Kenton County students create investments that count
Seventh-graders are making gains through online investment challenge.
Advising toolkit helps all adults advise, mentor students
A new advising toolkit uses all adults in a school to serve as mentors/advisers for students.
Twelve Kentucky school districts receive major grant
An $8.8 million, three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support teachers and students in 12 school districts, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) announced today. This investment, known as an “Integration Grant,” will support the integration of several critical streams of work – measures of effective teaching, implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the [...]
Hanner earns award of excellence
The Prichard Committee presented its highest recognition, its Award of Excellence, to Tim Hanner of the Kenton County school district. Hanner, 50, retired from the Kenton County schools in June due to medical concerns. He began serving as superintendent in 2006 and was named the Kentucky Association of School Administrators’ Superintendent of the Year in 2010. […]
KJHS Conference and KHD winners
Kentucky students were rewarded for their talents in history at the Kentucky Junior Historical Society (KJHS) 2011 Kentucky History Day (KHD) recently in Frankfort. KHD is part of the National History Day program, which is an annual, year-long program designed to promote teaching and learning history in America’s schools. Students analyze the historical significance of their topics and present conclusions [...]
Institute projects target mathematics, science improvement
From the Prichard Committee Training from the Prichard Committee’s Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership (CIPL) has turned mechanical engineer Michael Ekbundit into a champion for real-world science in the Bullitt County school district. Ekbundit had been an occasional guest speaker before going through the institute. This year, however, he is focusing his work and looking to see if his work [...]
Kenton County brings best middle school artists together
Program in Kenton County helps students in their ASCENT through arts education.
State following Kenton’s collaboration lead on teacher evaluations
By Matthew Tungate matthew.tungate@education.ky.gov Kentucky Department of Education officials are using the Kenton County school district as a model in developing a statewide teacher-evaluation system. Since the 2009-10 school year, Kenton County has been using a rubric-based performance-evaluation model that teachers, school administrators and district officials collaboratively researched, designed and implemented, according to Michael Dailey, director of the Department of [...]
Teacher, principal effectiveness teams meet
Two panels of district leaders and educators have begun working with Kentucky Department of Education staff to develop the state’s new teacher and principal evaluation systems. The 28-member Teacher Effectiveness Steering Committee includes: Ann Porter, Mason County Board of Education member Kenneth Galloway, superintendent, Graves County school district Tim Hanner, superintendent, Kenton County school district Dot Perkins, superintendent, Gallatin County [...]