Highlands High School (Fort Thomas Independent) has won the state championship in the We the People…The Citizen and the Constitution civic education competition and will compete for the national title from April 30-May 2.
Belfry Middle School (Pike County) was recently recognized as a as a 2010 Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School of Excellence by the Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence, Inc. Belfry Middle is the first public middle school in Kentucky to receive the award. Representatives from the school recently traveled to Orlando to receive the award.
Karen Witemyre, a science teacher at Ockerman Middle School (Boone County) was recently named a winner of the Great Science Teacher Video Contest at the USA Science & Engineering Festival. The contest is sponsored by ENGINEERING.com and Dassault Systemes. […]
At the recent annual meeting of the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE), Cheryl Messenger was named Environmental Education Individual of 2010. Messenger is the director of environmental education at Mammoth Cave National Park. […]
Kathie Hickey is the newest president for the Kentucky Council on Economic Education (KCEE), the state’s only non-profit organization to provide professional development to K-16 educators in economic, financial and entrepreneurial education. Jan Mester, who has served as president since May 2002 and on the council for 25 years, retired Aug. 31. Mester will continue to serve as a program [...]
Richard Hall, an employee of Floyd County school district, has been selected as the 2010 National School Transportation Association (NSTA) first place winner in the School Bus Driver International Safety Competition held in St. Louis. In addition, the Floyd County school district was presented with an employer award for employing the first place winner in the small bus class competition. [...]