Kaitlyn Reges creates a support system for Butler educators
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this series aim to showcase what it’s like to live, work, play and serve in Butler County during this moment in history.
Kaitlyn Reges’s role with Butler Area School District isn’t typical.
While the district’s teachers might be the ones giving the lessons, Reges is the support system behind the educators, offering them innovative ways to reach today’s students.
Reges is the school district’s personal learning facilitator, a position she’s held for the last two years. In the role, she works with teachers to help personalize their instruction and learning opportunities to improve student engagement.
In this position, Reges does everything.
From trainings in gamification and other active learning strategies to creating a website and a resource of tools for teachers across the district to use to help them understand the district’s personalized learning teacher evaluation system, she offers professional development support.
She holds sessions on Tuesday and Thursday, offering guidance to teachers either one-on-one, in small groups or by department.
Additionally, she is working to help innovate the way students absorb the information they are learning.
“With the way that technology is now, I can have things created and developed,” she said. “The prep time is reduced.”
Reges works to enable teachers to use generative AI and other modern technology to develop lessons that get away from students regurgitating material and instead helping to build fluency and mastery in students.
“We also have technology that we can do research from our Chromebooks, or we can do online textbooks,” she said. “The kids can make and be more creative with the different things that they have. You can develop your own podcast, you can develop your own video, you can develop your own presentation.”
Though it often does deal heavily in technology, Reges was adamant that the personalized learning position isn’t just technology.
“I don’t want to replace quality teaching with technology,” she said. “It’s a tool that really can open up our opportunities as educators to provide quality instruction in a variety of different methods and techniques.”
Reges acts as a nonevaluative force. She’s a support system for Butler school district teachers, going into classrooms, observing and providing feedback. She’s worked with the district for about 18 years.
She originally worked as an itinerant special education teacher at Butler Intermediate High School. Reges later moved up to Butler Senior High School, where she has worked for most of her career as a special-education teacher with a math focus.
Now, for the last two years, she has worked as the personalized learning facilitator.
“Personalized learning has been my entire career,” Reges said of working with students with Individualized Education Programs in special education.
“I get just as much joy out of doing personalized learning lessons for my students as I do helping my peers develop things for them.”
In all her roles with the district, Reges has been an advocate for accessibility.
Yet, she never gave up her work with special education. She helps to advise the Best Buddies club.
Best Buddies International is a program at Butler’s senior high and intermediate high with the mission of ending the social, physical and emotional isolation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The club at the senior high school has about 100 to 150 members.
Reges coaches the Unified Bocce club at the senior high school as well.
Butler is a recognized Special Olympics National Unified Champion School.
