Amanda Hurley of Henry Clay High School (Fayette County), was named the Kentucky Outstanding School Media Librarian by the Kentucky Association of School Librarians at its annual conference in September. Other KASL award winners honored included: Rachel Burgin, Henry County High School, School Library Web Site Award Emily Northcutt and Annette Jones, LeGrande Elementary School (Hart County), Donna Hornsby Joint [...]
The Crafts Luminary exhibit sponsored by the Kentucky Craft History and Education Association (KCHEA) and presented at ArtsPlace in Lexington offers teachers an opportunity to address the Kentucky Academic Standards in the Visual Arts (creating, presenting, responding, and connecting) as they engage students in exploring artworks by contemporary Kentuckians. Teachers may take their students on a field trip to ArtsPlace [...]
Laura Roché, a French teacher at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County) is the 2015 recipient of the Kentucky World Language Association Outstanding Teacher Award. She received the award Sept. 26 at the KWLA annual conference in Louisville. Roché is in her 24th year of teaching French. She has spent the past six years at Beaumont Middle after having taught at [...]
To mark the district's anniversary, the Hopewell Museum is featuring a special exhibit called, "Paris Schools: 150 Years of Academic Excellence."
Beechwood Elementary, Bush Elementary, Murray High School and The School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Fayette County are among 335 public and private, elementary, middle and high schools across the country recognized by the U. S. Department of Education as 2015 National Blue Ribbon Schools
School districts across Kentucky have saved more than $2 million by analyzing what they do and how they do it.
Teachers learn new ideas to keep students interested at the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education’s annual conference.
Kentucky is among a group of 17 states that committed to develop and execute a detailed plan to implement recommendations made in a report by the Council of Chief State School Officers Career Readiness Task Force
The Kentucky Board of Education voted Sept. 23 to extend an offer of employment to Stephen L. Pruitt to become Kentucky’s sixth commissioner of education.
High School Mathematics Day for Women will be held Nov. 7 on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington. This free event is designed to introduce female high school students to the options available to those who study mathematics and to introduce them to mathematics outside the standard high school curriculum. The event is open to girls in grades 9-12, [...]