Special Recognition

Fayette social worker receives statewide award

Shericka Smith Shericka Smith, a social worker at Tates Creek High School (Fayette County), has been named Kentucky’s 2016 School Social Worker of the Year. Smith received the award Oct. 20 during the Kentucky Association of School Social Work (KASSW) conference in Frankfort and will be recognized at the Midwest School Social Work conference Oct. 27-28 in Lisle, [...]

By |2016-10-26T12:16:47-04:00October 27, 2016|

Two KET programs win national awards

Kentucky Educational Television (KET) received two awards from the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) at NETA’s recent annual professional development conference in Baltimore. “News Quiz,” KET’s long-running current events program aimed at students in grades 4-8, won a 2016 NETA award in the instructional media – broadcast program category. “Exploraciones,” KET’s new multimedia collection of online tools for teaching Spanish [...]

By |2016-10-20T09:13:01-04:00October 20, 2016|

Fayette principal part of Class of National Distinguished Principals

Lynn T. Poe, the principal at Julius Marks Elementary School (Fayette County) has been recognized by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) as part of its 2016 Class of National Distinguished Principals during National Principals Month. Poe has 13 years of experience as a principal and has spent the past three years at Julius Marks Elementary. She was [...]

By |2016-10-11T16:01:11-04:00October 13, 2016|

Nelson, Rowan teachers receive environmental awards

Teachers from Nelson and Rowan counties were honored by the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE) as two of its six Excellence in Environmental Education Awards. Kathy Miller, a 2nd- and 3rd-grade teacher at Cox’s Creek Elementary School (Nelson County), was named the first winner of the Mary Kathryn Dickerson Outstanding Educator of the Year award. Jennifer Pecco, a 6th-grade [...]

By |2016-09-28T10:30:44-04:00September 29, 2016|

Fayette teacher honored by Mental Floss magazine

Keith Lindsay, a 5th-grade social studies and language arts teacher at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts at Bluegrass (Fayette County), is among 10 Platypus Award winners honored by Mental Floss magazine.Photo submitted Keith Lindsay, a 5th-grade social studies and language arts teacher at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts at Bluegrass, is among [...]

By |2016-09-21T14:24:50-04:00September 22, 2016|

16 schools receive National Healthy Schools Award

Sixteen Kentucky schools have been named winners of the National Healthy Schools Award by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The awards were announced recently by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national organization founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation whose goal is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and to empower children to [...]

By |2016-09-14T15:28:53-04:00September 15, 2016|

Fayette science teacher receives Mensa award

Susan McLaughlin-Jones, a science teacher at Lafayette High School (Fayette County), has received the 2016 Copper Black Award for Creative Achievement from the Mensa Foundation. The Mensa Foundation judges were impressed with McLaughlin-Jones’ development of Culturally Engaging Instruction (CEI) – a successful teaching strategy to address pervasive achievement gaps among students from diverse backgrounds. CEI, a model that emerged from [...]

By |2016-08-31T09:52:51-04:00September 1, 2016|

Four Kentucky teachers receive presidential honors

Four Kentucky mathematics and science teachers are among 213 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), which is awarded to outstanding K-12 science and mathematics teachers from across the country. Winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians and educators following an initial selection process at the state level. The PAEMST winners [...]

By |2016-09-15T10:11:31-04:00September 1, 2016|

Two receive Fayette County Education Association awards

Steven Riley, left, and Traci Gross Rust Two Fayette County teachers have received the 2016 FCEA Award for Teaching Excellence from the Fayette County Education Association. Steven Riley, a social studies teacher at Henry Clay High School, and Traci Gross Rust, a visual arts teacher at Arlington Elementary School, were chosen for the awards based on professional practice, [...]

By |2016-07-13T15:51:16-04:00July 14, 2016|
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