Matt Helton, a social studies teacher at Henry Clay High School (Fayette County), is the Kentucky Youth Assembly’s 2015 Adviser Hall of Fame inductee. Helton was honored at a the KYA conferences last fall, where students from more than 250 middle and high schools participated in a three-day experiential learning program in which students serve as part of a model [...]
Doug Grider, a guidance counselor at Southwestern High School (Pulaski County) is presented with the Kentucky Counseling Association's 2015 Outstanding High School Counselor Award by KCA President Naomi BrahimPhoto submitted Doug Grider, the guidance counselor at Southwestern High School (Pulaski County) was named the 2015 Outstanding High School Counselor by the Kentucky Counseling Association at its annual conference [...]
Three Kentucky secondary school hospitality programs have been named to the 2016 Elite 50, an annual selection of the top 50 secondary school hospitality programs nationwide by the National Center for Hospitality Studies at Sullivan University. The programs recognized, along with their instructors: Arvin Education Center (Oldham County), Garrett Sanborn Bourbon County High School, Jill Hurt Whitley County High School, [...]
The Fayette County Education Association (FCEA) has awarded a $500 American Education Week scholarship to Carlos Bess, a behavioral curriculum specialist at Martin Luther King Jr. Academy for Excellence. The award goes to an FCEA member who is pursuing a Rank 2, Rank 1, doctorate or National Board certification. The FCEA also presented five $250 classroom grants to teachers in [...]
Donald Fleu, director of finance for Boyd County Public Schools, received the Goldenrod Outstanding School Business Official Award given annually by the Kentucky Association of School Business Officials (KASBO). The award goes to an individual who best represents exemplary practices and standards of school business in a Kentucky public school district. Fleu served three years on KASBO’s board of directors [...]
Sam Simpson, the football coach and a health and physical education teacher at Henry Clay High School (Fayette County), has been named a recipient of the Caring Coach of the Year award presented by Dove Men+Care Deodorant and the College Football Hall of Fame.Photo submitted Sam Simpson, the football coach and a health and physical education teacher at [...]
The Ashland Family Resource and Youth Services Center (Ashland Independent) has been named the winner of the Harry J. Cowherd Award for Center Excellence by the Family Resource and Youth Services Centers (FRYSC) network. The award, presented last week at the network’s annual Fall Institute in Lexington, recognizes a center that demonstrates excellence beyond regular center operations. It is named [...]
Alicia Henning of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fayette County) has been named Drama Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Theatre Association. Henning was honored last week during the Kentucky Theatre Association’s high school festival in Bowling Green. Henning received a bachelor’s degree in theater from Western Kentucky University and worked professionally in theater around the country before becoming [...]
Campbell County High School Assistant Principal Michael Florimonte, front right, receives the Financial Literacy Teacher of the Year award from Kentucky Jump$tart President Kelly May in front of the Campbell County Board of Education.Photo submitted, Nov. 9, 2015. Michael Florimonte of Campbell County High School has been named the 2015 Financial Literacy Teacher of the Year by The [...]
Rachel Rice of Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) has been named the 2015 School Psychologist of the Year by the Kentucky Association for Psychology in the Schools. Rice, who will be the state nominee for the national school psychologist of the year award, also received a Best Practices Award at October’s state conference in Louisville. “Being a school psychologist [...]