Kentucky Milken Educator Award winner brings agriculture to Fayette County
Being at the right place at the right time is a saying Jacob Ball, a 6th-12th grade agriculture teacher at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County), believes he is living.
Being at the right place at the right time is a saying Jacob Ball, a 6th-12th grade agriculture teacher at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County), believes he is living.
Stories like that of Macgregor Hansgen, a Special Olympics athlete, show the importance of Special Olympics Kentucky (SOKY) and its Unified Champion Schools program.
Clinton County’s Supervisor of Instruction Stacey Evans says this school year has been the first one implementing the six components of the Kentucky Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) fully into the district’s schools.
It’s been nearly a year since Letcher County Director of Instruction Ronny Goins and Instructional Facilitator Amber Stewart started working on integrating a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) into the district’s schools.
MTSS is an effort to support student achievement and social-emotional behavioral competencies through an integration of core instruction, assessment and intervention.
Being able to interact with students on a daily basis was one of the requirements Tabetha Housekeeper, the new superintendent of Williamsburg Independent, said she needed in order for her to take the position.
Students from all over the state gathered at the Kentucky State Capitol on Sept. 19 for an opportunity to present their computer science projects to legislators.
Estes has served as the interim superintendent since June 1. He was appointed as the permanent superintendent at a special Board of Education meeting and began his new role on Aug. 17.
Every day in Kumar Rashad’s classroom is a call for urgency. “Many of my students have died or got shot and killed,” said Rashad, a mathematics teacher at Breckinridge Metropolitan High School in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), an alternative school with students who have been in the criminal justice system.
Kevin Dailey was never supposed to be a teacher. As a child, he had hopes of being an architect, taking an idea and forging it into something that would last forever. “As a child of divorce and of economic insecurity, not much was expected of me at school,” said Dailey, a at Ballyshannon Middle School (Boone County). “I would finish school, then I would paint houses like my dad and his dad before him.”