Bradley tapped to replace Salas as HMS principal

By CARBON SCHOOL DISTRICT

Robert Bradley is familiar with Helper Middle School. He taught there for eight years before going to Carbon High four years ago.
Now he says he is going “home.”
Bradley was named the new principal of HMS, replacing Mika Salas who started working in administration at the school district central office July 1.
“I am really excited because I have so much familiarity with what is going on at the school,” said Bradley. “I just want to keep doing the good things that they are doing there.”
Bradley has long been known for his work with kids and other teachers, particularly on technology. Now he gets to go back and head up the faculty.
Bradley is not a life long educator, but instead came from a different industry a number of years ago.
Bradley was a military kid, his father an the Air Force member. He was born in Texas but ended up in his teenage years in Layton and graduated from Layton High School. He then went to work in the IT industry.
Eventually he went to Weber State University and got a Bachelors degree, with the intention of becoming a science teacher.
“Kristen Taylor (who was a teacher at the time in the district and is now on the Carbon Board of Education) was at a recruiting fair I went to at the University of Utah,” he said. “She suggested that I come down to see what was going on. Carbon actually has an excellent offering for new teachers; they are quite competitive with other districts in the state. And the county is very affordable, especially for someone who is starting out later in their career and has a family.”
That was in 2007 and he went to work in Helper.
He later got his administrative certificate in 2015 from Western Governors University, the same year he moved to teach science at Carbon High School. It was during that final year at Helper that the district experimented with one-on-one devices with students. Bradley was a part of that.
“That whole thing also actually morphed into the creation of the Tech Cafe,” he said of a program that is set up where teachers can attend a session two evenings a week at the district’s technology center to learn about recent developments and get training.