sun River Valley School District from 2007-2013. He began his career as a middle school teacher at St. Labre School in Ashland.

Peterson is superintendent and high school principal at Savage Schools in Eastern Montana. She previously taught third grade at Rowland Hall Elementary in Salt Lake City, Utah. She started out as an elementary school teacher in Red Lodge in 1984.

Stevenson is assistant principal at a middle school in Hampstead, New Hampshire, and previously held a similar position in Winchester, New Hampshire. She began her career as a middle school and sixth-grade teacher in New Hampshire.

Ron Goodman will be leaving at the end of the school year to work as a financial advisor for Edward Jones.