The Fayette County Public Schools Technology Department received the 2016 Lydia Wells Sledge MVP Award from the Kentucky Department of Education’s Office of Knowledge, Information and Data Systems. The award is given to a person or group of people who have made significant contributions to students using technology in Kentucky. The award is named for Sledge, a former director of [...]
Fayette County Public Schools has received a 2016 Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition.
Anna Sullinger Anna Sullinger, a family and consumer sciences teacher at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County) has been named the Kentucky Association of Family & Consumer Sciences’ 2016 Teacher of the Year. Sullinger has taught family and consumer Sciences for 10 years, including the past 1-1/2 at Beaumont, where she is the adviser for the school’s Family, Career and [...]
Sara Francis, who leads the orchestra at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School (Fayette County), has been named the 2016 Outstanding Director by the Kentucky chapter of the American String Teachers Association. The honor goes to a K-12 ensemble director who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and leadership. Francis has taught orchestra in Fayette County Public Schools for 14 years, including [...]
Lula Jean Thompson Burton, an elementary school guidance counselor at Eubank Elementary School (Pulaski County) was named the Mid-Cumberland Counselor of the Year by the Mid-Cumberland Counseling Organization. Photo submitted Lula Jean Thompson Burton, an elementary school guidance counselor at Eubank Elementary School (Pulaski County), has been named the Mid-Cumberland Counselor of the Year by the Mid-Cumberland Counseling [...]
Karen West, left, executive director of Redhound Enrichment, accepts the Dollar General Afterschool Literacy Award from Lindsey Sublett, community initiatives administrator with Dollar General Corporation at the National AfterSchool Association’s annual convention in Orlando, Fla.Photo submitted, March 20, 2016 Corbin Independent Schools’ Redhound Enrichment after-school program has received the Dollar General Afterschool Literacy Award for its excellence in [...]
Natasha Craft, Project Lead The Way Launch teacher at Pulaski Elementary School (Pulaski County), is presented with the award for Project Lead The Way Launch Instructor of the Year by Mark Harrell, director of school engagement, Midwest Region, Kentucky and Tennessee, and Doug Klein, University of Kentucky affiliate director, Project Lead The Way.Photo submitted Natasha Craft, the Project [...]
South Heights Elementary School (Henderson County) and Robert B. Turner Elementary School (Anderson County) were chosen as 2016 Model Schools by the International Center for Leadership in Education. Representatives from the two schools will present at the Model Schools Conference June 26-29 in Orlando, Fla. South Heights was chosen for the sixth consecutive year, the longest streak of any elementary [...]
Rita Taulbee, a 2nd-grade teacher at Lebanon Junction Elementary School (Bullitt County), has been named the Kentucky Agriculture/Literacy Teacher of the Year by Kentucky Farm Bureau. Taulbee, who is in her 13th year at Lebanon Junction Elementary and her 15th year overall in teaching, includes discussions about the importance of farming and farmers in her curriculum. She and her students [...]
Matt Helton, a social studies teacher at Henry Clay High School (Fayette County), is the Kentucky Youth Assembly’s 2015 Adviser Hall of Fame inductee. Helton was honored at a the KYA conferences last fall, where students from more than 250 middle and high schools participated in a three-day experiential learning program in which students serve as part of a model [...]