School bus drivers: The link between communities and schools
The biggest responsibility for drivers: being the first person from the school district students talk to each day. It’s a role they don’t take lightly.
Kentucky school resource officers build relationships while ensuring safety
School resources officers (SROs) across Kentucky play a critical role in keeping schools and students safe. But their role is a unique and dynamic one, of law enforcement and security while building relationships with the students they help protect.
‘We’re all in’: How schools across Kentucky are using project-based learning to transform classroom experiences
Thanks to $7 million in financial support from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, the Kentucky Department of Education has a multi-year partnership with PBLWorks to scale high-quality PBL to one-third of Kentucky’s public schools by 2024.
New Perry County superintendent, veteran school administrator, relying on “family atmosphere” to help move district forward
Perry County Schools is under new leadership. Kent Campbell, who grew up and attended school in the community, started serving as the district's new superintendent at the beginning of the year.
The power of role-playing games for deeper learning experiences
Three Kentucky educators are using role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons, to enrich student learning experiences.
Bowling Green Independent Schools meets refugee, migrant families where they are with Teranga Academy
Teranga Academy (Bowling Green Independent Schools) is designed to support teens and their families who are new to the United States and to American schools. The academy is open to Bowling Green Junior High and Bowling Green High School students who have been in the United States for three years or less, are multilingual and have had their formal education interrupted.
Transcending education, one Garrard County school cultivates culture of health
Patrick Kennedy, a health and physical education teaching position at rural Camp Dick Robinson (CDR) Elementary (Garrard County), decided to take on a project that would forever alter the school: the promotion of a health-based culture.
‘Hope and action’: How UK and Fayette County Schools are building the Kentucky teacher workforce
By the time Brie Stalker graduated from the University of Kentucky (UK), she had already been working and learning at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County) for two years. She couldn’t imagine teaching anywhere else.
Early intervention as a child was key for Kentucky Milken Educator Award winner Buskill
With Charlotte Buskill's mother, grandmother and two sisters all educators, she felt she was destined to join the “family business.” “My whole younger childhood was filled with the love of being in a school building,” she said. Now in her sixth year as an educator, Buskill has been at Newton Parrish Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) since 2016. Her ability to ensure the success of every student was recognized by the Milken Family Foundation, which honored her as a Milken Educator Award winner in a surprise ceremony on Nov. 10 at the school.
Leslie County teen becomes youngest known Kentuckian elected to office
During the pandemic, Logan Sizemore began growing food in the family garden to help the community in Leslie County.
