Four elementary schools and three middle schools in Bullitt County have been awarded Project Lead The Way grants funded by the Bemis Company Foundation. Hebron, Mount Washington and Zoneton middle schools will receive $20,000 each over the next two years in PLTW Gateway grants. Cedar Grove, Crossroads, Lebanon Junction and Shepherdsville elementary schools will receive $7,500 each for two years [...]
Three Bullitt County schools – Overdale and Roby elementary schools and Bernheim Middle School – have earned Gold Status for their Student Technology Leadership Program for the first time after meeting specific criteria and providing evidence of their service and achievement to a panel of judges. STLP schools that reach Gold Status may submit additional projects to STLP district competitions. [...]
A cooperative atmosphere helps Bullitt County teachers create new ways for students to explore.
Darrell Vincent, a Project Lead The Way (PLTW) teacher at Bullitt East High School (Bullitt County), has been selected as a Project Lead The Way master teacher. Vincent, who has taught in Bullitt East’s PLTW engineering program for two years, was one of 90 teachers selected from more than 150 applicants to be apprentice master teachers. These first-year master teachers [...]
Rita Taulbee, a 2nd-grade teacher at Lebanon Junction Elementary School (Bullitt County), has been named the Kentucky Agriculture/Literacy Teacher of the Year by Kentucky Farm Bureau. Taulbee, who is in her 13th year at Lebanon Junction Elementary and her 15th year overall in teaching, includes discussions about the importance of farming and farmers in her curriculum. She and her students [...]
Six Kentucky public school districts have been named to the 6th Annual Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Roll, the College Board has announced.
Ten Kentucky public school teachers have been selected as finalists for the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Jennifer Wooley of Bullitt County Schools has been elected president of the Kentucky Association of School Human Resource Managers (KASHRM). Wooley has spent 23 years in public education as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal and director of human resources. She spent six years in Hardin County at Meadow View Elementary School before moving to Bullitt County. She is also [...]
The state’s top alternative programs are doing all they can to help students graduate college- and career-ready and to change the perception of alternative programs.
By Amy Wallot amy.wallot@education.ky.gov I have covered many professional development opportunities this summer. What I heard over and over from the hosts and presenters was, “please contact me if you have any questions.” Please contact me. Over and over. Presenters offered their email address and phone numbers. They repeated that teachers could contact their universities or organizations for help, classroom [...]