Three-man show
Students at Fayette County's School for Creative and Performing Arts at Bluegrass prepare to put on Mozart's one-act opera, "Bastien und Bastienne," which Mozart wrote when he was only 12 years old.
Fayette FRYSC coordinator wins local Rotary award
Monica Hall Monica Hall, the family resource and youth services center coordinator (FRYSC) at Booker T. Washington Elementary School (Fayette County), has been awarded the Humanitarian Cup by the Rotary Club of Lexington. The annual award goes to an individual who exemplifies Rotary’s primary tenant of “service above self.” The club presented Hall with an engraved silver cup [...]
Science you can smell
As the students walk into Jacob Ball's lab at the Locust Trace AgriScience Center in Lexington, they're met with tables of food – old food.
Students write the law at Kentucky Youth Assembly
While the 2017 session of the Kentucky General Assembly may have just started, state policymakers already have some new suggestions in their inboxes thanks to students from the Kentucky YMCA Youth Assembly.
Berea puts on training for regional arts specialists
The City of Berea/Tourism offered a two-day conference for KDE's new regional arts specialists, allowing them time to collaborate as they attended sessions focused on implementing the new arts standards in dance, media arts, music, theater, visual arts and Program Review.
Incorporating the math practice standards for students
The 8 Mathematical Practices are considered the behaviors that all teachers should try to elicit from their students in order to help make them stronger mathematicians and problem solvers.
Kentucky CTE demonstrates award-winning leadership
Kentucky’s national leadership in Career and Technical Education (CTE) was recognized recently with several awards presented at the Career Tech Vision 2016 Conference, and the accompanying conferences of the National Association of Agriculture Educators and the National Association of Teachers of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Fayette elementary science teacher honored by KSTA
Kim Sword Kim Sword, the STEM lab teacher at William Wells Brown Elementary School (Fayette County), has been named the 2016 Elementary School Science Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Science Teachers Association. She was honored Nov. 11 at the KSTA annual conference in Lexington. Sword earned a bachelor’s degree from Midway College and a master’s degree [...]
Fayette health and PE teacher wins two KAHPERD awards
Angela Stark, the health and physical education teacher for the School for the Creative and Performing Arts at Bluegrass (Fayette County), has received two state-level awards from the Kentucky Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (KAHPERD). She was named Secondary Physical Education Teacher of the Year and accepted the Distinguished Service Award during its annual conference Nov. 13-15 [...]
KASL names new executive board
Renee Hale, library media specialist at Drakes Creek Middle School (Warren County) and the 2016-17 president of the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, shares her thoughts about where she thinks school libraries are headed.