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NyRee Clayton-Taylor discusses how to analyze a story with her class at Phillis Wheatley Elementary School (Jefferson County). Clayton-Taylor was named the 2019 Kentucky Elementary School Teacher of the Year. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 1, 2018

Kentucky Elementary Teacher of the Year joins KDE

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Nyree Clayton-Taylor is expanding her perspective during a one-semester sabbatical with the Kentucky Department of Education.
Brianna Guy, left, took every class offered by former Bell County High School family and consumer sciences teacher Rosemary Jones. Now Guy, a student at Western Kentucky University, hopes to follow in Jones’ footsteps at the school, where the family and consumer sciences program was suspended this year upon Jones’ retirement. Guy said Jones’ classes gave her a place to fit in at school, and she came to appreciate the curriculum she hopes to teach. Photo submitted

‘It teaches you life’

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A retired family and consumer sciences teacher from Bell County was honored by the Association for Career and Technical Education with a community service award.
Shelby Frazier, the senior class president at Frederick Douglass High School (Fayette County), shows visitors to the school a banner signed by members of the current freshman class as part of a commitment to graduation ceremony that will be displayed at their graduation in 2022. Freshmen at the three schools that are part of the Academies of Lexington are in their own academies that offer personal and career exploration and serve to help students make the transition from middle school to high school. Photo by Megan Gross, Dec. 3, 2018

A partnership to prepare students

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Three Fayette County high schools are offering career academies designed to prepare students for life after high school and to provide the type of workforce local business and industry is seeking.
Students in Angela Page’s creek class at Louisville Male High School (Jefferson County) take to Beargrass Creek in canoes as they perform water quality tests on the Ohio River tributary. Page’s class exposes students to work in chemistry, forestry, botany and other disciplines. Students in Angela Page’s creek class take to Beargrass Creek in canoes as they perform water quality tests on the Ohio River tributary. Page’s class exposes students to work in chemistry, forestry, botany and other disciplines. Photo submitted

Advanced learning at the water’s edge

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A Jefferson County teacher gives her students a close look at the results of human interactions with ecosystems in an advanced ecology class that places an emphasis on field study.
Commissioner of Education Wayne Lewis, left, talks with Fayette County superintendent Manny Caulk during a visit to Frederick Douglass High School (Fayette County). Lewis said he has always been in awe of great teaching, and that he looks for it during school visits. Photo by Megan Gross, Dec. 3, 2018

From Katrina to the commissioner’s office

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Wayne Lewis talks about some of the things that sparked his interest in education and educational leadership during his childhood and young adulthood and the path that led him to become Kentucky’s commissioner of education.
David Sandlin makes a point to student Cameryn McPherson during Sandlin’s financial literacy class at Walton-Verona High School (Walton-Verona Independent). Sandlin, who worked as an investment consultant prior to becoming a teacher, will serve on both a business and education advisory panel and a standards revision and writing committee during the process of developing financial literacy standards. Photo by Megan Gross, Nov. 19, 2018

Paving the path to financial literacy

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The Kentucky Department of Education is developing standards to be used in a new graduation requirement for financial literacy.
Greenlee Resch, a freshman from Tates Creek High School (Fayette County), gets the chance to look at specimens under a microscope. Photo by Megan Gross, Nov. 5,2018

Students explore future jobs at Career Expo in Lexington

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For my first photo blog at the Kentucky Department of Education, I recently went to the 2nd annual Academies of Lexington Career Expo over in Fayette County.
David Horseman, the associate commissioner of the Office of Career and Technical Education at the Kentucky Department of Education, said one of the most significant changes he has seen during his 24 years in career and technical education is a greater awareness of the role of CTE within the larger education community. Horseman, who has been at KDE since 2014, was named associate commissioner this summer. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 30, 2018

‘A really exciting time’ to be in CTE

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David Horseman, the new associate commissioner of KDE’s Office of Career and Technical Education, said changes will continue to come to career and technical education.
Jordan Tedrow, left, a welding instructor at Marion County Area Technology Center, watches as student Brianna Yolcum works. Yolcum is part of a group of 8th-grade students from Marion County Knight Academy who are taking a semester-long class at the ATC that gives them an up-close look at the school's advanced manufacturing pathway. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 15, 2018

A head start down a career pathway

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Marion County Area Technology Center is offering 8th-grade students a hands-on preview of its advanced manufacturing and Project Lead the Way curricula through a pair of elective classes.
Elizabeth Forbes shows Sam Garbin, left, and Abby Adams-Smith brood cells inside of the honey bee hive. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 27, 2018

The buzz around bees

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Elizabeth Forbes, a school psychologist, has been a beekeeper since 2009. She has been the head of the Bowling Green High School beekeeping program since helping to get it started in 2012. 
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