Butler Bulldog Weekly Update
What's New at Butler School This Week!
Leading and Learning with Love and Good Intention
Building Hours
Thank you!
New Staff to our school community. Welcome with Bulldog Pride!
Justien Martin - Community Partnership Coordinator
Fun fact: I have over 20 indoor house plants
Quote: If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” - Maya Angelo
Color: Olive Green, I'm a pretty good home cook, and my favorite side dish is sweet plaintains, Cheezits, Spin-drift
Eric Denoncourt - 7th Grade Math
Fun fact: I worked for the New England Patriots.
Math Fun Fact: In a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people will have the same birthday. With 75 people, the probability goes up to 99%.
Favorite quote: "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself" - Lloyd Alexander
Favorites: - Color: Green, Food: Crab Rangoon, Pizza or Chicken Caesar Salad. Snack: Smart Food Popcorn, Drink: Coke
Hailey Lowell - Special Educator Teacher
Fun fact: I played softball for 16 years, 9 years competitively, and during my time at Simmons University! I currently coach a 14U travel softball team in Windham, NH!
Favorite quote: "A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall." - Serena Williams
Favorites: color is green. My favorite food is Cajun shrimp alfredo, and I love any flavor of Sunchips and Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee!
Austin Corcoran - 7th ELA
Coming From: Lowell High School
Fun fact:I've been to 38 states throughout my life, and I plan to visit all 50 in the near future.
My favorite quote: "I cannot be a pessimist, because I am alive." by James Baldwin
Favorites: Color is blue, my favorite food is steak, my favorite snack is chocolate chip cookies, and my favorite drink is Dr. Pepper.
Luis Cruz - 6th Grade Math
Coming from: Lawrence Public Schools
Fun Fact: I just got married on August 6th
My favorite quote: “No! Try not! Do or do not. There is no try.” (Yoda.. yes, I’m a Star Wars fan)
Favorites: Favorite food is anything pasta related with lots of cheese(Lasagna, Chicken Parm, fettuccine Alfredo, you name it), favorite color is green, favorite snack is cheese, crackers, and add some salami to that! My favorite drink is a nice cold freshly squeezed lemonade.
Andrea Loughlin - Special Education Teacher
Coming from: Lawrence Public Schools.
Fun Fact: I have pet guinea pigs with human names- Walter and Simon
My favorite quote: “ One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai
Favorites: Color is turquoise. My favorite food is pizza! I have a weakness for Cheetos. I like ginger ale.
Stefanie Gertz - Reading Interventionist
Coming from: Everett Public Schools.
Fun fact: I have a three-legged dog named Bucky.
Favorite quote: “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”-The Little Prince
Favorites: Color is green, my favorite food is French toast, my favorite snack is grapes, and my favorite drink is iced coffee!
Jeannie Coutant - 7th Grade ELA
Coming from: Arlington, MA
Fun Fact: I worked at Disney World for a brief period.
Favorite Quote: “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard.” - Neil Gaiman, on writing.
Favorites: Color-Royal Blue, Foods: Macaroni and Cheese; my mother's Pumpkin Bread recipe
Jessica Andrews - Art
Coming from: Youth and Family Programming with Smithsonian Associates at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Fun fact: I swing dance and lindy hop!
Favorite quote: "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Favorites:Color: coral + myrtle green next to each other Food: Smoked lox, cream cheese, and capers on an everything NY bagel. Snack: banana + peanut butter
drink: If I have to choose something other than coffee, ginger tea
George Kazarian - Guidance Counselor
Coming from: Emily G. Wetherbee School in Lawrence last year.
Fun fact: I am a Star Wars fan, and have recently met Anthony Daniels who played C-3PO at Boston FanExpo.
Favorite Quote:
“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
- Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
Favorites: color is sky blue
Favorite food is spaghetti & meatballs from New Brothers in Danvers, snack is a tie between the caramel choco trail mix & peanut butter trail mix from Publix, Diet peach iced tea Snapple
Christopher Aparo - 7th Grade Math
Coming from: Keefe Tech in Framingham.
Fun fact: I used to work at Gillette Stadium yet I've never attended a Pats game.
Favorite quote: "Is benevolence really so far away? No sooner do I desire it than it is here." - Confucius.
Favorites: color is green, food is lamb, snack is cheese, and drink is horchata.
Laura Morse - School Clerk
This is my 2nd year with Butler Middle School!
Fun fact: I Love nature, I love being outdoors.
Quote: I believe Everything happens for a reason.
Favorites: color is teal blue (or anything bright!)
Zulaika Brens - Paraprofessional
Coming From: Community Teamwork Inc.
Fun fact: I was part of the last graduating 8th-grade class at the old Butler Middle School.
Favorite quote: “By any means necessary “ Malcolm X.
Favorite food: anything from the ocean (especially lobsters and oysters). I am also a coffee snob.
Supriya Kothari- Library Specialist
Coming From:The Wang
Fun fact: I can make Henna tattoos.
Favorite Quote: Two wrongs do not make a right
Favorites: Color is blue, Shahi paneer( Indian), Pirate's booty, and Black pearl bobba tea from Gong Cha.