How can we redefine student success?
2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Ashley Lamb-Sinclair says now is the time to start redefining what student success looks like.
Finding your vision takes time
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, the 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, says reforming education takes thought and care and patience.
Three school hospitality programs honored by Sullivan
Three Kentucky secondary school hospitality programs have been named to the 2016 Elite 50, an annual selection of the top 50 secondary school hospitality programs nationwide by the National Center for Hospitality Studies at Sullivan University. The programs recognized, along with their instructors: Arvin Education Center (Oldham County), Garrett Sanborn Bourbon County High School, Jill Hurt Whitley County High School, [...]
The pudding
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, the 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, is seeking new ways to show teachers how much they mean in the lives of their students.
How rigor might look if we gave ourselves a break
Teachers sometimes need to let up on the pressure -- on their students and themselves.
Kentucky Teacher of the Year remains a student at heart
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair didn’t realize it at first, but she discovered she was “one of those people who was just born to teach.”
Literacy is alive in Oldham County’s summer camp
Incoming 1st -graders get intensive literacy intervention at Oldham County’s Camp Literacy Live.
Kentuckians recognized for math, science teaching
Two Kentucky teachers have won the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Andrew Kemp, a science teacher at Male High School (Jefferson Co.), and Robyn Morris, a mathematics teacher at East Oldham Middle School (Oldham Co.), are among 108 winners representing the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Department of Defense schools. The Presidential Award for [...]
200 Ky. teachers gain National Board Certification
Two hundred more Kentucky teachers have achieved National Board Certification, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has announced, bring the state closer to its legislative goal of having at least one National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) in every public school. With 3,181 NBCTs overall, Kentucky ranks ninth in the nation, and only five states have more new NBCTs [...]
Superintendents’ Spotlight: Will Wells, Oldham County
Will Wells Will Wells, who began his third year as superintendent of the Oldham County school district this fall, oversees more than 12,000 students in 16 schools along with a preschool, arts center and career-focused education center. The career center is home to one of the district’s most exciting initiatives, the new OCS Engineering Academy, which launched in [...]