There is a new person leading the Greene County Middle School staff this year.

Cara Osborne is a Boone, Iowa native and graduated from Boone High School in 2003. She earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary and middle level education from the University of Northern Iowa. Osborne went on to earn a master’s degree from Buena Vista University before heading to a school in Georgia to teach seventh grade, then moved to Kentucky and taught kindergarten at a school, along with fourth grade. Then she moved to Tennessee and taught fourth grade math and was an instructional coach. She also finished her administrator’s degree while in Tennessee.  

Osborne tells Raccoon Valley Radio when she and her family made the decision to come back to Iowa to be closer to family, she was looking for administrator jobs and saw the available Greene County Middle School Principal position and she describes what sold her about it during her in person interview.

“Just being here for the second one, I felt like I was home again. All the different panels from my interview, I really felt like this was home again for me. And so (I) felt like this was going to be the right fit for me career-wise and for our family to kind of reroot ourselves back in Iowa.”    

Osborne says a main focus for her first year as the new middle school principal is developing core values for the building, from the students, to staff, to parents with surveys to find out what everyone thinks the values should be. 

“So when we build the core values of Greene County Middle School we’re going to have all stakeholders hands in it. And by doing that I really feel like then everybody has buy-in and that we are all united and we are all a part of the same team. I think that’s really important that the students see that the parents and us, as teachers, we are all unified, and that we’re all just here for the betterment of them.” 

Osborne is looking forward to meeting with everyone and getting to know all of the middle school students.