Kentucky Teacher

Cindy Hudson, the secretary at Daviess County High School in Daviess County, has been chosen as the 2013 recipient of the Kentucky Association of School Administrators’ prestigious Wanda Luttrell Office Professional Award.

Named in honor of KASA’s longtime office manager, the award has been presented annually since 1981 to a member of Kentucky’s educational support staff who has contributed significantly to the efforts of the administrative team and who exhibits resourcefulness, commitment, professionalism, and a positive attitude.

Daviess County Assistant Superintendent, Julie Clark, describes Hudson in this way, “Cindy is charged with an unimaginable number of responsibilities.  Despite bearing the weight of all these responsibilities, Mrs. Hudson always stops what she is doing when a student, a teacher, a parent, or a visitor walks into her office for help or to see the principal.”  She goes on to describe Hudson as a “…self-motivated learner whose thirst for knowledge is obvious.” Read the full story

Fifty-four Kentucky school districts will participate in a field test of the proposed Teacher and Principal Professional Growth and Effectiveness System this school year.
The proposed system will help define expectations of what it means to be an effective teacher and leader, and provide support, assistance and resources to help all educators reach that goal.
During the 2010-11 school year, 23 districts began work on the system’s development, with an additionally 31 districts brought on this school year to take part in the field-testing phase.
The original 23 school districts included: Anderson County, Bullitt County, Caldwell County, Carlisle County, Carter County, Corbin Independent, Covington Independent, Frankfort Independent, Fleming County, Gallatin County, Garrard County, Graves County, Greenup County, Henderson County, Jenkins Independent, Jessamine County, Kenton County, Lee County, Marion County, Marshall County, Magoffin County, Simpson County and Washington County. Read the full story