Tim Hitzfield Tim Hitzfield, the principal of Conner High School (Boone County), was named the 2013 School Administrator of the Year by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA). The announcement was made recently during the organization’s annual leadership institute in Louisville.Another Boone County Schools staff member, Deputy Superintendent Karen Cheser, was named the District Administrator of the [...]
Randy Poe strives to make sure students in his district are prepared for college, career and life.
Randy Poe, superintendent of Boone County Schools, has been selected as the 2013 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators. Poe will now compete for the National Superintendent of the Year Award given by the American Association of School Administrators. Poe was presented the award on Nov. 26 during a surprise ceremony at the Longbranch Elementary School [...]
Civil War lessons are timely as 150th anniversary is commemorated in Kentucky.
Boone County Board of Education member C. Ed Massey was named the 65th president of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) at the association’s Annual Conference in Boston recently. David A. Pickler of Tennessee’s Shelby County school district was elected president-elect and Anne M. Byrne of New York’s Nanuet Union Free school district was elected secretary-treasurer by NSBA’s [...]
A minute per question. That’s the time I was given to answer 120 multiple-choice questions on my Praxis test this morning.
Kathleen Reutman Bryant received the third annual Dr. Johnnie Grissom Award (Strive for Achievement Through Instructional Equity) from the Kentucky Board of Education on Wednesday.
Preparing students to cucceed in college and the workplace is critically important, says Kentucky Teacher of the Year.
The Elementary School Teacher of the Year Elizabeth Ann Fuller, Kentucky Teacher of the Year Kimberly Shearer, and the Middle School Teacher of the Year Jenni Lou Jackson pose with their awards during the 2012 Ashland Inc. Teacher Achievement Awards. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 18, 2011 Kimberly Shearer, an English teacher at Boone County High School, has [...]
Three teachers from around the state talk about what led them to the profession and what keeps them there.