Sara Heather Peyton, a history teacher at Rowan County High School and a 2024 Kentucky Teacher Achievement Award winner, has spent 13 years in the classroom. She started her career at Leestown Middle (Fayette County) in 1998, but after three years teaching, she spent the next decade at home with her family.
Sally Zaring is an active member of the Shelby County area and has been making strides to improve the wellbeing of her community for more than two decades.
David McCoy, the lead welding teacher at Pleasure Ridge Park High School (Jefferson County), has taken the program from its beginning in an old locker room to a bustling program with 141 students in just six years.
After 24 years in education, Willie Foster is taking on a new role as Spencer County’s superintendent. He’s also making the transition from a large school district to a smaller one, a change he said he embraces.
Twenty-seven school counselors have been named as new members of the 2023-2024 School Counselor Advisory Council, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) announced on July 24.
Charlie Brock is Estill County’s new superintendent of schools.
Justin Padgett, former instructional coach at Lincoln County Middle School, was named the new director of student life at Kentucky School for the Deaf (KSD) on July 11.
Mark Wade is taking the helm in Boyle County schools as superintendent with excitement and confidence.
David McCoy, a welding teacher at Pleasure Ridge Park High School (Jefferson County), has been named one of 50 finalists for the prestigious Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence.
Summer jobs have been giving students an opportunity to gain valuable life experiences since the word “teenager” was coined. The Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB) launched its summer work program in 1994 to give blind and visually impaired students the same kind of opportunities.