Special Recognition

Warren County ATC to receive national award

The Warren County Area Technology Center (ATC) has been named a winner of the Excellence in Action award from Advance CTE, a national nonprofit career and technical education organization. The school’s automotive technology program will be recognized in the transportation and logistics career cluster. The On Track car-building program, a partnership with the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce in [...]

By |2017-03-08T12:00:43-05:00March 9, 2017|

Fayette high school teacher receives service award

Kelly Mayes Kelly Mayes of Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) has received the 2017 Outstanding Service Award from the Kentucky chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Mayes has worked five years at Bryan Station, where she is assistant orchestra director and co-leader of the StationARTS program. She also teaches 4th- and 5th-grade orchestra at Cardinal Valley [...]

By |2017-03-01T10:28:53-05:00March 2, 2017|

Fayette elementary teacher honored by KMEA

Lisse Lawson Lisse Lawson of Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County) has been named the 2017 Elementary Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Music Educators Association. Lawson is in her 13th year as general music teacher and chorus director at Rosa Parks. Overall, she has taught 24 years in Fayette, Bourbon and Jessamine counties. In addition to [...]

By |2017-03-01T10:27:50-05:00March 2, 2017|

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 [...]

By |2020-04-02T10:45:28-04:00February 2, 2017|

Pulaski counselor honored by Kentucky Counseling Association

Sallie Pierce, right, a guidance counselor at Southern Elementary School (Pulaski County), receives her award from Kentucky Counseling Association President Tammy Hurst after being named KCA's 2016 Outstanding Elementary School Counselor.Photo submitted Sallie Pierce, a guidance counselor at Southern Elementary School (Pulaski County), was named the 2016 Outstanding Elementary School Counselor by the Kentucky Counseling Association. Pierce has [...]

By |2017-01-04T11:28:32-05:00January 5, 2017|

Four Pulaski staff members honored by district

Four staff members from Pulaski County schools were recently given the district's PRISM Award, which recognizes staff members who have demonstrated innovative techniques and strategies that support student success and welfare. Recipients are (left to right) Kathy Molen, Oak Hill Elementary School; Doug Grider, Southwestern High School; Jeannie Smith, Northern Middle School; and Courtney Frye, Nancy Elementary School.Photo submitted [...]

By |2016-11-23T08:57:49-05:00November 23, 2016|

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 [...]

By |2016-11-23T09:15:48-05:00November 23, 2016|

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 [...]

By |2019-10-30T15:56:21-04:00November 23, 2016|

Kenton student a national winner in school bus safety poster contest

Megan Rust, a 5th-grade student at River Ridge Elementary School (Kenton County), won the computer assisted division of the 2016 National School Bus Safety Poster Contest with this entry.Photo submitted Megan Rust, a 5th-grade student at River Ridge Elementary School (Kenton County), has been named a winner in the 2016 National School Bus Safety Poster Contest. Rust won [...]

By |2016-11-17T09:33:12-05:00November 17, 2016|

Bullitt teacher named elementary PE teacher of the year

Dennis Minnis Dennis Minnis, a physical education teacher at North Bullitt High School (Bullitt County), has been named the 2016 Elementary School Physical Education Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (KAHPERD). Minnis spent 12 years at Bullitt County’s Maryville Elementary School before moving to North Bullitt High this summer. [...]

By |2019-10-30T15:56:01-04:00November 3, 2016|
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