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Kentucky Teacher News for the Nation’s Most Innovative Educators <![CDATA[A woman speaks to a group of people sitting at a table.]]> image-id:2210 <![CDATA[A woman standing speaks to a man and woman sitting at a table.]]> image-id:2209 <![CDATA[A group of people stand in front of a crowd sitting at tables.]]> image-id:2208 <![CDATA[A group of people sitting at tables watching a video.]]> image-id:2207 <![CDATA[Kentucky Board of Education members including JoAnn Adams (right), honored K-12 educators during the 2022 Educators Excellence luncheon. Photo by Jacob Perkins, June 8, 2022.]]> image-id:2206 <![CDATA[220608_KBE_teacher-recognition-lunch_jp_6029]]> image-id:2205 <![CDATA[220608_KBE_Teacher-Recognition-Lunch_Joann-Adams_jp_6073]]> image-id:2204 <![CDATA[220608_KBE_teacher-recognition-lunch_Patrice-McCrary_jp_6107]]> image-id:2203 <![CDATA[220608_KBE_teacher-recognition-lunch_Patrice-McCrary_jp_6107_low-res]]> image-id:2202 <![CDATA[220608_KBE_teacher-recognition-lunch_jp_6054]]> image-id:2201 <![CDATA[A woman smiles while speaking to a man sitting down at a table.]]> image-id:2200 <![CDATA[Zoee Robinson, a student at Jessamine Career and Technology Center (Jessamine County), makes a point during her closing argument for the defense in a mock trial practice.Photo by Mike Marsee, Dec. 9, 2019]]> image-id:2199 <![CDATA[Hannah Embree, a student at Jessamine Career and Technology Center (Jessamine County), makes the closing argument for the prosecution during a mock trial practice.Photo by Mike Marsee, Dec. 9, 2019]]> image-id:2198 <![CDATA[Students from a career pathways class at East Jessamine Middle School (Jessamine County) look on as they serve as a jury for a mock trail practice conducted by students from the pre-law pathway at Jessamine Career and Technology Center.Photo by Mike Marsee, Dec. 9, 2019]]> image-id:2197 <![CDATA[Katie Hess, a witness for the prosecution, is questioned by prosecuting attorney Bethany Mummert during a mock trail practice conducted by students from the pre-law pathway at Jessamine Career and Technology Center (Jessamine County).Photo by Mike Marsee, Dec. 9, 2019]]> image-id:2196 <![CDATA[Ellie Cox, Zoee Robinson and Andrew Waters, left to right, listen to closing arguments from the defense table during a mock trial practice conducted by students from Jessamine Career and Technology Center (Jessamine County). Cox played the role of the defendant in the case, while Robinson and Waters were part of the defense team.Photo by Mike Marsee, Dec. 9, 2019]]> image-id:2195 <![CDATA[Melanie Ramey]]> image-id:2194 <![CDATA[Kristi Fehr]]> image-id:2193 <![CDATA[Deborah Brock]]> image-id:2192 <![CDATA[Erin Schneider]]> image-id:2191 <![CDATA[A group of students in the Early Learning Academy at Estes Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) attempts to reassemble a bicycle that had been taken apart earlier. The Early Learning Academy serves 4- and 5-year-olds who may not be prepared to enter kindergarten, providing early childhood education that focuses on the whole child. Photo by Megan Gross, March 20, 2019]]> image-id:2190 <![CDATA[Students in the Early Learning Academy use dolls as part of a lesson on family time. One characteristic of the academy, which aims to better prepare students to enter kindergarten, is its fostering of a family atmosphere among the students and their families. Photo by Megan Gross, March 20, 2019]]> image-id:2189 <![CDATA[A student in the Early Learning Academy uses a computer during a lesson. Students often work in small groups that are based on their individual needs. Photo by Megan Gross, March 20, 2019]]> image-id:2188 <![CDATA[Students in the Early Learning Academy attempt to reassemble a bicycle that had been taken apart earlier. Teachers and assistants in the academy rely on sensory centers, art projects, interactive physical education, field trips and scientific exploration to build students’ motor skills, and this year there has been an emphasis on outdoor learning centers. Photo by Megan Gross, March 20, 2019]]> image-id:2187 <![CDATA[McKenna Hack, an 8th-grade student at Marion County Knight Academy, works on assembling a lamp during the machine tool technology rotation that is part of a semester-long class at the Marion County Area Technology Center. The class gives students an up-close look at the school's advanced manufacturing pathway. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 15, 2018]]> image-id:2186 <![CDATA[Jason Spalding, an instructor at Marion County Area Technology Center, makes a point to 8th-grade student Logan Pritchard, who is in the computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing rotation. Students also have rotations in welding, machine tool technology and industrial maintenance as part of the class that introduces them to the school's advanced manufacturing pathway. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 15, 2018]]> image-id:2185 <![CDATA[Greg Conley, the lead Project Lead the Way teacher at Marion County High School, talks to 8th-grade student Dayton Sims during an introduction to STEM class at Marion County Area Technology Center. Conley said he wants students in the class to gain an understanding of whether engineering is for them or whether they are suited for a similar career. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 15, 2018]]> image-id:2184 <![CDATA[Chris Sublett, a machine tool technology instructor at Marion County Area Technology Center, helps 8th-grade student Chelsea Hardin assemble a lamp. Students work on a project in each of the four rotations in the class. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 15, 2018]]> image-id:2183 <![CDATA[Jordan Tedrow, left, a welding instructor at Marion County Area Technology Center, shows two 8th-grade students what a good weld should look like. Tedrow said working with younger students was an adjustment for him, but the class has gone well. Photo by Megan Gross, Oct. 15, 2018]]> image-id:2182 <![CDATA[Dan Parks, a member of the Laurel County schools’ Security Response Team, visits with students in a 4th-grade class taught by his daughter, Heather Comeens, right, at Bush Elementary School (Laurel County). Parks is assigned to a school where two daughters work and three grandchildren are students. Many members of the team are assigned to schools where members of their family work or study.Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 27, 2018]]> image-id:2181 <![CDATA[Charles Parker, a member of a member of the Laurel County schools’ Security Response Team, listens as trumpet player Braxton Campbell, euphonium player Johnathan Fultz and other students tune their instruments in the music room at South Laurel Middle School. Parker said he has been moved by the way students and staff members have treated him since he began working at the school.Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 27, 2018]]> image-id:2180 <![CDATA[Bobby Day, right, and Dan Smoot, two members of the Laurel County schools’ Security Response Team members assigned to North Laurel Middle School, greet 6th-grade student Dominic Cesario as he enters the building. The two men said engaging the students at the start of the day helps them be aware of when something might be wrong and helps the students feel more comfortable around them.Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 27, 2018]]> image-id:2179 <![CDATA[Rachel Palmer, an 8th-grade student at Drakes Creek Middle School (Warren County) makes a tesselation during the art portion of the Academy at the Creek, a program for the school's gifted and talented students. The academy originally was centered on mathematics and science but has evolved to focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) disciplines. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 25, 2018]]> image-id:2178 <![CDATA[Rachel Palmer positions items as she works on her tesselation during the Academy at the Creek. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 25, 2018]]> image-id:2177 <![CDATA[Kayleigh Cook works on a mathematics project in which she adds weight to plastic eggs and studies its effect in the Academy at the Creek. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 25, 2018]]> image-id:2176 <![CDATA[Hunter Price, an 8th-grade student, eats a bowl of white chicken chili prepared from Katie McClain's recipe during lunch. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 28, 2017]]> image-id:2174 <![CDATA[Katie McClain, the library media specialist at Farristown Middle School (Madison County), tries a bowl of white chicken chili before the start of lunch on Teacher Tuesday. McClain's recipe for the chili was selected and prepared by the cafeteria staff to be served on Teacher Tuesday. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 28, 2017]]> image-id:2173 <![CDATA[Chef Bradley Mitchell, left, a chef with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's Kentucky Proud program, and cafeteria worker Suzie Wilson tear up smoked peppers for a sauce to be served during lunch. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 28, 2017]]> image-id:2172 <![CDATA[Vilma York, a cafeteria worker at Farristown Middle School, writes menus and nutritional info on a whiteboard in the cafeteria. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 28, 2017]]> image-id:2171 <![CDATA[Austin Byrn helps his father Jeremy set up a telescope before the start of the solar eclipse. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2170 <![CDATA[Austin Byrn, a student at Western Kentucky University, helps his father Jeremy Bryn, an environmental science teacher at Allen County Scottsville High School, set up a white board to write down data before the start of the solar eclipse. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2169 <![CDATA[Jeremy Byrn, right, an environmental science teacher at Allen County-Scottsville High School, and his son Austin observe crescent shadows during the solar eclipse. Byrn and other science teachers in the district participated in a series of departmental meetings to prepare for the day of the eclipse. Photo by Bobby Elllis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2168 <![CDATA[The moon moves in front of the sun during a partial phase of the solar eclipse. The eclipse lasted almost three hours from start to finish, and Allen County students were outside for about one hour. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2167 <![CDATA[Students in Shelby Fisher's 8th-grade science class at James E. Bazzell Middle School (Allen County) look up at a partial phase of the eclipse through solar eclipse viewers. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2166 <![CDATA[Vada Coffee, a freshman at Allen County-Scottsville High School, uses her phone and a modified solar filter to take a picture of the partial eclipse. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2165 <![CDATA[Caneion Coffee, a freshman at Allen County-Scottsville High School, uses a solar eclipse viewer to see the eclipse. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2164 <![CDATA[Eclipse watchers use a white foam board to see the detail of shadows during the eclipse outside Allen County-Scottsville High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2163 <![CDATA[A corona is visible during the total solar eclipse as seen from outside Allen County-Scottsville High School. Students at four Allen County schools viewed the eclipse during the school day, and teachers and administrators planned for months to make the event a safe, memorable and educational experience for the students. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 21, 2017]]> image-id:2162 <![CDATA[Stephanie Parrott, an elementary teacher at Kit Carson Elementary (Madison County), measures the sun during an outdoor learning workshop. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 15, 2017]]> image-id:2161 <![CDATA[Teachers plant vegetable seeds during an outdoor learing workshop at Kit Carson Elementary (Madison County). Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 15, 2017]]> image-id:2160 <![CDATA[Cynthia Domenghini, instructor and online Horticultural Therapy program coordinator at Kansas State University, shows off the inside of a pitcher plant while giving a lesson on plant-based science projects for teachers at an outdoor learning workshop at Kit Carson Elementary. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 15, 2017]]> image-id:2158 <![CDATA[Morgan Wheeler, left, and Julie Barlow dip doughnut holes in chocolate while working at the Old School Café. Students earn minimum wage while working at the shop. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 24, 2017]]> image-id:2157 <![CDATA[Glazed doughnuts sit on a tray at Metcalfe County High School's Old School Café. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 24, 2017]]> image-id:2156 <![CDATA[Julie Barlow bags doughnut holes after dipping them in chocolate. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 24, 2017]]> image-id:2155 <![CDATA[Taylor Brown, a junior at Metcalfe County High School, fries cinnamon rolls to be sold at the Old School Café. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 24, 2017]]> image-id:2153 <![CDATA[Lacey Trumbo grabs a glazed doughnut for a customer at Metcalfe County High School's Old School Café. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 24, 2017]]> image-id:2152 <![CDATA[Warren County Area Technology Center students Doc McClendon, left, and Alex Robertson check the suspension of a 1980 Corvette being rebuilt for competition in the On Track motorsports education initiative. Students are judged on everything from the car's performance to their own business and marketing plans in their competition with students from South Central Community and Technical College. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 11, 2017]]> image-id:2151 <![CDATA[Warren County ATC automotive instructor Michael Emberton takes a rebuilt 1981 Camaro for a spin outside the school. The car was rebuilt in the first year of the On Track program and was sold at auction earlier this spring for $24,000, which was put back into the program. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 11, 2017]]> image-id:2150 <![CDATA[Warren County ATC Principal Eric Keeling, left, looks on as students work on the Corvette's engine. Keeling said instructors in four career pathways have incorporated project-based learning into their work on the car, and the program has benefited students academically. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 11, 2017]]> image-id:2149 <![CDATA[Freddy Hernandez, top, and classmates at Warren County ATC work on the Corvette engine. Automotive instructor Michael Emberton said the On Track program has motivated his students in a way he hadn't seen before. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 11, 2017]]> image-id:2148 <![CDATA[Dylan Zaldivar-Tellez, left, and Giselline Peralta-Danger practice the xylophone during a music class at Schaffner Traditional Elementary (Jefferson County). Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 18, 2017]]> image-id:2146 <![CDATA[Jesse Murrah, a 5th-grader at Schaffner Traditional Elementary (Jefferson County), looks at a caterpillar during an exploration lab. Schaffner students visit the science lab once a week in addition to their everyday science instruction. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 18, 2017]]> image-id:2145 <![CDATA[Maha Abukar, a 1st-grader at Schaffner Traditional Elementary School (Jefferson County), tells a classmate to be quite during a lesson. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 18, 2017]]> image-id:2144 <![CDATA[Vincent Rosa, a 3rd-grade student at Schaffner Traditional Elementary (Jefferson County) weaves thread art during an art class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 18, 2017]]> image-id:2143 <![CDATA[Isabella Hatfield, a 1st-grader at Schaffner Traditional Elementary (Jefferson County) dances with fellow classmates during a class song about phonics. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 18, 2017]]> image-id:2142 <![CDATA[Casey County High School students work on the tiny house as part of Garlen Whitis' Fundamentals of Construction class. Business teacher Tara Weddle is buying the house and will move it to her family's farm. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 3, 2017]]> image-id:2141 <![CDATA[Miranda Burrison, a senior, pulls nails out of a support beam used to hold up an unfinished wall frame on the 800-square foot tiny house being built by Garlen Whitis’ Fundamentals of Construction students. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 3, 2017]]> image-id:2140 <![CDATA[Jacob Quirantes, a junior, climbs into the rafters of the tiny house to take measurements during the building project. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 3, 2017]]> image-id:2139 <![CDATA[Garlen Whitis' students work in the rafters of the tiny house his Casey County class is building. The students researched the tiny house craze before designing the house. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 3, 2017]]> image-id:2138 <![CDATA[Washington County science teachers work on creating performance tasks as part of a grant to improve the use of formative assessment in science. Photo by Bobby Ellis]]> image-id:2137 <![CDATA[Kentucky Department of Education Science Consultant Rae McEntyre works with Washington County science teachers on formative assessment practices. Bobby Ellis]]> image-id:2136 <![CDATA[Amy Noel, 2nd-grade teacher at Washington County Elementary, shows her fellow teachers, a mobile her students made. Noel is one of 12 Washington County teachers that are developing performance tasks as part of a grant designed to improve science instruction and assessment across the state and nation. Photo by Bobby Ellis]]> image-id:2135 <![CDATA[Rachel Beck, the education coordinator at the Kentucky Science Center, works with 1st-grade students at Lowe Elementary School (Jefferson County) as part of a distance learning program. Beck said the center's distance learning program has been in place for some time, and a Kentucky Department of Education consultant called it "a tremendous resource for our teachers and library media specialists." Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 14, 2017]]> image-id:2134 <![CDATA[Matt Milosevich, a meteorologist with WLKY in Louisville, talks with 1st-grade student Jimena Jara as she experiments with a straw and building materials during a distance learning program at Lowe Elementary School. Milosevich talked about the effects of a 2008 wind storm in Louisville as part of the program, which was born out of a student's question about the strongest type of storm. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 14, 2017]]> image-id:2133 <![CDATA[Shaina Stone, a 1st-grade student at Lowe Elementary School, and her classmates use straws to attempt to move rocks across a table as they experimented with the effects of wind on different objects. Students talked about their conclusions with a Kentucky Science Center education staff member via video conference. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 14, 2017]]> image-id:2132 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Jack Carson works on his building skills in his class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2128 <![CDATA[Vona Gallimore, a 5th-grade teacher at Southwest Calloway Elementary (Calloway County), reads a book with her 5th-grade class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2127 <![CDATA[Tyler Lilly, from left, Corbin Watters and Teagan Ives read in their 5th-grade class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2126 <![CDATA[Josh McKeel talks in his office at Southwest Calloway Elementary, where he is in his fifth year as principal. McKeel said his priorities are to make sure students are safe and are challenged academically. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2125 <![CDATA[Talyn Weatherly, a 2nd-grader at Southwest Calloway Elementary (Calloway County), looks through a ruler while measuring different objects in her class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2124 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Lauren Hill selects a book in the library. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2123 <![CDATA[Marquita Welsh, a reading interventionist at East Carter County High School, speaks to teachers from Perry County during a recent visit. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 15, 2017]]> image-id:2122 <![CDATA[Assistant Principal Kevin Campbell, of Perry County High School, speaks with Sheri Bonzo, a science teacher at East Carter County High School, during a visit to the Hub School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 15, 2017]]> image-id:2121 <![CDATA[Assistant Principal Kevin Campbell, of Perry County High School, observes a classroom during a Hub visit to East Carter County High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 15, 2017]]> image-id:2120 <![CDATA[Kevin Campbell, assistant principal at Perry County High School, looks at a card given to East Carter High School students for meeting proficiency benchmarks. The cards can be used to get into athletic events for free and for other rewards. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 15, 2017]]> image-id:2117 <![CDATA[Beau Baker, center, the dean of the Ivy Plus Academy at Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County), speaks Mary Stallings, left, and Alexis Harding about their progress in the academy. Baker counsels students on the application and admissions process, as well as scholarships and financial aid. He also helps them schedule college visits. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 14, 2017]]> image-id:2116 <![CDATA[Posters of Ivy League schools and other top colleges that have sent representatives to Fern Creek to meet with Ivy Plus Academy students hang on Beau Baker's classroom wall. Eleven Ivy Plus Academy seniors who graduated in 2016 earned $2.6 million in scholarship money to attend elite schools. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 14, 2017]]> image-id:2115 <![CDATA[Alexis Harding looks over a flyer that provides details about the Ivy Plus Academy. The program's goal is to serve up to 200 students per year. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Feb. 14, 2017]]> image-id:2113 <![CDATA[In what's called Iceberg Alley, Sam Northern got to see killer whales on Christmas Eve. "I could not have asked for a better Christmas present," he said. Submitted photo provided by Sam Northern.]]> image-id:2112 <![CDATA[On Christmas Day, Sam Northern took an excursion in Cierva Cove to view sea ice, but ended up viewing humpback whales instead. Submitted photo by Sam Northern.]]> image-id:2111 <![CDATA[While on the ship, Sam Northern worked on his interdisciplinary lessons that will help his students go along virtually on his Antarctic expedition. Submitted photo by Sam Northern]]> image-id:2110 <![CDATA[Simpson County's Sam Northern traveled on the National Geographic Explorer, a 367-foot long ship, along with two other teacher fellows – both science teachers – and other passengers on vacation. Submitted photo by Sam Northern]]> image-id:2109 <![CDATA[Sam Northern's first stop on his voyage was on Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands. The group donned parkas, rain pants, waterproof boots and life vests to climb the rocky island, where they could see elephant seals, chinstrap penguins and Weddell seals. Submitted photo by Sam Northern]]> image-id:2108 <![CDATA[Principals participate in a group exercise meant to show how every person working in a school has an impact on students during the Leadership Institute for School Principals. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Jan. 26, 2017]]> image-id:2107 <![CDATA[Scott Bradley, principal of Wingo Elementary School (Graves County), takes part in a group exercise during the Leadership Institute for School Principals. Principals apply for the institute and can attend free of charge if selected. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Jan. 26, 2017]]> image-id:2106 <![CDATA[Angie Akers, the principal at Glasscock Elementary School (Marion County), takes notes during the Leadership Institute for School Principals. The program includes three days of training at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C., and a pair of two-day sessions at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce offices in Frankfort. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Jan. 26, 2017]]> image-id:2105 <![CDATA[Branden Kiper, a student at Breckinridge County Area Technology Center, works on the design for the metal version of the KDE logo that will be displayed in KDE's offices in Frankfort. Photo by Bobbie Sosh, Jan. 10, 2017]]> image-id:2104 <![CDATA[John Whitfill, a computerized manufacturing and machining instructor, looks at plans for the metal version of the logo. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 21, 2016]]> image-id:2103 <![CDATA[Nick Stinson, left, gets help from carpentry instructor Will Farmer and former principal Tom Thompson as he cuts out letters for the wooden version of the logo. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 21, 2016]]> image-id:2102 <![CDATA[Nick Stinson, left, a senior at Breckinridge County Area Technology Center, and Will Farmer, a carpentry instructor at the school, use scroll saws to cut out detail pieces for a wooden version of the Kentucky Department of Education's logo that will be displayed in KDE's offices in Frankfort. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Dec. 21, 2016]]> image-id:2101 <![CDATA[The versions of the KDE logos created by Breckinridge County ATC students, along with artwork from students and teachers from across the Commonwealth, will be displayed in KDE's offices in the 300 Building in Frankfort, where the agency moved last year. KDE File Photo]]> image-id:2100 <![CDATA[KY_logo - TELL]]> image-id:2099 <![CDATA[Darci Finn, a kindergarten teacher at Collins Elementary (Boone County), left, and Rhonda Herald, an instructional coach at Collins Elementary, observe a Grandview Elementary classroom as a teacher uses the workshop model to teach a lesson. Under the model, the teacher teaches a mini lesson, then allows time for students to work independently before regrouping to talk about what they have learned. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Nov. 2, 2016]]> image-id:2098 <![CDATA[A poster in a Grandview Elementary (Belleview Independent) classroom explains schema, the things students already know and how students can add to their schema. Schema is one of the seven Thinking Strategies. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Nov. 2, 2016]]> image-id:2097 <![CDATA[Robb Smith, superintendent of Bellevue Independent, center, meets with Boone County teachers and administrators after the educators observed classrooms at Grandview Elementary. The Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services has brought more than 10 districts to visit the school so far this school year. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Nov. 2, 2016]]> image-id:2096 <![CDATA[A group of Boone County teachers visits a classroom at Grandview Elementary (Bellevue Independent) to study teaching techniques from the Public Education & Business Coalition. The district has incorporated those techniques into what it has dubbed the Bellevue Classroom. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Nov. 2, 2016]]> image-id:2095 <![CDATA[TThomas Loring, left, principal of Collins Elementary (Boone County) speaks with Carrie Skirvin, a kindergarten teacher at Grandview Elementary (Bellevue Independent), during a visit to the school to observe the Bellevue Classroom model, which incorporates the seven Thinking Strategies. The strategies are designed to get students to think about how they are learning. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Nov. 2, 2016]]> image-id:2094 <![CDATA[Jeremy Howell, a former teacher at Poage Elementary School (Ashland Independent) reviews the rules of noonball with students before tipoff of the first game of the season. Howell coordinated the noonball league for several years before moving to another school in the district this year. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2093 <![CDATA[Poage Elementary School students battle for a tipped ball during a game of noonball. The game was invented as a way to help students stay active in the winter when the temperature becomes too cold to go outside for recess and was designed to include all students, not just those with good basketball skills. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2092 <![CDATA[Silesia Damron, a 4th-grade teacher at Poage Elementary School (Ashland Independent), calls out a play from the bench as she coaches a noonball team. Teachers and staff members coach teams in the recess league; Damron has coached teams for about 15 years. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2091 <![CDATA[Laney Fannin drives past a defender to the basket during a game of noonball at Poage Elementary School (Ashland Independent). Teams of 4th- and 5th-grade students make up the school's noonball league. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2090 <![CDATA[A group of students cheers on their classmates during a game of noonball at Poage Elementary School (Ashland Independent). The cheers are usually loudest for special-needs students playing the game. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2089 <![CDATA[Cameron Cordle is blocked by defenders as he attempts to drive to the basket during a game of noonball at Poage Elementary School (Ashland Independent). The league runs for about three months and concludes with a championship tournament and an alumni game. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2088 <![CDATA[KAHPERD President Jamie Sparks congratulates Andrew Case, who was named the KAHPERD College P.E. Student of the Year. Submitted photo by Jess Lawrence of Carin Guidance]]> image-id:2087 <![CDATA[KAHPERD President Jamie Sparks congratulates Jennifer Costanzo, who was named the KAHPERD College Health Student of the year. Submitted photo by Jess Lawrence of Carin Guidance]]> image-id:2086 <![CDATA[KAHPERD President Jamie Sparks congratulates Dennis Minnis, who was named the KAHPERD Elementary P.E. Teacher of the Year. Submitted photo by Jess Lawrence of Carin Guidance]]> image-id:2085 <![CDATA[KAHPERD President Jamie Sparks, left, congratulates Angela Stark, who was named Secondary P.E. Teacher of the Year and also received the Distinguished Service Award. Submitted photo by Jess Lawrence of Carin Guidance]]> image-id:2084 <![CDATA[KAHPERD President Jamie Sparks congratulates D'Artagnan Coots, who was named KAHPERD Health Education Teacher of the Year. Pictured with Coots are his two daughters. Submitted photo by Jess Lawrence of Carin Guidance]]> image-id:2083 <![CDATA[KAHPERD President Jamie Sparks congratulates Karen Baum, who received the KAHPERD Lifetime Member Award. Submitted photo by Jess Lawrence of Carin Guidance]]> image-id:2082 <![CDATA[Allyson Lunsford, a 5th-grade student at Johson Elementary School (Laurel County), raises her hand during class. Johnson Elementary was named a Distinguished School in 2014 and a School of Distinction in 2015. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 18, 2016]]> image-id:2081 <![CDATA[Charity Hammons, a student at Johnson Elementary School (Laurel County), chews on her pen while waiting for a book to be handed out to her during class. The school's library media specialist said she tries to make sure students have access to books they want to read. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 18, 2016]]> image-id:2080 <![CDATA[Principal Jamie Gilliam helps students get crayons as they color bookmarks for a contest at Johnson Elementary School. Gilliam said students at the school consistently meet the high expectations teachers have for them. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 18, 2016]]> image-id:2079 <![CDATA[Nevaeh Riley, a 2nd-grade student at Johnson Elementary School (Laurel County), colors a bookmark during a class in which students were working on entries for an art contest. Visual and performing arts education is a daily part of the school's curriculum. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 18, 2016]]> image-id:2078 <![CDATA[Cindy Storm, a 2nd-grade teacher at Johnson Elementary School (Laurel County) works with students in a reading workshop. Storm called Johnson Elementary, a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School and the smallest school in a relatively large district, "a hidden jewel in the county." Photo by Bobby Ellis, Nov. 18, 2016]]> image-id:2077 <![CDATA[Spanish Honors Society students at Model Laboratory High School created an original altar for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian as part of the museum’s Dia de los Muertos activities. The museum has asked to archive the piece. Submitted photo by Ernest McClees]]> image-id:2076 <![CDATA[The altar, or ofrenda, also featured the Aztec god and goddess of death to demonstrate the foundations of the Day of the Dead holiday. Submitted photo by Ernest McClees]]> image-id:2075 <![CDATA[Model Laboratory High School's Day of the Dead altar, which was named "The Beginning is Near," highlighted the day's Mesoamerican and Aztec origins. While contemporary altars usually feature framed photos of lost loved ones, this one featured prominent members of the Latin community. Submitted photo by Ernest McClees]]> image-id:2074 <![CDATA[Kara Northern uses a flashlight to show her 1st-grade class at Jody Richards Elementary School (Warren County) how light sources can affect shadows during a lesson she is testing as part of an initiative led by Boston public television station WGBH in collaboration with NASA that is developing new instructional models and digital media tools for STEM classrooms. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Oct. 17, 2016]]> image-id:2073 <![CDATA[Jaden Curry, a 1st-grade student at Jody Richards Elementary School (Warren County), points out a light source on a Smart Board in Kara Northern's class. Northern is one of 50 teachers across the country testing digital media tools for STEM classrooms. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Oct. 17, 2016]]> image-id:2072 <![CDATA[Kara Northern explains shadows to a student in her 1st-grade class at Jody Richards Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Bobby Ellis, Oct. 17, 2016]]> image-id:2071 <![CDATA[Kara Northern, a 1st-grade teacher at Jody Richards Elementary School (Warren County), asks her students to "kiss their brains" after they answer a question in class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Oct. 17, 2016]]> image-id:2070 <![CDATA[Kara Northern, a 1st-grade teacher at Jody Richards Elementary School (Warren County), asks her students a question about light and shadows as she stands in the light of a classroom projector. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Oct. 17, 2016]]> image-id:2069 <![CDATA[Members of the Young Male Leadership Academy pose with Aaron Thompson, the interim president of Kentucky State University during a tour of the university. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Oct. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2068 <![CDATA[Codey Stoll, a senior at Warren East High School (Warren County), holds a red-clawed crayfish while visiting the aquaculture table at a Kentucky State University open house. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Oct. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2067 <![CDATA[Ben Meza, a freshman at Bowling Green High School, looks at a an EcoSphere during a Kentucky State University open house. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Oct. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2066 <![CDATA[Brevon Whitney, a junior at Warren East High School (Warren County), looks at a plastic bracelet made with a 3D printer during a tour of Kentucky State University. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Oct. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2065 <![CDATA[Chiedu Afam, a senior at South Warren High School, watches as a 3D printer makes a plastic bracelet. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Oct. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2064 <![CDATA[Codey Stoll, a senior at Warren East High School (Warren County), holds a red-clawed crayfish while visiting the aquaculture table at a Kentucky State University open house. Photo by Bobby Ellis; Oct. 29, 2016]]> image-id:2063 <![CDATA[Students from Burgin Independent School cross a bridge to the Dix Dam hydroelectric plant at Kentucky Utilities' E.W. Brown Generating Station. Students in Chad Terrell's energy and power foundations class toured the plant as part of a partnership with KU. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2062 <![CDATA[Kentucky Utilities employees show the turbine housing to students from Burgin Independent School during their visit to the Dix Dam hydroelectric plant as part of their visit to E.W. Brown Generating Station. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2061 <![CDATA[Students from Burgin Independent School head for the lower level of the Dix Dam hydroelectric plant as they tour the facility at the E.W. Brown Generating Station. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2060 <![CDATA[Students from Burgin Independent School look around in the main room at the Dix Dam hydroelectric plant at Kentucky Utilities' E.W. Brown Generating Station. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2059 <![CDATA[Bill Chamberlain, a junior at Burgin Independent School, rides a bus to the hydroelectric plant at Kentucky Utilities' E.W. Brown Generating Station. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2058 <![CDATA[Greg Korte, a junior at Burgin Independent School, presents a model turbine he and his partner created for experiments in his energy and power foundations class, which is part of a new career pathway at the school. Class members showed their work to Kentucky Utilities employees during a tour of KU's E.W. Brown Generating Station, which is about 5 miles from their school. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2057 <![CDATA[Matthew Burdine, left, and Greg Korte, students in Chad Terrell's energy and power foundations class at Burgin Independent School, present experiments done by the class to Kentucky Utilities employees at the E.W. Brown Generating Station. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 30, 2016]]> image-id:2056 <![CDATA[SKillernclassroom2]]> image-id:2055 <![CDATA[Skillernclassroom3]]> image-id:2054 <![CDATA[Skillernclassroom4]]> image-id:2053 <![CDATA[Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County) students McKayla Beasley, left, and Anya Bledsloe practice CPR during a training conducted by Start the Heart Foundation. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 23, 2016]]> image-id:2052 <![CDATA[CPR training dummies sit on the gym floor at Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County). Health and physical education teacher Diane Polley said CPR is a skill all students should learn. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 23, 2016]]> image-id:2051 <![CDATA[Dakota Hoskins, a freshman at Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County), practices hands-only CPR on a dummy. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 23, 2016]]> image-id:2050 <![CDATA[Diane Polley, a health and P.E. teacher at Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County), helps students carry CPR practice dummies into the gym. Polley said a Fern Creek student who received the training two years ago saved his grandfather's life last year. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 23, 2016]]> image-id:2049 <![CDATA[Kenza Magouh, an intern with Start the Heart Foundation, shows students at Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County) how to attach a defibulator to a cardiac arrest victim during CPR training at the school. The foundation has trained about 18,000 people in hands-only CPR in just over two years. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 23, 2016]]> image-id:2048 <![CDATA[Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County) students Kenza Magouh and Megan Schilling practice CPR on dummies during a hands-only CPR training provided by the Start the Heart Foundation, which is training students in Jefferson County and some nearby counties. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 23, 2016]]> image-id:2047 <![CDATA[Adair County High School students Kaitlyn Harvey, left, and Kendra Kulac work on Odysseyware assignments in the Vitural Learning Academy. The academy replaces a classroom previously used for online learning that could seat only 25 to 30 students. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 26, 2016]]> image-id:2046 <![CDATA[The Adair County Virtual Learning Academy features different types of seating and workspaces in a setting similar to what students might find in a coffee shop or college lounge. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 26, 2016]]> image-id:2045 <![CDATA[Chris Abscon, left, and Roy Flores, seniors at Adair County High School, work on Spanish homework in the school's new Virtual Learning Academy. Most of the students who use the academy for online learning work on Chromebooks. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 26, 2016]]> image-id:2044 <![CDATA[Commissioner Stephen Pruitt with Bryce Hibbard of Southern High School (Jefferson County). Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 20, 2016]]> image-id:2043 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, from right, congratulates Jay Brewer, president of the board of directors for the Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services. The cooperative was recognized as a best practice for its regional professional learning communities. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 20, 2016]]> image-id:2041 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt congratulates Principal Rick Snodgrass of Hopkins County Central High School for being recognized by the Kentucky Department of Education as a best practice. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 20, 2016]]> image-id:2040 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, left, congratulated math teacher Jaxon Grover of Franklin-Simpson High School. The school was recognized at the Continuous Improvement Summit in Lexington for a best practice. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 20, 2016]]> image-id:2039 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, left, congratulate Marco Muñoz, director of Priority Schools for the Jefferson County school district, at the Continuous Improvement Summit in Lexington. Southern High School, Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North and Seneca High School were all recognized for best practices. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 20, 2016]]> image-id:2038 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, from left, congratulates Superintendent Jonathan Jett of the Perry County school district for being named a best practice district. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Sept. 20, 2016]]> image-id:2037 <![CDATA[Kenny Kelley, Fred Award winner, on his early morning bus route for Daviess County schools. Submitted photo by Lora Wimsatt, Daviess County schools]]> image-id:2036 <![CDATA[After arriving at school, bus driver Kenny Kelley helps the preschoolers at Highland Elementary with their breakfast. He also encourages them to have a great day of learning. Submitted photo by Lora Wimsatt, Daviess County schools]]> image-id:2035 <![CDATA[Kenny Kelley helps two students with their breakfast at Highland Elementary. Submitted photo by Lora Wimsatt, Daviess County schools]]> image-id:2034 <![CDATA[Bus driver Kenny Kelley leads a choo-choo train of students into Highland Elementary School. Photo by Lora Wimsatt, Daviess County schools]]> image-id:2033 <![CDATA[Kenny Kelley holds the school door while the preschool students file into Highland Elementary. Photo by Lora Wimsatt, Daviess County schools]]> image-id:2032 <![CDATA[The Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services' Regional School Programs was recognized as one of seven 2016 Alternative Programs of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, left, and then-KBE Chairman Roger Marcum presented a certificate to then-Principal Matt Compton and then-Assistant Principal Stephanie Turner, who is now the principal. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:2031 <![CDATA[McDaniel Learning Center (Laurel County) was recognized as one of seven 2016 Alternative Programs of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, left, and then-KBE Chairman Roger Marcum presented a certificate to Principal Jeremy Kidd and Counselor Rachel Hyde. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:2030 <![CDATA[The McCracken Regional School in McCracken County was recognized as one of seven 2016 Alternative Programs of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, left, and then-KBE Chairman Roger Marcum presented a certificate to McCracken County Director of Pupil Personnel Brian Bowland, Teacher Crystal Culp and Head Teacher Lucinda Mills. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:2029 <![CDATA[Brayden Muncy, from the Martin County Area Technical Center, looks over his computer during the web design competiton at the 2016 SkillsUSA Championship in Louisville. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 22, 2016]]> image-id:2028 <![CDATA[062216_SkillsChallenge04_be]]> image-id:2027 <![CDATA[TALK PP Binge Learning ppt_010]]> image-id:2026 <![CDATA[TALK PP Binge Learning ppt]]> image-id:2025 <![CDATA[TALK PP Binge Learning ppt 5]]> image-id:2024 <![CDATA[Preston Conley checks out the contents of the backpack given to him by 2nd-grade teacher Elizabeth Harley. The backpacks contained important school information and, in many cases, a small gift for the students. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2023 <![CDATA[Student Elijah Cook, right, and teacher Elizabeth Harley peek inside a backpack outside Cook’s home. Teachers spent a few minutes with each student they visited two days before the start of classes. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2022 <![CDATA[Jadelyn Cook, left, a student at Saffell Street Elementary School (Anderson County), and Elizabeth Harley, her 2nd-grade teacher, peek inside a drawstring backpack during Harley's visit to Cook’s home as part of the school’s Home Visit Blitz. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2021 <![CDATA[Elizabeth Harley prepares to grab a backpack out of the back of a van at another of her stops during Saffell Street Elementary School’s Home Visit Blitz. Homeroom teachers made their rounds with other school staff members, such as teachers without homerooms, the school secretary and the principal. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2020 <![CDATA[Saffell Street Elementary School Principal Todd Wooldridge hangs a backpack on the door of a student who wasn’t home. Wooldridge said building relationships was the primary purpose of the Home Visit Blitz. Photo by Bobby Ellis, Aug. 8, 2016]]> image-id:2019 <![CDATA[Jennifer Baird, a teacher at Southern Oaks Elementary School (Daviess County), points to a screen as she teaches students on the Exploration Station bus about U.S. history. Educators in six Daviess County elementary school used the bus in different ways to reach their students during the summer. Photo by Bobby Ellis, July 18, 2016]]> image-id:2018 <![CDATA[The inside of the Exploration Station bus features room for reading and other activies, WiFi and DVD players with large monitors, storage areas and air conditioning. The bus was used this summer by Daviess County schools to prevent summer slide, but it will get plenty of use during the school year as well. Photo by Bobby Ellis, July 18, 2016]]> image-id:2017 <![CDATA[A group of Audubon Elementary School students takes a selfie after visiting the Daviess County Exploration Station bus. Students were able to select and take home books that were donated during a book drive. Photo by Bobby Ellis, July 18, 2016]]> image-id:2016 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 035]]> image-id:2015 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 036]]> image-id:2014 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 037]]> image-id:2013 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 038]]> image-id:2012 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 039]]> image-id:2011 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 040]]> image-id:2010 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 041]]> image-id:2009 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 042]]> image-id:2008 <![CDATA[Taking a Stand in History 043]]> image-id:2007 <![CDATA[Curtis Brown, principal of Crittenden County High School, listens to a presentation about Persistence to Graduation 2.0.Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 6, 2016]]> image-id:2006 <![CDATA[Barry Brahier, a product manager at Infinite Campus, gives a presentation about Persistence to Graduation 2.0 at a conference at the Lexington Convention Center. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 6, 2016]]> image-id:2005 <![CDATA[Barry Brahier, a product manager at Infinite Campus, gives an overview of Persistence to Graduation 2.0 at a conference at the Lexington Convention Center. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 6, 2016]]> image-id:2004 <![CDATA[Daniel Jarrett, a data scientist with Infinite Campus, gives a presentation on Persistence to Graduation 2.0 at a conference at the Lexington Convention Center. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 6, 2016]]> image-id:2003 <![CDATA[Michael Mock, of Infinite Campus, gives information to Reggie Taylor over Persistence to Graduation 2.0 after a presentation about the software at the Lexington Convention Center. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 6, 2016]]> image-id:2002 <![CDATA[160804Marsee KBEKellyAwardCooper]]> image-id:2001 <![CDATA[160804Marsee KBEKellyAwardHelton]]> image-id:2000 <![CDATA[MG_1684]]> image-id:1999 <![CDATA[MG_1697]]> image-id:1998 <![CDATA[MG_1721]]> image-id:1997 <![CDATA[Photographer Emma White and Senior Editor Katie Okumu review images off of White's camera. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1996 <![CDATA[Managing Editor Greg Schloemer, left, and Senior Editor Katie Okumu talk about one of Schloemer's upcoming stories for the Berea Community High School student paper. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1995 <![CDATA[Senior Editor Katie Okumu, left, Managing Editor Claire Hogg and photographer Emma White discuss the available art for upcoming stories during a layout day at the Berea Community High School student paper. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1994 <![CDATA[Clay Beavin, left, and Katie Okumu, the senior editor of the Berea student paper, discuss Beavin's upcoming story during a page design day. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1993 <![CDATA[The Western Day Treatment Center (Jefferson County) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:1992 <![CDATA[The Transformation Learning Center (Covington Independent) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:1991 <![CDATA[The Regional School Program (Dayton Independent) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June.]]> image-id:1990 <![CDATA[The McDaniel Learning Center (Laurel County) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:1989 <![CDATA[The McCracken Regional School (McCracken County) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:1988 <![CDATA[The Learning Center of Linlee (Fayette County) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:1987 <![CDATA[The Bullitt County Alternative Center (Bullitt County) was named as a 2016 Alternative Program of Distinction during the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in June. Photo by Bobby Ellis, June 8, 2016]]> image-id:1986 <![CDATA[Radishes, onions and kale picked from the garden at Rowan County Middle School sits on a table in the teacher lounge. The vegetables are sold to students and teachers to raise money for projects to combat community hunger as part of the school's project-based learning initiative. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 18, 2016]]> image-id:1985 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade science teacher Jennifer Pecco holds fresh radishes and kale from the garden at Rowan County Middle School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 18, 2016]]> image-id:1984 <![CDATA[Game Kidd picks spinach from the raised garden beds at Rowan County Middle School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 18, 2016]]> image-id:1983 <![CDATA[Kara Adams, left, and Jenna Hunt laugh after trying freshly picked kale from their raised garden beds at Rowan County Middle School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 18, 2016]]> image-id:1982 <![CDATA[Kara Adams, a 6th-grader at Rowan County Middle School, picks kale in one of the schools' garden beds. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 18, 2016]]> image-id:1981 <![CDATA[Sixth-graders Lane Bowling, left, and R.J. Mynhier pick spinach from one of the raised garden beds at Rowan County Middle School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, May 18, 2016]]> image-id:1980 <![CDATA[Garrett Thompson, of Pendleton County, looks at 3-D printed statues during the World Maker and Inventor Expo at Boone County High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 23, 2016]]> image-id:1979 <![CDATA[Cole Super, a 5th-grader at Thornwilde Elementary (Boone County) uses a LEGO fan to blow air onto Maddie Ketron, also a 5th-grader at Thornwilde. Photo By Bobby Ellis, April 23, 2016]]> image-id:1978 <![CDATA[Lane Post reaches out of his stroller toward a robot arm during the World Maker and Inventor Expo at Boone County High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 23, 2016]]> image-id:1977 <![CDATA[A 3-D printed owl sits on a table next to other 3-D printed figures at the World Maker and Inventor Expo at Boone County High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 23, 2016]]> image-id:1976 <![CDATA[Joyce Chan, left, a 3rd-grader at New Haven Elementary (Boone County), presses an image into a button with the help of Audrey Wilson and Tessa Hutchinson, both 8th-graders at Gray Middle School (Boone County) during the World Maker and Inventor Expo at Boone County High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 23, 2016]]> image-id:1975 <![CDATA[Barbie Harris signs her comments to Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt during the Lexington meeting. Harris spoke about issues concerning the Kentucky School for the Deaf. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1974 <![CDATA[Susan McLaughlin-Jones speaks during the meeting in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1971 <![CDATA[Courtney Turay, a music teacher at Lemon's Mill Elementary, speaks during the town hall in Lexington while other crowd members wait to speak. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1970 <![CDATA[Patti Stanton, a music teacher at Winburn Middle School (Fayette County), speaks during the meeting in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1969 <![CDATA[Commissioner Stephen Pruitt speaks to Squires Elementary (Fayette County) students Izzy Taylor, left, and Eric Walker before the start of the Education Town Hall Meeting in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1968 <![CDATA[Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, right, the 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, applauds a speaker at the Louisville meeting. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1967 <![CDATA[Elijah Thomas, a former student in Jefferson County, speaks at the Louisville Meeting. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1966 <![CDATA[Gay Adelmann, a member of the Jefferson County Public Schools PTA, speaks during the Education Town Hall Meeting at Seneca High School (Jefferson County). Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 21, 2016]]> image-id:1965 <![CDATA[Jackson Wilkerson, of Northern Elementary, builds a tower with his classmates in the makerspace at the STLP championships in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1963 <![CDATA[STLP contestants watch as LEGO robots battle at the STLP championships in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1962 <![CDATA[Dalton Maynard plays with a die in-between presentations during the STLP finals in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1961 <![CDATA[Erika Walters uses a virtual reality headset during the STLP finals in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1960 <![CDATA[Jacob Biesmer, a junior at LaRue County High School, poses for the camera while setting up his group's booth at the STLP finals. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1958 <![CDATA[Daniel Cardenas looks at an iPad during the STLP finals in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1957 <![CDATA[Derrick Trotter, an 8th grader at Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North (Jefferson County), works under a table as he attempts to hook up a computer screen his presentation at the STLP finals. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1956 <![CDATA[Abdullah Sher and other Hazard Middle School (Hazard Independent) students set up a desktop before the start of the STLP finals. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1955 <![CDATA[Virginia Richay, a 4th-grader at Field Elementary (Jefferson County) sets up a computer and 3-D printer at the STLP finals in Lexington. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 22, 2016]]> image-id:1954 <![CDATA[Education and Workforce Development Cabinet Secretary Hal Heiner talks with students from West Hardin Middle School about their solar heater. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 28, 2016]]> image-id:1953 <![CDATA[Hannah Reinhart, an 8th-grader from Shelby County High School, explains her school's project to remove invasive species in the woods around their school during the Youth Summit and Awards Luncheon at the Frankfort Convention Center. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 28, 2016]]> image-id:1952 <![CDATA[Hal Heiner, secretary the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, delivers a speech during the Youth Summit and Awards Luncheon at the Frankfort Convention Center. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 28, 2016]]> image-id:1951 <![CDATA[042516Pruitt_iLead08_be]]> image-id:1949 <![CDATA[042516Pruitt_iLead07_be]]> image-id:1948 <![CDATA[iLEAD student Storm Mitchell, left, talks with Mike Drake of Kentucky Utilities about her reverse engineering project at the school's demonstration night. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 24, 2016]]> image-id:1947 <![CDATA[Brody Fugate, a freshman at iLEAD Academy from Trimble County, shows off his reverse engineering project at to Renee Cameron during the demonstration at the iLEAD Academy in Carrollton. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 24, 2016]]> image-id:1946 <![CDATA[042516Pruitt_iLead03_be]]> image-id:1944 <![CDATA[Brody Fugate, a freshman at iLEAD Academy from Trimble County, shows off his reverse engineering project at to Renee Cameron during the demonstration at the iLEAD Academy in Carrollton. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 24, 2016]]> image-id:1943 <![CDATA[iLEAD student Storm Mitchell, left, talks with Mike Drake of Kentucky Utilities about her reverse engineering project at the school's demonstration night. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 24, 2016]]> image-id:1942 <![CDATA[Casey Lail, left, marks a measurement on a piece of balsa wood as Madison Myers cuts another piece during a construction project in their class at the Kenton County Schools’ Women’s Engineering Academy. They are among 13 freshman girls taking part in the first year of the academy, which is part of the Kenton County Academies of Innovation and Technology program. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1941 <![CDATA[Luna Smith, left, and Su'Mya Herndon-Jones work on their wall-building project together in Adam Klaine’s engineering class. The Women’s Engineering Academy students spend half of their school day in the program taking classes in engineering, mathematics and English. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1940 <![CDATA[Janie Pierce measures pieces of balsa wood for her project. Pierce’s younger sister Annie will join the academy’s second class this summer. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1939 <![CDATA[Hannah Sipple cuts a piece of balsa wood for her project. The students have also made presentations, visited colleges and met with female engineers. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1938 <![CDATA[Hailey Poe, left, and Lauren Freeman, right, secure a device onto the arm of fellow Women’s Engineering Academy student Hannah Sipple as Janie Pierce looks on. The device helps secure an iPhone to the user’s wrist. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1937 <![CDATA[Francis O’Hara, director of the Kenton County Academies of Innovation and Technology program, speaks to the Women's Engineering Academy students. O’Hara said girls who were taking Algebra I or geometry as 8th-graders were targeted to join the academy in its first year, and another group of 8th-graders has signed on for next year. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1936 <![CDATA[Luna Smith demonstrates the device helps secure an iPhone to the user’s wrist as Hailey Poe looks on. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1935 <![CDATA[Freshmen Luna Smith, left, and Su'Mya Herndon-Jones work on a project together. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1934 <![CDATA[Freshman Casey Lail measures pieces of balsa wood for a project in her engineering class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1933 <![CDATA[Freshman Anna Sipple cuts balsa wood for a project. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1932 <![CDATA[Freshman Janie Pierce, left, and Madison Myers work on a project for their Women's Engineering Class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1931 <![CDATA[Members of the Women's Engineering Class at Simon Kenton High School in Independence put an invention on the arm of freshman Anna Sipple. The device holds an iPhone and keeps it from falling with the help of a bungie chord. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1930 <![CDATA[Freshman Luna Smith throws an iPhone to demonstrate an invention created by the Women's Engineering Class at Simon Kenton High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1929 <![CDATA[Academics Director Francis O'Hara speaks to members of the Simon Kenton High School Women's Engineering Class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 7, 2016]]> image-id:1928 <![CDATA[John Chaney shows the website Instructables to his 7th-grade Innovation Lab students. Students can use the website to find project ideas and how-to guides. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 23, 2016]]> image-id:1927 <![CDATA[Jakob Sponcil, an 8th-grader at Robert D. Campbell Junior High School, built an airbag alternative in his the Innovation Lab. Though Sponcil and his partners did not finish, teacher John Chaney does not base grades on whether or not the projects is finished, but on how much work and passion students put into the process. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 23, 2016]]> image-id:1926 <![CDATA[Trinity Brown helps out a group of 7th-graders with their project proposal. Brown, an 8th-grade honor roll student, helps Chaney in his class and is considering becoming a teacher after her experiences in the class. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 23, 2016]]> image-id:1925 <![CDATA[Robert D. Campbell Junior High Teacher John Chaney talks to 7th-graders Bre'Auna Beatty, left, and Megan Estes about their their project proposal. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 23, 2016]]> image-id:1924 <![CDATA[Spencer County Middle School Principal Matt Mercer runs with students during the running club that is part of the school’s Grizzlies Beyond the Bell after-school program. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 30, 2016]]> image-id:1923 <![CDATA[Karen Leff, coordinator of the Grizzlies Beyond the Bell program at Spencer County Middle School, has recruited volunteers and secured donations for materials for the program’s clubs. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 30, 2016]]> image-id:1922 <![CDATA[Stephen Dodson, a 6th-grader at Spencer County Middle School, eyes a target during the archery club. Students in this club are taught safe shooting skills and are encouraged to try out for the school’s archery team. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 30, 2016]]> image-id:1921 <![CDATA[Spencer County Middle School student Wyatt Buchter works on math homework during the study period at Grizzlies Beyond the Bell. Students can get help from teachers or from peer tutors from Spencer County High School. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 30, 2016]]> image-id:1920 <![CDATA[Spencer County Middle School student Will Moon works on his robot during the Lego robotics club. The club is led by a parent volunteer. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 30, 2016]]> image-id:1919 <![CDATA[021916ScienceOfMusic06]]> image-id:1918 <![CDATA[021916ScienceOfMusic05]]> image-id:1917 <![CDATA[021916ScienceOfMusic04]]> image-id:1916 <![CDATA[Students grow annuals, ferns, vegatables and other plants from the school's new greenhouse which opened in 2015. Photo provided by Simpson County schoolsesy of Simpson County schools]]> image-id:1914 <![CDATA[Franklin-Simpson students learn how to grow and sell plants in the school's green house. Photo provided by Simpson County schools]]> image-id:1913 <![CDATA[Toni Wiley speaks to Owen County Middle School Students about her experience creating a children's book during Operation Preparation at Kentucky State University. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 15, 2016]]> image-id:1912 <![CDATA[Owen County Middle School student Faith House meets with an advisor during Operation Preparation at Kentucky State University. Photo by Bobby Ellis, March 15, 2016]]> image-id:1911 <![CDATA[031416TownHall_ShelbyCounty05_be]]> image-id:1910 <![CDATA[031416TownHall_ShelbyCounty04_be]]> image-id:1909 <![CDATA[031416TownHall_ShelbyCounty03_be]]> image-id:1908 <![CDATA[022216NoviceReduction02]]> image-id:1907 <![CDATA[022216NoviceReduction04]]> image-id:1906 <![CDATA[030816NationalBoard_FranklinCounty12_be]]> image-id:1905 <![CDATA[030816NationalBoard_FranklinCounty09_be]]> image-id:1904 <![CDATA[030816NationalBoard_FranklinCounty06_be]]> image-id:1903 <![CDATA[030716NationalBoardTutoring_FlemmingCounty06_be]]> image-id:1902 <![CDATA[030716NationalBoardTutoring_FlemmingCounty03_be]]> image-id:1901 <![CDATA[Print]]> image-id:1900 <![CDATA[160226_Mike_KSDAcademicbowl06]]> image-id:1899 <![CDATA[160226_Mike_KSDAcademicbowl05]]> image-id:1898 <![CDATA[160226_Mike_KSDAcademicbowl03]]> image-id:1897 <![CDATA[160226_Mike_KSDAcademicbowl02]]> image-id:1896 <![CDATA[160204Blessing HickmanCo7 11502]]> image-id:1895 <![CDATA[160204Blessing HickmanCo9 3297]]> image-id:1894 <![CDATA[160204Blessing HickmanCo4 1093]]> image-id:1893 <![CDATA[160204Blessing HickmanCo5 1099]]> image-id:1892 <![CDATA[160204Blessing HickmanCo6 1103]]> image-id:1891 <![CDATA[160204Blessing HickmanCo1 1086]]> image-id:1890 <![CDATA[160218Marsee KSBBrailleChallenge 1409]]> image-id:1889 <![CDATA[160218Marsee KSBBrailleChallenge 1251]]> image-id:1888 <![CDATA[160218Marsee KSBBrailleChallenge 1321]]> image-id:1887 <![CDATA[160218Marsee KSBBrailleChallenge 1414]]> image-id:1886 <![CDATA[160218Marsee KSBBrailleChallenge 1330]]> image-id:1885 <![CDATA[151207Kelly BeechwoodBlueRibbon 0558]]> image-id:1884 <![CDATA[151207Kelly BeechwoodBlueRibbon 0623]]> image-id:1883 <![CDATA[160204Kelly SCAPABlueRibbon 0129]]> image-id:1882 <![CDATA[160204Kelly SCAPABlueRibbon 0101]]> image-id:1881 <![CDATA[160204Kelly SCAPABlueRibbon 0096]]> image-id:1880 <![CDATA[The Russell Independent school district was recognized as a District of Distinction for the 2014-15 school year by the Kentucky Board of Education at its February meeting. Pictured at the presentation of the District of Distinction banner are, from left, William Twyman, KBE vice chairman; Terry West, Russell Independent Board of Education chairman; John Jones, Russell Independent Board of Education member; Sean Horne, Russell Independent superintendent; and Stephen Pruitt, Kentucky education commissioner. Photo by Mike Marsee, Feb. 3, 2016]]> image-id:1879 <![CDATA[The Hickman County school district was recognized as a District of Distinction for the 2014-15 school year by the Kentucky Board of Education at its February meeting. Pictured at the presentation of the District of Distinction banner are, from left, William Twyman, KBE vice chairman; Allen Kyle, Hickman County Board of Education chairman; Casey Henderson, Hickman County superintendent; and Stephen Pruitt, Kentucky education commissioner. Photo by Mike Marsee, Feb. 3, 2016]]> image-id:1878 <![CDATA[The Fort Thomas Independent school district was recognized as a District of Distinction for the 2014-15 school year by the Kentucky Board of Education at its February meeting. Pictured at the presentation of the District of Distinction banner are, from left, William Twyman, KBE vice chairman; Karen Allen, Fort Thomas Independent Board of Education chairwoman; Gene Kirchner, Fort Thomas Independent superintendent; and Stephen Pruitt, Kentucky education commissioner. Photo by Mike Marsee, Feb. 3, 2016]]> image-id:1877 <![CDATA[The Floyd County school district was recognized as a District of Distinction for the 2014-15 school year by the Kentucky Board of Education at its February meeting. Pictured at the presentation of the District of Distinction banner are, from left, William Twyman, KBE vice chairman; Jeff Stumbo, Floyd County Board of Education chairman; Henry Webb, Floyd County superintendent; and Stephen Pruitt, Kentucky education commissioner. Photo by Mike Marsee, Feb. 3, 2016]]> image-id:1876 <![CDATA[The Calloway County school district was recognized as a District of Distinction for the 2014-15 school year by the Kentucky Board of Education at its February meeting. Pictured at the presentation of the District of Distinction banner are, from left, William Twyman, KBE vice chairman; Brian Wilmurth, Calloway County district assessment coordinator; Tres Settle, Calloway County superintendent; and Stephen Pruitt, Kentucky education commissioner. Photo by Mike Marsee, Feb. 3, 2016]]> image-id:1875 <![CDATA[The University of Kentucky Partnership Institute for Math and Science Education Reform (PIMSER) was recognized as a co-winner of the 2016 Dr. Samuel Robinson Award by the Kentucky Board of Education at the board’s February meeting. Receiving the award were, from left, Stephen Henderson, retired director of the Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative; Kim Zeidler-Watters, director of PIMSER; Diane Johnson, assistant director of PIMSER; and Tim Schneider, teaching leader for secondary education in the Campbell County school district. Photo by Mike Marsee, Feb. 3, 2016]]> image-id:1874 <![CDATA[Murray-Calloway County Playhouse in the Park was recognized as a co-winner of the 2016 Dr. Samuel Robinson Award by the Kentucky Board of Education at the board’s February meeting. Receiving the award were Holly Bloodworth, left, director of the playhouse’s Penguin Project; and Lisa Cope, executive director of the playhouse. 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Photo by Jennifer Ginn, Oct. 20,2015]]> image-id:1805 <![CDATA[Karen Mallonee, a world language/Spanish teacher at College View Middle School (Daviess County) is congratulated by Education Commissioner Stephen L. Pruitt for her selection as the 2016 Middle School Teacher of the Year. Also at the ceremony were Gov. Steve Beshear and Education and Workforce Development Cabinet Secretary Thomas O. Zawacki, far left. Photo by Jennifer Ginn, Oct. 20,2015]]> image-id:1804 <![CDATA[Kentucky Commissioner of Education Stephen L. Pruitt spoke about his admiration of teachers at a ceremony in Frankfort recognizing the 2016 Ashland Inc. Teacher Achievement Award winners. Photo by Jennifer Ginn, Oct. 20,2015]]> image-id:1803 <![CDATA[Students interact with fossil populations and layers of rock to explore change over time. Photo submitted by Brian McDowell]]> image-id:1800 <![CDATA[Dinosaur tracks embedded in concrete allowed additional evidence for student debate. Photo submitted by Brian McDowell]]> image-id:1799 <![CDATA[Mason County Middle School teacher Brian McDowell used life-size paper tracks to simulate a dinosaur trackway allowing students to practice creating and debating claims based on evidence. Photo submitted by Brian McDowell]]> image-id:1798 <![CDATA[Mike Wagers, right, an aeronautics teacher at Frankfort High School (Frankfort Independent), discusses plotting courses with students in one of his classes. The classes at Frankfort also include students from Franklin County, Western Hills (Franklin County) and Anderson County high schools. Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 22, 2015]]> image-id:1797 <![CDATA[Ashton Brooks, a student at Henry County High School, plots a course between two airports during an exercise at the National Air & Space Education Institute at Bowman Field in Louisville. Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 22, 2015]]> image-id:1796 <![CDATA[Tim Smith, left, executive director of the National Air & Space Education Institute, demonstrates a procedure on a flight simulator as Henry County High School student Tristan Hamilton looks on at the institute’s headquarters at Bowman Field in Louisville. Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 22, 2015]]> image-id:1795 <![CDATA[150922 Tell Honorable Mention Chart.png]]> image-id:1794 <![CDATA[Karen McCuiston, director of the Post-Secondary Education and Resource Center at the Kentucky Center for School Safety, shows North Middle School (Hardin County) Youth Services Coordinator Jodie Bodnar, center, and 8th-grade social studies teacher Te’Andra Parker online resources they can use during Kentucky Safe Schools Week. Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 14, 2015]]> image-id:1793 <![CDATA[Karen McCuiston, director of the Post-Secondary Education and Resource Center at the Kentucky Center for School Safety, talks to students who are dressed as superheroes in Kayla Berg’s class at North Middle School (Hardin County) during an anti-bullying event at which students were encouraged to be “school safety superheroes.” Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 14, 2015]]> image-id:1792 <![CDATA[Lea Shewmaker, right, a teacher at Bloomfield Elementary School (Nelson County), watches and waits her turn to participate in an exercise on energy transfer during a session on an elementary STEM unit at the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education Conference at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 11, 2015]]> image-id:1791 <![CDATA[LeAnna Pritchard, a teacher at Wingo Elementary School (Graves County) makes a point during a discussion on flipped classrooms at the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education Conference at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. Photo by Mike Marsee, Sept. 11, 2015]]> image-id:1790 <![CDATA[The Owensboro Innovation Academy is located in The Centre for Business and Research building.Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1789 <![CDATA[Owensboro Innovation Academy head teacher Beth Benjamin talks with students during lunch. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1788 <![CDATA[Lunch time at the Owensboro Innovation Academy. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1787 <![CDATA[Apollo High School (Daviess County) freshman Baily Adams and Owensboro High School (Owensboro Independent) freshman Joseph Hayden find the volume of an irregular object during Allen Hunley's physics class at the Owensboro Innovation Academy. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1786 <![CDATA[Owensboro High School (Owensboro Independent) freshmen Alexus Williams and Samuel Johnson measure the mass of a copper cube during physics class at the Owensboro Innovation Academy. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1785 <![CDATA[Computer science facilitator Mark Moore researches photo editing software with freshman Zachary Martin. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1784 <![CDATA[Students in a world studies/English class work in small groups for a project partnering with the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1783 <![CDATA[Students from Danville High School (Danville Independent) and Burgin Independent work together baking during class at the Kentucky School for the Deaf. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1782 <![CDATA[Students from the Kentucky School for the Deaf, Burgin Independent and Danville Independent attend Sandy Small's small animal science class at KSD. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1781 <![CDATA[Burgin Independent senior Jay Millerworks under the instruction of Kentucky School for the Deaf advanced manufacturing instructor Jay Cloud. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1780 <![CDATA[Infomatics teacher Pamela Draper helps Kentucky School for the Deaf seniors Jonathan Demaree and Jeffery Carter with a project. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24 , 2015]]> image-id:1779 <![CDATA[Print]]> image-id:1778 <![CDATA[Jennifer chart 2]]> image-id:1777 <![CDATA[Jennifer chart 2]]> image-id:1776 <![CDATA[Print]]> image-id:1775 <![CDATA[Marvin McHenry cleans the main hall of Heritage Elementary School (Carter County), a task he does every day.]]> image-id:1774 <![CDATA[Marvin McHenry visits with the cafeteria staff before lunch. Around Christmas, McHenry decorates the staff break room and brings them homemade treats.]]> image-id:1773 <![CDATA[Custodian Marvin McHenry helps preschool students with a project in Rebecca Cales class at Heritage Elementary. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2015]]> image-id:1772 <![CDATA[Marvin McHenry, a custodian at Heritage Elementary School (Carter County) has been named the winner of the 2015 Fred Award. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2015]]> image-id:1771 <![CDATA[First-grade students Braelyn Powell and Alliette Mutone work together during Camp Literacy Live. While the camp originally was designed to keep students from losing skills over the summer months, the teachers soon discovered the students actually gained ground. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1770 <![CDATA[Literacy coach Anne Cochran guides 1st-grade student Abigail Coffey in an interactive writing activity. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1769 <![CDATA[Landon Gibson breaks into a spontaneous chorus of the alphabet song during Camp Literacy Live at La Grange Elementary School. The camp, now in its second year, provides intensive literacy instruction for students selected from three of Oldham County’s nine elementary schools. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1768 <![CDATA[Reading recovery specialist Joni Griffin works with Criss Salas. Griffin worked with four students a day for 30 minutes each day during the camp. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1767 <![CDATA[Abigail Bemiss claps out the syllables of the word rainbow with 1st-grade students. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1766 <![CDATA[Fort Thomas math teacher Jill Terlau, center, and Northern Kentucky University assistant professor Lisa Holden and Aimee Krug talk with teachers after the Math Teachers' Circle at Northern Kentucky University.Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1765 <![CDATA[Highlands Middle School (Fort Thomas Independent) teacher Aaron Lense, center, inquires about using the game Set to explain four dimensions to his students. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1764 <![CDATA[Middle school math teachers play the math game Set during the Math Teachers' Circle at Northern Kentucky University. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1763 <![CDATA[Northern Kentucky University associate professor Aimee Krug, center, helps Beechwood Elementary (Beechwood Independent) teachers Heather Dickman and Eric Fangman solve a problem. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1762 <![CDATA[Kenton County middle school math teacher Tenisha Webb shares a problem solving strategy. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 20, 2015]]> image-id:1761 <![CDATA[Sawyer Donohoo teaches social studies at the Calloway County Alternative Education Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 12, 2015]]> image-id:1760 <![CDATA[Alternative Instructional Facility Director and Principal Travis Anderson helps a student with a math problem at the Calloway County Alternative Education Center and Calloway County Day Treatment Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 12, 2015]]> image-id:1759 <![CDATA[Amy Futrell teaches students how to use a checking account at the Calloway County Alternative Education Center and Calloway County Day Treatment Center. Travis Anderson, the principal at the facility that houses both of the programs, said they both are able to stand out because of a strong commitment from the board of education. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 12, 2015]]> image-id:1758 <![CDATA[Students Tyler Adkins and Hunter Boone work together on an assignment at the Bullitt Alternative Center (Bullitt County). Photo by John Roberts/Bullitt County Schools]]> image-id:1757 <![CDATA[Mike Listerman teaches geometry at the Transformational Learning. Tony Perkins, director of the Covington Independent schools’ alternative program, said staff members focus on developing strong relationships with the students. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1756 <![CDATA[Marty Fedders teaches students how to compose informal writings during class at the Transformational Learning Center in Covington. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1755 <![CDATA[Heidi Furguson practices fractions with her math students at the Transformational Learning Center in the Covington Independent Public Schools, which has one of 11 programs recognized this year as Alternative Programs of Distinction by the Kentucky Department of Education. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1754 <![CDATA[Henderson County High School senior Kati Rhoses guides a student in painting a butterfly. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 11, 2015]]> image-id:1753 <![CDATA[Henderson County High School senior Kati Rhodes helps a student put on an apron before painting. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 11, 2015]]> image-id:1752 <![CDATA[Senior Cammy Hester works with students in the art center. High school students rack up 175 hours working at the preschool for three periods during the school day.]]> image-id:1751 <![CDATA[Jessica Bowling, an arts and humanities teacher in Bath County, and Laura Wilson, a music teacher in Clark County, listen as instructor Donna Lamb demonstrates how to build a cantar. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 13, 2015]]> image-id:1750 <![CDATA[Puppeteer Mary Brown, center, helps Clay County High School adjunct professor Mary Stevens and Shearer Elementary School (Clark County) librarian Anne Hall create their own puppets. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 13, 2015]]> image-id:1749 <![CDATA[Ashland Independent music teacher Leigh Holderness and Rodburn Elementary School (Rowan County) principal Andrea Murray discuss strategies for program reviews with Sarah Evans. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 13, 2015]]> image-id:1748 <![CDATA[Jennifer Gabbert sands her limestone totem during the Learnshops. She carved West African symbols into the block of stone. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 13, 2015]]> image-id:1747 <![CDATA[South Laurel Middle School art teacher Heather Ponder sands a limestone totem she made. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 13, 2015]]> image-id:1746 <![CDATA[Arts Consultant Judy Sizemore discusses how to better prepare program reviews during the Program Review session. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 13, 2015]]> image-id:1745 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Christian Lear runs under a parachute while playing with other campers during the migrant writing camp in Madison County. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2015]]> image-id:1744 <![CDATA[Fifth and 6th-grade student have a good time while working on team building skills during camp. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2015]]> image-id:1743 <![CDATA[Madison County Schools migrant education advocate Rona Comley has lunch with students. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2015]]> image-id:1742 <![CDATA[migrant student summer campPhoto by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2015]]> image-id:1741 <![CDATA[Vivian Bowles, a 4th-grade teacher at Kit Carson Elementary School (Madison County), reads Where the River Begins to students before having them write their own stories. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2015]]> image-id:1740 <![CDATA[Teachers listen to a video featuring Holocaust survivor Irving Roth. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 25, 2015]]> image-id:1739 <![CDATA[Program leader Stephanie Smith discusses the Rwandan genocide during the retreat. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 25, 2015]]> image-id:1738 <![CDATA[Garden Springs Elementary School (Fayette County) 4th-grade teacher Austen Reilley looks over materials presented during the Social Justice-Centered Classrooms: A Writing and Thinking Retreat at General Butler State Resort Park. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 25, 2015]]> image-id:1737 <![CDATA[Jennifer Collins, a teacher at Ockerman Middle School (Boone County), offers activity suggestions during Joanna Stevens presentation. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2015]]> image-id:1736 <![CDATA[Lincoln County High School teacher Joanna Stevens shares activities that she uses to engage her students in math during the 3rd annual Let's TALK conference. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2015]]> image-id:1735 <![CDATA[Veronica Sharber, a special education teacher at Hopkins County Central High School, discusses new activities to use students during Joanna Stevens' presentation. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2015]]> image-id:1734 <![CDATA[Robin Burr shares classroom activities that can be used with the Next Generation Science Standards during her presentation. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2015]]> image-id:1733 <![CDATA[Cassie Reding gives detailed instructions on using Google Classroom and Google Drive during the 3rd annual Let's TALK conference. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2015]]> image-id:1732 <![CDATA[Teachers work in small groups reviewing the activities of the day. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 10, 2015]]> image-id:1731 <![CDATA[Retired Franklin County teacher Fran Bradshaw, left, and Winburn Middle School (Fayette County) teacher Karen Conner review items that highlight the author's craft in the book Minty by Alan Schroeder and Jerry Pinkney. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 10, 2015]]> image-id:1730 <![CDATA[Abby Brown, a 1st-grade teacher at Cane Ridge Elementary School (Bourbon County), and Sara Porter, a ESL teacher in Montgomery County, review the children's book Nighttime Ninja by Barbara DaCosta and Ed Young during the KWP Focus on English Language Learners & Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Students PD at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 10, 2015]]> image-id:1729 <![CDATA[Special education department head Mary Wright discusses summer professional development opportunities with 2nd-grade teacher Jessica Hancock at Bell Elementary School (Wayne County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 20, 2015]]> image-id:1728 <![CDATA[Second-grade teachers Sarah Bertram and Hannah Parmley work together on a lesson plan at Bell Elementary School (Wayne County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 20, 2015]]> image-id:1727 <![CDATA[Bell Elementary School (Wayne County) principal Derrick Harris, right, discusses the school's data wall with teachers during a meeting. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 20, 2015]]> image-id:1726 <![CDATA[AP English teacher Tammi Starrett has has lunch with a group of juniors at McCreary Central High School (McCreary County). Teachers take turns using the courtyard area of the school. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 20, 2015]]> image-id:1725 <![CDATA[Joe Waters, Mark Johnson and Benji Burchett have lunch in the teachers lounge at McCreary Central High School (McCreary County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 20, 2015]]> image-id:1724 <![CDATA[McCreary Central High School (McCreary County) Principal Sharon Privett and Assistant Principal Rick Kenney discuss the results of the TELL survey with members of the school's leadership team. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 20, 2015]]> image-id:1723 <![CDATA[Faye Smith monitors the hall between classes. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 17, 2015]]> image-id:1722 <![CDATA[Noah Wirth listens as Faye Smith teaches about quadratic equations. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 17, 2015]]> image-id:1721 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Marian Tiemeier works in a small group during Faye Smith's Algebra 1 class. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 17, 2015]]> image-id:1720 <![CDATA[Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year Faye Smith laughs with students during her Algebra 1 class. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 17, 2015]]> image-id:1719 <![CDATA[Faye Smith helps Cedar Schneider with quadratic equations. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 17, 2015]]> image-id:1718 <![CDATA[Science teachers Sarah White and B.W. Thornton talk with 8th-grade student Ben Richey in the outdoor classroom space at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 26, 2015]]> image-id:1717 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade students Ethan Clayburn and Cameron Rice test the water of Dry Run Creek at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). The creek runs through the school property and teachers are able to use the space for outdoor learning. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 26, 2015]]> image-id:1716 <![CDATA[As a member of the Power Police, 8th-grade student Ben Richey leaves a notice on the door of an empty classroom to turn the lights off at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 26, 2015]]> image-id:1715 <![CDATA[Science teacher Thomas Reed helps 6th-grade students Jamez Brooks and Antyana Cowan determine the pH levels of the tilapia tank as part of the aquaponics system at Bryan Station Middle School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2015]]> image-id:1714 <![CDATA[Students at Bryan Station Middle School (Fayette County) grow basil and raise tilapia in their aquaponics system. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2015]]> image-id:1713 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Macy Helton and Alli Atwell present to a class about the aquaponics system they work with in class at Bryan Station Middle School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2015]]> image-id:1712 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Alli Atwell, Macy Helton and Mason Moore check the pH levels of the school's aquaponics system at Bryan Station Middle School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2015]]> image-id:1711 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Emily Hopkins and Cady Cooley harvest from the winter garden at Pikeville Elementary School (PIkeville Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 28, 2015]]> image-id:1710 <![CDATA[Molly Coleman and Chloe Roberts drill holes in a small log to create a mason bee house for their garden. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 28, 2015]]> image-id:1709 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Merrick Byers adds organic waste to the compost barrel near the garden. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 28, 2015]]> image-id:1708 <![CDATA[Third-grade students watch as Traci Tackett helps 2nd-grade student Luke McName drill holes in a small log to create a mason bee house for the students' garden. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 28, 2015]]> image-id:1707 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Austin Huynh gets ready to drill while making a house for mason bees. The students are hoping to attract the bees to pollinate their garden. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 28, 2015]]> image-id:1706 <![CDATA[Students in Nicole Freyburger's 2nd-grade class are eager to give an example of alliteration. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1705 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Caleb Trejo, Talynn Burton and Shayden Anderson read out loud as a group for fluency practice. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1704 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Fayth Griffin answers questions that check for comprehension after reading a passage about voting. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1703 <![CDATA[Caleb Trejo "reads for pleasure", as his teacher Nicole Freyburger calls it, before class gets underway at Glenn O. Swing Elementary School (Covington Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 7, 2015]]> image-id:1702 <![CDATA[AmeriCorps volunteer Celia Miller tests Shane Wenzel for benchmark assessments at Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1701 <![CDATA[Bethany Lyles plays an adding and subtracting game with students in her class at Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1700 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student John Turner raises his hand to answer a question about relative pronouns during class at Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1699 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Kylie Jones multiplies fractions in April Galloway's Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1698 <![CDATA[First-grade student Cami Ball finishes an addition worksheet during Marla English's class at Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1697 <![CDATA[First-grade student Jett Seidel leads the class in the mooring routine of deciding information about the day like what day of the week it is and what the weather is like during substitute teacher Marla English's class at Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1696 <![CDATA[Special Education teacher Crystal Fires helps Harli Hanisch and Cevin Prater with an assignment on measuring volume at Central Elementary School (Marshall County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 21, 2015]]> image-id:1695 <![CDATA[Heather Allen helps her classmate Kyle Norris with multiplication problems during Cecilea Stephens' 3rd-grade class. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015]]> image-id:1694 <![CDATA[Conner Stroud looks for a book to read after finishing an assignment in Whittany Shaw's class. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015]]> image-id:1693 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Marshall Wray, Layla Gearlds, Brandon Bowas, Austin Sutton and Adriana Pascual perform a science experiment to see how mass effects speed. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015]]> image-id:1692 <![CDATA[Lindsey Clarkson's 5th-grade social studies class reviews for an end of the year test. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015]]> image-id:1691 <![CDATA[Dustin Gay, Dustin Gay, a 4th-grade student in Andrea Starnes' class, reviews an informational text piece about pandas. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015a 4th-grade student in Andrea Starnes' class, reviews an informational text piece about pandas at Tompkinsville Elementary School (Monroe County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015]]> image-id:1690 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Karla Cloyd helps students with math manipulatives to create shapes while learning about the different types of angles at Tompkinsville Elementary School (Monroe County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 20, 2015]]> image-id:1689 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade student Azriel Senglebach listens as volunteer Alex Swearingen talks about the math and engineering concepts used in bike assembly. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 13, 2015]]> image-id:1688 <![CDATA[Student Majdaah Salaah and Chuck Kohl, a community volunteer from Fidelity Investments, work together to assemble a bike. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 13, 2015]]> image-id:1687 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Azriel Senglebach and Anthony Brockman assemble a bike under the supervision of GE volunteer Alex Swearinger. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 13, 2015]]> image-id:1686 <![CDATA[Volunteer Fang Ping holds the wheel steady as 7th-grade student Elijah Crosby tightens the bolts. Crosby said being in the club has boosted his courage and confidence. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 13, 2015]]> image-id:1685 <![CDATA[Santha Fitzgerald, volunteer Kelvin Sanborn and Luke Lack prepare to work on their bike. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 13, 2015]]> image-id:1684 <![CDATA[Holmes Middle School (Covington Independent) teacher Jeff Haney, center, checks in on groups during the STEM Bike Club at the school. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 13, 2015]]> image-id:1683 <![CDATA[150410BoydCHS1329.JPG]]> image-id:1682 <![CDATA[150410BoydCHS1296.JPG]]> image-id:1681 <![CDATA[150410BoydCHS1290.JPG]]> image-id:1680 <![CDATA[150410BoydCHS1277.JPG]]> image-id:1679 <![CDATA[150410BoydCHS1258.JPG]]> image-id:1678 <![CDATA[Seniors Michael Harman, Amber Chesnut and Ashley Hollin research volcanoes. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 9, 2015]]> image-id:1677 <![CDATA[Seniors Hunter Hines and Garrett Baldwin research the effects of volcanoes on the color of the ocean during Stephanie Harmon's earth science class at Rockcastle County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 9, 2015]]> image-id:1676 <![CDATA[Senior Kendra Engle researches earthquakes. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 9, 2015]]> image-id:1675 <![CDATA[Seniors Kayla Lawson and Destiny Fox create a poster answering questions about floods, hurricanes and fault lines during Stephanie Harmon’s earth science class at Rockcastle County High School. Student engagement is a key component in Harmon’s classes, and “talk partners” make the students more accountable and better able to communicate their ideas. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 9, 2015]]> image-id:1674 <![CDATA[Robotics draws a big crowd during the STLP state competition. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 26, 2015]]> image-id:1673 <![CDATA[Geek Squad member Adam Rogers teaches Shelby County West Middle School 7th-grade students how to work on a tablet. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 26, 2015]]> image-id:1672 <![CDATA[Charles Russell Elementary School (Ashland Independent) 6th-grade students Kaleb Kohut and Eli Miller practice before their presentation on a digital driver's license app. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 26, 2015]]> image-id:1671 <![CDATA[Christian County Middle School 8th-grade students Daijah Leavell, Dakijah Walton and Jurnee Tandy practice their presentation for their project on how to stay safe on social media. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 26, 2015]]> image-id:1670 <![CDATA[Aaron Houston, Caleb Cornwell, Luis Aguilar and Taylor Balkey, all students at Symsonia Elementary School (Graves County), set up their project display. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 26, 2015]]> image-id:1669 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday talks with 3rd-grade students Landon Brown and Rayna Roberts at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 20, 2011]]> image-id:1667 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday and English teacher Andrea Tilly visit sophomore Kalen Thomas at home before the start of the school year during the Home Visit Blitz in Henderson County. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 31, 2012]]> image-id:1666 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday directs the band during practice of O Magnum Mysterium at Murray High School (Murray Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:1665 <![CDATA[First-grade student Tayshaun Carter and Commissioner Terry Holliday practice high and low notes with tone bells during Kim Black's music class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). The commissioner was touring the district. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:1664 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday, Gov. Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear celebrate all 173 Kentucky school districts raising the dropout age from 16 to 18 during a press conference at the Capitol. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 29, 2015]]> image-id:1663 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday adds one more zero to the award amount, for a total of $25,000, to be given to the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner at Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1662 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday pins Hart County on a map in his office, completing his goal to visit all 174 Kentucky school districts. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 16, 2013]]> image-id:1661 <![CDATA[reached his goal of visiting all of Kentucky's school districts. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1660 <![CDATA[Preschool student Bowen Carmen clips a piece of paper to an art easel with help from Commissioner Terry Holliday at Green County Primary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1659 <![CDATA[Madison Veach laughs as her classmates give a presentation on Zeus during Lauren Coomes' 4th-grade class at Estes Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1658 <![CDATA[Graci Ballard adds small bears to a homemade solve the problem if she or her friends has more bears during Donna Howard's preschool class at Whitesville Elementary School (Daviess County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1657 <![CDATA[Tobias Johnson laughs as his partner Trent Bryan displays the Posiden mask they made for their presentation on Greek mythology during Lauren Coomes' 4th-grade class at Estes Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1656 <![CDATA[Lori Price, coordinator of student/family support services for Pulaski County Schools, talks with a freshman student about his concerns with new classes he is enrolling in. Price uses the Check & Connect intervention system to foster engagement with students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 12, 2015]]> image-id:1655 <![CDATA[Gavin Morris choses a math tool to use during Donna Howard's preschool class at Whitesville Elementary School (Daviess County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1654 <![CDATA[Sophomores Andy Kite and Alexis Sheldon do lunges for P.E. teacher Rhonda Smith during her lifetime fitness and leisure studies class at Lloyd High School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2015]]> image-id:1653 <![CDATA[Lindsay Pritchett, a teacher for visually impaired students in Anderson County, learns how to play goalball during the Adaptive Sports and Curriculum for Physical Education professional development held at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1652 <![CDATA[Science teacher JoAnn Hall helps 7th-grade student Caitlin Wels explore careers in the business field at Hazard Middle School (Hazard Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 10, 2015]]> image-id:1651 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday during the TELL-Kentucky survey kickoff event at Saffell Street Elementary School (Anderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2, 2015]]> image-id:1650 <![CDATA[Anderson County Middle School 8th-grade students Alan Burkhead, Dalton Beasley and Ryan Madden discuss career options in agriculture with Eddie Reed and John Sedlacek during Operation Preparation at Kentucky State University. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2015]]> image-id:1649 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Pam Young helps preschool student Braylee Roberts color a picture of a cat during class in Owen County. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2015]]> image-id:1648 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Gale Mullins helps preschool student Angela O'Neal with counting ad sorting in Owen County. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2015]]> image-id:1647 <![CDATA[Preschool teacher Felechia Wainscott reads an alphabet book about construction to her class and then themed all of her centers that day around construction and city building. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2015]]> image-id:1646 <![CDATA[History teacher Andrew Burgoon reviews notes with freshman Desani Lewis at Elkhorn Crossing School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 20, 2015]]> image-id:1645 <![CDATA[Law teacher Michael Tackett swears in members of the jury to serve on the trial of Brutus for the murder of Julius Caesar in the Law and Justice Village at Elkhorn Crossing School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 20, 2015]]> image-id:1644 <![CDATA[Freshman Olivia Bryan presents a guilty verdict from the jury during a trial in the Law and Justice Village at Elkhorn Crossing School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 20, 2015]]> image-id:1643 <![CDATA[Technology instructor Jeff Clair helps 7th-grade students Angel Gay, Tori Smith and Hailey Stamper with their individual learning plans at Hazard Middle School (Hazard Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 10, 2015]]> image-id:1642 <![CDATA[Hazard Middle School (Hazard Independent) counselor Sharon Noble guides 7th-grade students through the Career Cruising section of their ILPs. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 10, 2015]]> image-id:1641 <![CDATA[Timothy Owsley reads about a career as a computer hardware engineer. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 10, 2015]]> image-id:1640 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade students Kaleigh Parker and Mackezie Chander explore health science careers while working on career options in their ILPs. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 10, 2015]]> image-id:1639 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Madison Howard and Heidi Hicks swing each other while square dancing in a collaboration class with P.E. teacher John Hazlett and music teacher Amy Harrod. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 19, 2015]]> image-id:1638 <![CDATA[Jessamine County district arts and humanities coordinator Jessica Greene records square dancing at Rosenwald-Dunbar Elementary School (Jessamine County). She is making videos of the music programs at all of the district schools and sharing them through social media. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 19, 2015]]> image-id:1637 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Aaliyah Crutcher claps along while square dancing. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 19, 2015]]> image-id:1636 <![CDATA[David Wickstrom, with Independence Place, instructs teachers how to play goalball by following the guide lines on the floor. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1632 <![CDATA[Lindsay Pritchett, a teacher for visually impaired students in Anderson County, learns how to play goalball during the Adaptive Sports and Curriculum for Physical Education professional development held at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1631 <![CDATA[Paralympic athlete Amanda Dennis demonstrates blocking techniques for goalball. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1630 <![CDATA[Paris High School (Paris Independent) teacher Stephen McCauley ties on a blindfold before running with a tethered partner. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1629 <![CDATA[Teachers try running with a tethered partner, like visually impaired athletes do, during the Adaptive Sports and Curriculum for Physical Education professional development. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1628 <![CDATA[Paralympic athlete Lex Gillette talks with participants at Adaptive Sports and Curriculum for Physical Education professional development about how important it was that his P.E. teachers included him in class despite his blindness. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2015]]> image-id:1627 <![CDATA[Seniors Mike Fifer and and Jaquan Evans do push-ups as part of the fitness scavenger hunt at Lloyd High School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2015]]> image-id:1626 <![CDATA[Sophomores Andy Kite and Alexis Sheldon do lunges for P.E. teacher Rhonda Smith at Lloyd High School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2015]]> image-id:1625 <![CDATA[P.E. teacher Rhonda Smith watches Meagan Sipple do jumping jacks as part of the fitness scavenger hunt in her lifetime fitness and leisure studies class at Lloyd High School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2015]]> image-id:1624 <![CDATA[First-grade student Gariona Sturgis hula hoops at Tates Creek Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2015]]> image-id:1623 <![CDATA[Daniel Hill encourages 1st-grade student Caleb Million to participate in the gallop/slide center at Tates Creek Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2015]]> image-id:1622 <![CDATA[Daniel Hill's P.E. class at Tates Creek Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2015]]> image-id:1621 <![CDATA[Lori Price, coordinator of student/family support services for Pulaski County Schools, talks with a freshman student about his concerns with new classes he is enrolling in. Price uses the Check & Connect intervention system to foster engagement with students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 12, 2015]]> image-id:1620 <![CDATA[Dusty Phelps, a psychologist with Pulaski County Schools, leads a RTI PBIS meeting at Pulaski County High School. Phelps said one of the goals with the new training will be to instruct teachers on how to recognize early signs of mental health problems with their students, so the students can receive services earlier.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 12, 2015]]> image-id:1619 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Peyton Campbell look at pictures of Chinese currency, yuan, at Clay Elementary School (Webster County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1618 <![CDATA[Ryan Hazelwood answers a question about Chinese currency during Crystal Harris' 2nd-grade class at Clay Elementary School (Webster County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1617 <![CDATA[Mary Fryer instructs 3rd-grade student Weston Wint what to do after finishing his aboriginal art inspired pairing at Clay Elementary School (Webster County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1616 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Alex Reynolds, Heiress Lehman, Beth Reynolds and Payton Nally paint in a dot style to mimic aboriginal art at Clay Elementary School (Webster County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1615 <![CDATA[Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Donna Hargens, Commissioner Terry Holliday and Stopher Elementary Principal Brigitte Owens tour classrooms. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1614 <![CDATA[Art teacher Amy Siwicki helps 3rd-grade student Lauren Godwin with her sand painting. The class was learning about Native American art and creating works inspired by it. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1613 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Rhonda Hester leads a dice game 1st-grade students were playing to work on their sight words. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1612 <![CDATA[Preschool student Sydney Minucci plays a matching game on the computer. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1611 <![CDATA[Every 1 Reads volunteer Rod Kincaid works with 3rd-grade student Oliver Chavez-Albarado in the library. Kincaid and his wife, a retired teacher, live in the neighborhood and volunteer at the school once a week. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2015]]> image-id:1610 <![CDATA[Wyatt Roby wears the mathematician hat while solving a problem. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1609 <![CDATA[Brady Barnett choses a math tool to use. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1608 <![CDATA[Graci Ballard adds small bear math manipulatives to a homemade balance scale to solve the problem "if she or her friend has more bears" during Donna Howard's class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1607 <![CDATA[Preschool teacher Donna Howard asks Dakota Postlewaite to chose a math tool that will help him measure shoe size if he were an employee at a local shoe store during class at Whitesville Elementary School (Daviess County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2015]]> image-id:1606 <![CDATA[Lee Alan Roher helps junior Summer Lawson measure angles during geometry class atKSD. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1605 <![CDATA[After working with deaf students who had been mainstreamed into Boyle County Schools, Lee Alan Roher thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to teach at KSD. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1604 <![CDATA[KSD junior Jeffery Carter works on algebra problem out on the smart board in Lee Alan Roher's class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1603 <![CDATA[With the help of sign language interpreter Russell Anderson, left, Lee Alan Roher, right, teaches algebra at the Kentucky School for the Deaf. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1602 <![CDATA[Senior Alex Prather takes a dual credit welding class offered though West Kentucky Community and Technical College at Mayfield/Graves County ATC. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 10, 2014]]> image-id:1601 <![CDATA[Senior Nathan Sanderson takes a dual credit machine tool class through West Kentucky Community and Technical College at Mayfield/Graves County ATC. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 10, 2014]]> image-id:1600 <![CDATA[Health science instructor Brandi Hungerford works with students in Medicaid Nurse Aide 100, a dual-credit class at Mayfield/Graves County ATC offered through West Kentucky Community and Technical CollegeMayfield/Graves County ATC. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 10, 2014]]> image-id:1599 <![CDATA[Racheal Day and Natalie Hackel check the pulse and blood pressure of classmate Maryssa Crook during Medicaid Nurse Aide 100, a dual-credit class at Mayfield/Graves County ATC offered through West Kentucky Community and Technical College. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 10, 2014]]> image-id:1598 <![CDATA[Seniors Marley McCollum and Miranda Wheeler turn a closed bed into an open bed during Medicaide Nurse Aide 100, a dual-credit class at Mayfield/Graves County ATC offered through West Kentucky Community and Technical College. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 10, 2014]]> image-id:1597 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday congratulates Allyson Vitato after she was named the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1596 <![CDATA[Allyson Vitato thanks the students who helped surprise her in being named the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1595 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Stella Gootee applauds her principal being named the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1594 <![CDATA[Allyson Vitato, principal at Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School (Jefferson County), is surprised when her name is called as the winner of the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award. Also pictured at center is JCPS superintendent Donna Hargens. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1593 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday adds one more zero to the award amount, for a total of $25,000, to be given to the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1592 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Jeremy Metcalf suggests an educator could by pencils and crayons with $25 as Milken Education Awards senior vice president Jane Foley starts to unveil the award amount during the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award assembly at Breckinridge-Franklin Elementary School (Jefferson County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2015]]> image-id:1591 <![CDATA[Freshman John-Paul Cesare, Jordan Dixon and Amanda Brock use interactive maps to review geography during David Mudd's AP human geography class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 8, 2015]]> image-id:1590 <![CDATA[Freshman Caitlyn Binkley and junior Megan Edlin use interactive maps to review geography. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 8, 2015]]> image-id:1589 <![CDATA[Food science teacher John Hammond helps junior Hannah Blair with her assignment. The students were working in groups, using Google docs, to create a safety plan for a sandwich company. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 8, 2015]]> image-id:1588 <![CDATA[English teacher Tori Mousty gives instructions for an assignment during her class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 8, 2015]]> image-id:1587 <![CDATA[Freshman Rachel Halyard starts her assignment on a Chromebook in Tori Mousty's English class at. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 8, 2015]]> image-id:1586 <![CDATA[Seniors Matt Johnson and Kaleb Flener and sophomore Logan Husband work together on a class assignment in the library at Thomas Nelson High School (Nelson County) using Chromebooks. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 8, 2015]]> image-id:1585 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Jake Childress creates his name floating in the sky in Minecraft based of instructions a classmate wrote for him. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 7, 2015]]> image-id:1584 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Stacie Kegley looks over the football field 5th-grade student Michaela Ehrhardt is creating in Minecraft using instructions her partner Mackenzie Schneeman wrote.  Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 7, 2015]]> image-id:1583 <![CDATA[Superintendent James FlynnPhoto by Amy Wallot, Dec. 4, 2014]]> image-id:1582 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Jacob Traughber, Gustavo Ramirez and Javarius Rogan share with Superintendent James Flynn their plans on controlling their robot during Stephen Guthrie's robotics class at Lincoln Elementary School (Simpson County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 4, 2014]]> image-id:1581 <![CDATA[Superintendent James Flynn talks with sophomore Will Yates during Operation Preparation about Yates' plans for college. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 4, 2014]]> image-id:1580 <![CDATA[Junior Hannah Jackson and Brittany Alley mix sodium with phenolphthalein to watch for a chemical reaction. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2015]]> image-id:1579 <![CDATA[Joshua Underwood gives directions for the next experiment his chemistry class will be performing at Mason County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2015]]> image-id:1578 <![CDATA[Joshua Underwood watches junior Hannah Jackson and Brittany Alley mix sodium with phenolphthalein to watch for a chemical reaction during his chemistry class at Mason County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2015]]> image-id:1577 <![CDATA[Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year Joshua Underwood gives a piece of sodium to junior Justin Conrad, sophomore Braiden Hickman and junior Peter Maurer to perform an experiment on looking for signs of a chemical reaction. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2015]]> image-id:1576 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Gabriel Jones and Maxwell Jaggers listen to DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County) students teach science concepts in Spanish. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1575 <![CDATA[DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County) seniors Bianca Menendez, Issac Domenech and Neela Saha teach the period table of the elements in Spanish to Hawthorne Elementary School students. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1574 <![CDATA[Ana Castro, Spanish teacher at DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County), works the room checking on her students as they teach science lessons to elementary students at Hawthorne Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1573 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Nina Valdez smiles while answering science questions with DuPont Manual High School senior Issac Domenech as part of their Spanish Immersion program. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1572 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Maxwell Jaggers listens to DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County) students give a lesson about the periodic table in Spanish. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1571 <![CDATA[Amy Orberson helps 2nd-grade students Sarah Boyd and Addie Cross match three-digit numbers to visual representations of the numbers during her class at Woodlawn Elementary School (Boyle County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1570 <![CDATA[Omi Bass explains her mathematics answer to her partner Brinley Samons. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1569 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Eli Langhan and Maya Smith match 3-digit numbers with their corresponding flash cards at Woodlawn Elementary School (Boyle County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1568 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Tanya Sizemore uses the library to work with a small group of students on their reading skills. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1567 <![CDATA[Brenda Folley helps 1st-grade student Aayden King with math skills in the library. The library has plenty of space to work with students one-on-one or in small or large groups. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1566 <![CDATA[First-grade student Cam Estep works on a computer in one section of the library. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1565 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Tanya Sizemore works on reading skills with 1st-grade students Brianna Moses and Aden McLain in the library. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1564 <![CDATA[After checking out books, students find spots on the floor and read together. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1563 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Emma Walters and Savannah James check out books at Corbin Primary School (Corbin Independent). The students are taught to be self-sufficient when using the library. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 2, 2014]]> image-id:1562 <![CDATA[AP language arts teacher Daniell Bogg reviews a quiz with her class at East Carter High School (Carter County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2014]]> image-id:1561 <![CDATA[Junior Margaret Collins stands with her data notebook at East Carter High School (Carter County). Her notebook contains information about her testing results, benchmark scores and assignment information. Principal Larry Kiser said the students "own their own data."Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2014]]> image-id:1560 <![CDATA[East Carter High School (Carter County) counselor Shelia Porter recognizes seniors who meet college or career readiness benchmarks with a bulletin board of ribbons and t-shirts. Amelia Robinson, Darrek Fannin and Katie Smith have all had their names placed on the board. All three are interested in medical professions. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2014]]> image-id:1559 <![CDATA[Participants in Kristen Hale's, at left, drama enrichment class performed The Addams Family for multiple shows for students and the community. Hale, the school's library media specialist, said teaching the enrichment class allowed her to work one-on-one with more students and feel more involved with the school. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 20, 2014]]> image-id:1558 <![CDATA[During an enrichment period of the Red Zone, students in Connie Harless' class, second from left, made no-sew blankets and pillow cases to donate to children's hospitals at Sheldon Clark High School (Martin County). Also pictured are senior Kaitlyn McCoy, Alexis Williams and Erica Ball. Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 20, 2014]]> image-id:1557 <![CDATA[Seniors Brianne Davis, Jessica Lowe and Logan Pemberton hand out plans for advisor/advisee sessions at Sheldon Clark High School (Martin County). Photo by Amy Wallot Nov. 20, 2014]]> image-id:1556 <![CDATA[Assistant Principal Steven Stark and Principal Deb Rivera talk with Kentucky Teacher of the Year Sarah Reed, center, at Field Elementary School (Jefferson County). Rivera attended the ceremony in Frankfort and said she wasn't surprised when Reed was named TOY because she is a great teacher. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1555 <![CDATA[Steven Russell asks his 3rd-grade teacher Sarah Reed when it was she decided to become a teacher. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1554 <![CDATA[Emma Tucker, Steven Russell and Paige Franklin play with the class pet rat, Albany, during Sarah Reed's class. Franklin was taking the rat home for the weekend. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1553 <![CDATA[Sarah Reed reviews numerators and denominators with a small group during her 3rd-grade class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1552 <![CDATA[Brennan Wrath and William Stone laugh while reading Halloween by Jerry Seinfeld during Sarah Reed's 3rd-grade class at Field Elementary School (Jefferson County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1551 <![CDATA[Senior Chauntey Gilmore places a ticket he received for positive behavior in the drop box in the main hallway at Madisonville North Hopkins High School (Hopkins County). Each week 10 tickets are drawn out of the box and the student names are read over the PA, the students receive a small prize and are thanked for making positive choices. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 16, 2014]]> image-id:1550 <![CDATA[Bus drivers Jonna Moore and Laurie Cowan pass out tickets to students who show good behavior while riding the bus in Hopkins County.Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 16, 2014]]> image-id:1549 <![CDATA[First-grade students Brooklyn Vernon and Liddie Burtin have lunch at Earlington Elementary School (Hopkins High School). Cafeteria expectations at the school include talking quietly and cleaning up your mess. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 16, 2014]]> image-id:1548 <![CDATA[Behavior expectations are posted at various locations through out Madisonville North Hopkins High School (Hopkins County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 16, 2014]]> image-id:1547 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Josh Martin was named the whale done student of the week at Earlington Elementary School (Hopkins High School). He received the recognition, and t-shirt, for being friendly to a new student at the school.Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 16, 2014]]> image-id:1546 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday tells the students and staff of Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent) what a rarity being named a Blue Ribbon School is and that they should be proud. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1545 <![CDATA[Art teacher Nikki Everett explains to 2nd-grade student Noah Huber how to mix colors to create a new one at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1544 <![CDATA[Annelle Scully and Sylvie Martin draw a best friends heart together during Nikki Evertt's art class at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1543 <![CDATA[Aimee Shadwell reads George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl to her 3rd-grade class at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1542 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students hold up answer cards for a science quiz game during Kim Schnier's class at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1541 <![CDATA[Case Grillot measures angles during Katie Huber's 5th-grade class ay Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1540 <![CDATA[Chloe Bramble practices for her groups commercial persuading settlers to choose Jamestown during Josh Feldmann's 5th-grade class at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1539 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Josh Feldmann clarifies information about the Plymouth Colony a group of students at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent). They were creating a commercial encouraging settlers to choose their colony. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1538 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Jerri Payne covers nouns and synonyms with a small group at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2014]]> image-id:1537 <![CDATA[Eminence Independent teacher Liam Corley asks a question during the EdCamp Kentucky. Photo by James Allen/Oldham County Schools, Oct. 25, 2014]]> image-id:1536 <![CDATA[Matt Bubka, an instructor at Thomas Nelson High School (Nelson County), presents on incorporating video games in the classroom.Photo by James Allen/Oldham County Schools, Oct. 25, 2014]]> image-id:1535 <![CDATA[Participants in the EdCamp Kentucky attended sessions on innovation in the classroom.Photo by James Allen/Oldham County Schools, Oct. 25, 2014]]> image-id:1534 <![CDATA[Thomas Nelson High School (Nelson County) Vice Principal of School Culture and Instruction and event organizer Heather Warrell displays the event hashtag on her shirt. Photo by James Allen/Oldham County Schools, Oct. 25, 2014]]> image-id:1533 <![CDATA[Tricia Shelton gives sophomores Donovan Sullivan and Karlie Roth a reading assignment after they finish an experiment during anatomy class at Boone County High School.They were to use the two pieces of evidence, the experiment and the article, to come to a conclusion about how body systems interact. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1532 <![CDATA[Sophomore Grace Osterbrock and junior Airelle McStoots tweet out their experiment results during Tricia Shelton's anatomy class at Boone County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1531 <![CDATA[Sophomore Amanda Nelson examines her fish during an experiment learning how body systems interact with each other. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1530 <![CDATA[Seniors Alexis Switzer and Caitlin Robinson check the temperature of their experiment. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1529 <![CDATA[Seniors Madison Funke, Emily Graham and Jordan True monitor the breathing rate of a gold fish in changing water temperature. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1528 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Heidi Neltner teaches internet safety to with kindergarten students at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent). Neltner was sharing the story of Faux Paw The Techno Cat from iKeepSafe.org.Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1527 <![CDATA[Kindergarten students look for books to check out at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1526 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Parker Moses listens to library media specialist Heidi Neltner read about Faux Paw The Techno Cat at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1525 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Heidi Neltner shows kindergarten student Elias Spaw a few books he might want to check out at Johnson Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014]]> image-id:1524 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Nathalie Puntos and Allison Davis work on their portraits. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2014]]> image-id:1523 <![CDATA[Third-grade students create self portraits in the style of American artist James Rizzi during Valynn Spearman's art class at Allen County Primary Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2014]]> image-id:1522 <![CDATA[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers archaeologist Valerie McCormack talks about vandalism at the Natural Arch in McCreary County. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 9, 2014]]> image-id:1521 <![CDATA[Jones Park Elementary School 5th-grade teacher Angela Buis takes a selfie with Jonesy, a stuffed panther and school mascot, at the Natural Arch. Buis takes pictures of Jonesy at various locations and incorporates them into her lesson plans. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 9, 2014]]> image-id:1520 <![CDATA[Monticello Elementary School (Wayne County) 5th-grade teacher Cyndi Neal, Colony Elementary School (Laurel County) 5th-grade teacher and Burgin Independent social studies teacher Mimi Becker examine the Natural Arch area as they work on an activity to plan out how to use the shelter space as a communal home during Project Archaeology tours Natural Arch in McCreary County.Photo by Amy Wallot, July 9, 2014]]> image-id:1519 <![CDATA[Teachers examined the Natural Arch as they walked under it duringProject Archaeology tours Natural Arch in McCreary County.Photo by Amy Wallot, July 9, 2014]]> image-id:1518 <![CDATA[Archaeologist Gwynn Anderson, right, talks with a group of teachers about a small fragment of tool found at Natural Arch. They discussed how and when the object may have got there. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 9, 2014]]> image-id:1517 <![CDATA[Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear spoke with a group of educators about the importance of art education and shared what living in the Governor's Mansion is like during a recent tour. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 9, 2014]]> image-id:1506 <![CDATA[Teachers examine a Soviet ZPU anti-aircraft gun found by the Kentucky National Guard during Operation Desert Storm. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2014]]> image-id:1505 <![CDATA[Kenton Elementary School (Kenton County) teacher Lisa Reynolds takes notes about a Civil War-era volley gun during a tour of the Kentucky Military History Museum. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2014]]> image-id:1504 <![CDATA[Tim Talbott, teacher professional development coordinator for the Kentucky Historical Society, and Kenton Elementary School (Kenton County) teacher Lisa Reynolds discuss the display showing items carried by soldiers during World War I. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2014]]> image-id:1503 <![CDATA[Henry Clay High School (Fayette County) teacher Jonathan McClintock examines a weapons case at the Kentucky Military History Museum. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 23, 2014]]> image-id:1502 <![CDATA[Students use dip nets to explore the contents of the pond at Glenn Marshall Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 9, 2014]]> image-id:1501 <![CDATA[Eastern Kentucky University Associate Professor Stephen Richter holds a tadpole that was found by Glenn Marshall Elementary School (Madison County) students using dip nets in the school's pond. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 9, 2014]]> image-id:1500 <![CDATA[Eastern Kentucky University Assistant Professor David Brown holds a robin as he shows students at Glenn Marshall Elementary School (Madison County) how to catch and band birds. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 9, 2014]]> image-id:1499 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Jake Muntz collects a sample of water from the stream to test for nutrient levels at Glenn Marshall Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 9, 2014]]> image-id:1498 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Emily Gray, Cyan Duvall and Ryan Smith read over instructions to test stream water for nutrient levels at Glenn Marshall Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 9, 2014]]> image-id:1497 <![CDATA[Paint Lick Elementary School (Garrard County) teacher Pam Canter ushers 5th-grade students into the Governor's Mansion. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2014]]> image-id:1496 <![CDATA[The Governor's Mansion is just across the street from the Capitol and both can be toured on the same day. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2014]]> image-id:1495 <![CDATA[Inside the ballroom, tour guide Art Boebinger tells the stories of the Governor's Mansion to Paint Lick Elementary School (Garrard County) 5th-grade students. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2014]]> image-id:1494 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Mary-Grace Walling photographs a grandfather clock. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2014]]> image-id:1493 <![CDATA[Governor's Mansion tour guide Art Boebinger asks Paint Lick Elementary School (Garrard County) 5th-grade student Meggie Morrow a question. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2014]]> image-id:1492 <![CDATA[Vicki Berberich, an instructional coach at Conner High School (Boone County), pages through the graphic novel The Arrival by Shaun Tan. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2014]]> image-id:1491 <![CDATA[Lafayette High School (Fayette County) teacher Christopher McCurry presents The Power of the Graphic Novel. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2014]]> image-id:1490 <![CDATA[Lafayette High School (Fayette County) teacher Holly Wooten discusses using proper terms with a graphic novel just as you would with other literary devices. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2014]]> image-id:1489 <![CDATA[First-grade student Yasseen Mohamed plays a skills game with ESL teacher Betty Snyder and and other ESL students at Glendover Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 30, 2014]]> image-id:1488 <![CDATA[Professional teaching assistant Karen Dove and reading intervention specialist Julie Miller examine the growth in reading scores for their students at Glendover Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 30, 2014]]> image-id:1487 <![CDATA[First-grade students Crystal Petotan and Isneha Tamang play a skills game with their ESL teacher Betty Snyder at Glendover Elementary School (Fayette County). Crystal speaks Spanish and Isneha speaks Nepali. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 30, 2014]]> image-id:1486 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Lauren Rister cheers on her class during field day at Glendover Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 30, 2014]]> image-id:1485 <![CDATA[CaMareius Caldwell draws his design for a model representation of an animal that can carry pollen during Debbie Lewis' 2nd-grade class. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 19, 2014]]> image-id:1484 <![CDATA[Debbie Lewis passes out tape to 2nd graders at Morningside Elementary School (Elizabethtown Independent) to use on models they designed to replicate an animal transferring pollen. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 19, 2014]]> image-id:1483 <![CDATA[Students in Debbie Lewis' 2nd-grade class work on their design plans before building their models at Morningside Elementary School (Elizabethtown Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 19, 2014]]> image-id:1482 <![CDATA[Rylee Eikenberry adds feathers to her and her partner Olivia Medley's design of an animal that would transfer pollen. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 19, 2014]]> image-id:1481 <![CDATA[Amiyah Simpson and Danielle Watts shake their animal design to see how much ]]> image-id:1480 <![CDATA[Mustfa Malik and Chase Smith work together building their design of an animal that could transfer a lot of pollen during Debbie Lewis' 2nd-grade class at Morningside Elementary School (Elizabethtown Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 19, 2014]]> image-id:1479 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Brian Recktenwald talks to his class about economics at Clear Creek Elementary School (Shelby County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 16, 2014]]> image-id:1478 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Ashley Isaac, Adrianna Malone and Janay Farris share with each other what they will not spend their money on while trying to save for something else during Brian Recktenwald's class at Clear Creek Elementary School (Shelby County). Recktenwald was teaching about economics, including spending and saving. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 16, 2014]]> image-id:1477 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Keveon Beach focuses on finding the most important information while he reads during Gigi Pattison's class at Clear Creek Elementary School (Shelby County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 16, 2014]]> image-id:1476 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Sonya Hay reviews mathematics word problems with her class at Star Elementary School (Carter County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1475 <![CDATA[Third-grade teacher Tim Kennedy teaches his class how to calculate area and perimeter at Star Elementary School (Carter County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1474 <![CDATA[Brayden Fuler is excited to share a book about "cute baby animals" with instructional assistant Francie Shaffer during Lisa Hick's 2nd-grade class at Star Elementary School (Carter County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1473 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Aden Rucker shows his bird nest observations to his teacher Lisa Hicks at Star Elementary School (Carter County). Her class was observing, through a webcam, a live bird's nest at the county's middle school. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1472 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teacher Jan Kennedy works on reading skills with Ryan Carter at Star Elementary School (Carter County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1471 <![CDATA[Ryland Fuller shares a connection he has with a book character in How to Beat the Bully Without Really Trying by Rodney Rathbone during KW Sexton's 4th-grade class at Star Elementary School (Carter County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1470 <![CDATA[Star Elementary School (Carter County) Principal Charles Baker talks with 4th-grade students Madison Sparks and Kelsie Fleming before they head to lunch. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 14, 2014]]> image-id:1469 <![CDATA[Joy Neace helps juniors Cody Jewell and Krystal Spenser create a cipher web page during her Intro to Computer Science class at Lee County High School. Jewell enjoys working in JavaScript and does extra learning through the Khan Academy. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 28, 2014]]> image-id:1468 <![CDATA[Sophomore Joe Samples creates a cipher web page during Joy Neace's Intro to Computer Science class at Lee County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 28, 2014]]> image-id:1467 <![CDATA[Senior Justin Austin videoconferences with TEALS instructor Gabe Ghearing during the computer science class. Austin plans to continue studying at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has received a computer science scholarship. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 28, 2014]]> image-id:1466 <![CDATA[Shelia Baugh, director of specialized instructional programs for Simpson County Schools, reviews junior Garrett Cothern's recent assignment grades with him during a Student Support Team meeting at Franklin-Simpson High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2014]]> image-id:1465 <![CDATA[Stephanie Cornwell, the transition facilitator at Franklin-Simpson High School (Simpson County), hands junior Savannah Pitt an Attack the Mission card for doing well in her classes. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2014]]> image-id:1464 <![CDATA[dsc_0046]]> image-id:1463 <![CDATA[csc_0111]]> image-id:1462 <![CDATA[Mann Elementary Ambassadors, including Luke Weaver, Isabel Schmitt and Emily Fox, all 5th-grade students, are raising money for a buddy bench for their playground. The bench will be a place where a student can sit, alerting other students that they are looking for someone to play with. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1461 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Lisa Willoughby discusses using the content to predict what will happen in a book that her students are reading at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1459 <![CDATA[Mann Elementary School (Boone County) Principal Connie Crigger talks with students outside on the playground. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1458 <![CDATA[Geoffrey Cottingham has lunch with the Maverick Mentors at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1456 <![CDATA[Maverick Mentor Joseph Zabik, center, reads with Ian McIntosh and Autumn Bailey at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1455 <![CDATA[Jake Lunnemann and Maverick Mentors 5th-grade students Canada Johngakiem and Celeste Hesener review colors while playing with a toy ship at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1454 <![CDATA[Brandon Wu, a 2nd-grade student at Mann Elementary School (Boone County), listens to teacher Lisa Willoughby discuss The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop. Willoughby said her students always look forward to reading the book. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014]]> image-id:1453 <![CDATA[An image of the proposed Kentucky National Guard Memorial to be located in Frankfort.]]> image-id:1452 <![CDATA[King Middle School (Mercer County) 6th-grade student Jonathan Sullivan, right, wears the shirt his classmates are selling to raise funds for the Kentucky National Guard Memorial. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2014]]> image-id:1451 <![CDATA[Jason Bryant teaches his social studies class at King Middle School (Mercer County). Bryant's students are raising funds for the Kentucky National Guard Memorial and he is tying economic and civic lessons in to project. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2014]]> image-id:1450 <![CDATA[King Middle School (Mercer County) 8th-grade student Mackenzie Ezell designed the shirt used for her school's fundraising efforts for the Kentucky National Guard Memorial. Social studies teachers Greg Warren, Connie Eades, Jason Bryant, Barry Moser and Mike Floro (and Tiffany Ison, not pictured) are helping with the project. ]]> image-id:1449 <![CDATA[Freshmen Blake Thompson, Emily Russ and Sydney Blair translate a Latin passage during Matt Behrensmeyer's Latin II class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1448 <![CDATA[Sarah Webster, a senior at Northern Kentucky University, is a teaching candidate at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1447 <![CDATA[Senior Chris O'Connor, center, checks out the cover art sophomore Mikayla Smith was creating for their journalism class’s satire blog at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1446 <![CDATA[Junior Zoe Moon stands with a collection of portraits she created using various mediums during Monica Namyar’s art class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). “Beechwood’s dedication to the arts is a source of personal pride for me,” English teacher Mike Piergalski said. “The music and band programs are consistently some of the best in Kentucky, and the visual arts program yields state awards on a routine basis.” Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 19, 2014]]> image-id:1445 <![CDATA[Junior Samantha Ruedebasch works clay on a potter’s wheel during Monica Namyar's art class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). She is considering a career in fashion or design. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 19, 2014 ]]> image-id:1444 <![CDATA[John Sudduth, a pre-engineering student, looks over a set of building plans created for a class project at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. Students in the program utilize Project Lead the Way curriculum. The pre-engineering program has also been implemented at both of the county's middle schools. Photo by Tim Thornberry, March 21, 2014]]> image-id:1432 <![CDATA[Welding student Ben Dunavent cleans the weld on a piece of metal during a recent competition held at the new facility. The Franklin County Career and Technology Center's welding lab is state-of-the-art and uses indutry-level welding equipment. Photo by Tim Thornberry, Feb. 14, 2014]]> image-id:1431 <![CDATA[The Franklin County Career and Technology Center's welding lab has been equipped with the latest in industry-level welders and equipment. Photo by Tim Thornberry, Feb. 14, 2014]]> image-id:1430 <![CDATA[Franklin County Career and Technology Center automotive technology student Greg Hulker builds a transmission. Students in the program also learn how to make bio-diesel fuel and hydro-electric cells. Photo by Tim Thornberry, March 21, 2014]]> image-id:1429 <![CDATA[Boyle County Superintendent Mike LaFavers and Assistant Superintendent David Young talked to 7th-grade students Gracyn King and Bailey Ellis. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 25, 2014]]> image-id:1428 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Valerie Santander, Branden Phillips and Joseph Ryan play the word game Blurt! during center time at Perryvillle Elementary School (Boyle County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 25, 2014]]> image-id:1427 <![CDATA[Principal Chris Slone, curriculum coach Maureen Elwyn, special education instructor Dana Padgett and 2nd-grade teachers Leslie Lee and Ruthie Young talk about summer professional development opportunities during a PLC meeting at Perryvillle Elementary School (Boyle County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 25, 2014]]> image-id:1426 <![CDATA[Pfc. Paul Banks and Staff Sgt. Barry Forrest time 8th-grade student Noah New's push-ups during an Operation Preparation college and career fair at Owen County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2014]]> image-id:1425 <![CDATA[Anthony Palm, a representative with Lincoln College of Technology Indianapolis, talks with 8th-grade students about programs available at his school including automotive and diesel technology during an Operation Preparation college and career fair at Owen County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2014]]> image-id:1424 <![CDATA[Elk Creek Vineyards general manager Shanna Osborne talks with 8th-grade students about the agricultural skills needed to worki at a vineyard during an Operation Preparation college and career fair at Owen County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2014]]> image-id:1423 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Lakeita Parmes asks preschool student Kenzyn Turner what center he would like to visit next at North Park Elementary School (Hardin County). Students are allowed to choose their next location during center time. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 27 2014]]> image-id:1422 <![CDATA[Jackson Shea and Sanyu Fennelly play in the kitchen during Emily Wilcoxson's preschool class at North Park Elementary School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 27 2014]]> image-id:1421 <![CDATA[Preschool students take a trip down a slide at North Park Elementary School (Hardin County). Students at the school receive a minimum of 30 minutes gross motor time. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 27 2014]]> image-id:1420 <![CDATA[Preschool students in Lori Allen's class race in Tiger Time at North Park Elementary School (Hardin County). Tiger Time is a room dedicated to gross motor skills at the school. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 27 2014]]> image-id:1419 <![CDATA[Preschool student Clarence Brodie, right, dances to Tooty Ta during a Classroom of Excellence celebration at North Park Elementary School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 27 2014]]> image-id:1418 <![CDATA[Art teacher Bethany Inman irons together students' quilt square patterns during her class at Heartland Elementary School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 24, 2013]]> image-id:1417 <![CDATA[Teaching artist Diane Simpson and art teacher Bethany Inman assist students making quilt squares at Heartland Elementary School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 24, 2013]]> image-id:1416 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Phillip Preston cuts out a fabric triangle for his quilt square during Bethany Inman's art class at Heartland Elementary School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 24, 2013]]> image-id:1415 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Devontaye Yates paints on half of the wooden quilt square that will become an 8x8 feet piece during Bethany Inman's art class at Heartland Elementary School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 24, 2013]]> image-id:1414 <![CDATA[Patrick Swencki, left, helps 5th-grade students from Crossroads Elementary School and Old Mill Elementary School (Bullitt County) participating in a week long Gifted and Talented Camp on economics at Mt. Washington Middle School. Photo by John Roberts/Bullitt County Public Schools]]> image-id:1413 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade gifted and talented students from Mt. Washington Elementary School and Pleasant Grove Elementary School (Bullitt County) work at Eastside Middle School during a fall camp on genetics. Photo by John Roberts/Bullitt County Public Schools]]> image-id:1412 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students work on genetics during a week-long camp at Eastside Middle School (Bullitt County). Photo by John Roberts/Bullitt County Public Schools]]> image-id:1411 <![CDATA[Melissa Key works with a 5th-grade student during the Gifted and Talented Camp on economics at Mt. Washington Middle School (Bullitt County). Photo by John Roberts/Bullitt County Public Schools]]> image-id:1410 <![CDATA[First-grade student Rylee Whalen points to her favorite habit, Sharpen The Saw, which refers to eating right, exercising, getting plenty of sleep and spending time with family and friends. It was a popular choice with her classmates. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1399 <![CDATA[Matthew Johnson and Taylor Corum read together in Katy Paas' 1st grade class at Campbellsburg Elementary School (Henry County). Behind them is a poster the class created that asks, ]]> image-id:1398 <![CDATA[Haliegh Phillips helps Hampton Crowe on the computer during Katy Paas' first-grade class at Campbellsburg Elementary School (Henry County). Paas incorporates The 7 Habits of Happy Kids into her daily routine. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1397 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher CarmaRita Webb incorporates the Leader in Me program into her class and lessons at Campbellsburg Elementary School (Henry County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1396 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher CarmaRita Webb incorporates habit 5, Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood into her lesson. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1395 <![CDATA[Freshman Jeremy McIntyre and junior Kerry Brewer ask each other questions about age during Pam Pennington's German 1A class at Scott High School (Kenton County). At right is sophomore Dylan Mahan. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 25, 2013]]> image-id:1394 <![CDATA[Freshmen Michaela Patrick and Chandler Yeary review information on age and numbers during Pam Pennington's German 1A class at Scott High School (Kenton County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 25, 2013]]> image-id:1393 <![CDATA[Pam Pennington was named the 2013 Outstanding Teacher from the Kentucky World Language Association. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 25, 2013]]> image-id:1392 <![CDATA[Junior Michaela Carter, center, tries coding on her smart phone during a visit by Awesome Inc U at Tates Creek High School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 9, 2013]]> image-id:1391 <![CDATA[Junior Kaylea Caton shows off her coding on her smart phone to members of Awesome Inc U during the Hour of Code event. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 9, 2013]]> image-id:1390 <![CDATA[Awesome Inc U co-founder Brian Raney helps Tates Creek seniors Katie Workman and Thomas Doering code on their smart phones. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 9, 2013]]> image-id:1389 <![CDATA[Sophomore Sydney Scruggs tries coding on her smart phone at Tates Creek High School (Fayette County) during the Hour of Code event.Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 9, 2013]]> image-id:1388 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Noah Sturgill reads in the library at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2013]]> image-id:1387 <![CDATA[Angus Moore, center, helps Nathan Franklin, left, graph equations during Sarah Jennings 8th-grade mathematics class at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2013]]> image-id:1386 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Teanna Gray listens to counselor Rhonda Powell while planning what class to take once she enters high school at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2013]]> image-id:1385 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade mathematics teacher Sarah Jennings helps Alex Fitzpatrick graph equations at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County). Fitzpatrick is interested in a career in engineering. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2013]]> image-id:1384 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade students Kelby Epley, Jacob Page and Sean Simpson present the animal they created during Robert Belwood's science class at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County). ]]> image-id:1383 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Chelsea Scott asks her students their favorite things about Halloween in preparation for an opinion writing assignment at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2013]]> image-id:1382 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Cady Johnson visited classrooms to take make-up pictures of students for the yearbook at Auburn Elementary School (Logan County) Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2013]]> image-id:1381 <![CDATA[After watching clips from the show Punkin Chunkin Joanna Howerton Stevens uses pumpkin throwing as a real-world example of quadratics during her Algebra II class at Lincoln County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1380 <![CDATA[Junior Kaitlin Owens listens as Joanna Howerton Stevens gives real-world examples of applying quadratic equations during her Algebra II class at Lincoln County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1379 <![CDATA[Joanna Howerton Stevens talks about real-world applications of the quadratic equation during her Algebra II class at Lincoln County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1378 <![CDATA[Jermane Shegog answers a warm-up question at the beginning of Melanie Trowel's 7th-grade science class at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1377 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Fre'Derick Jewett demonstrates his group's mouse trap car during Melanie Trowel's science class at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1376 <![CDATA[Melanie Trowel answers a question for 7th-grade student Kennedy King during her science class at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1375 <![CDATA[Melanie Trowel helps 7th-grade student Dorian Cleveland during class at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1374 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Jermane Shegg asks science teacher Melanie Trowel a question about his assignment on daylight and sun angle during class at Carter G. Woodson Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1373 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Meg Robinson and Deric Barnette use plastic fingers to follow along while reading informational text about bats during Kentucky Teacher of the Year Holly Bloodworth's class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 28, 2013]]> image-id:1372 <![CDATA[Kentucky Teacher of the Year Holly Bloodworth helps 3rd-grade student Sydney Custer with an assignment during her class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 28, 2013]]> image-id:1371 <![CDATA[Kentucky Teacher of the Year Holly Bloodworth holds Hedgie, the class pet hedgehog, during class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 28, 2013]]> image-id:1370 <![CDATA[Kentucky Teacher of the Year Holly Bloodworth has lunch with her class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 28, 2013]]> image-id:1369 <![CDATA[School-based decision making council member Sherry Whitman-Powers interviews Mike Muss for a position of commercial producer for the East Hardin Middle School (Hardin County) weekly newscast.Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1367 <![CDATA[John Wright, public relations director for Hardin County Schools, interviews 8th-grade student Derek Grant for a position with the weekly newscast at East Hardin Middle School (Hardin County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1366 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Jennifer Jaco interviews for a position on the weekly newscast with school counselor Amanda Drane at East Hardin Middle School (Hardin County). Jaco explained how her involvement with school clubs demonstrates her responsibility and willingness to work hard.Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1365 <![CDATA[Brooke Whitlow helps Ryan Bell finalize his resume during her technology education class at East Hardin Middle School (Hardin County). Students were preparing to interview for a position with the school's weekly newscast. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1364 <![CDATA[Technology education teacher Brooke Whitlow helps 8th-grade student Lauryn Ringle draft her resume before interviewing for a position for the school's weekly newscast at East Hardin Middle School (Hardin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1363 <![CDATA[Sophomores Kelston Ingles, Morgan Justice and Katelyn Collins play a memory game where they match a word part to its meaning during Courtney Martin's critical thinking class at East Carter High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1362 <![CDATA[Sophomore Lashonda Stone plays a memory game where students match a word part to its meaning during Courtney Martin's critical thinking class at East Carter High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1361 <![CDATA[Sophomores Kelston Ingles, John Cronin, William Spillman, Cameron Pennington and Rob Whitte discuss the novel Crank by Ellen Hopkins during Courtney Martin's critical thinking class at East Carter High School. The students were learning about community problems including addiction. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1360 <![CDATA[School counselor Sheila Porter reviews colleges with senior Caleb Wilburn in her office at East Carter High School. During college application week at the school all seniors must apply to at least one college. Wilburn is considering studying pastoral ministries at Campbellsville University. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1359 <![CDATA[Simone Parker helps seniors Caleb McIntosh and Seth McNichols during her AP Chemistry class at Trigg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1358 <![CDATA[Seniors Carly Dothsuk and Dalton Barnes prepare a solution during Simone Parker's AP Chemistry class at Trigg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1357 <![CDATA[Sophomore Josie Carr and junior Nick Gilliland work together solving equations during Simone Parker's Pre-AP Chemistry class at Trigg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1356 <![CDATA[Juniors Shannon Mack and Hannah Futrell work on equations as they prepare for an upcoming lab in Simone Parker's Pre-AP Chemistry class at Trigg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1355 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade student Ariana Collins said she likes that J.M. Stumbo Elementary School (Floyd County) has been the district attendance champs for the past six years and does her best to make it to school every day. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 10, 2013]]> image-id:1354 <![CDATA[Social studies teacher Randy Coleman talks with 8th-grade student John Smith about the colonial group Daughters of Liberty during class at at J.M. Stumbo Elementary School (Floyd County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 10, 2013]]> image-id:1353 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade reading teacher Lori Newome helps a student use context clues to determine the meaning of a word at J.M. Stumbo Elementary School (Floyd County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 10, 2013]]> image-id:1352 <![CDATA[A data board in Lori Newsome's 5th-grade class lets students know how well anonymously they are doing at J.M. Stumbo Elementary School (Floyd County). According to Principal Donna Robinson the students have become very driven to move into the proficient and distinguished categories. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 10, 2013]]> image-id:1351 <![CDATA[Students check to see how well their programming worked for KATE at Bullitt Lick Middle School (Bullitt County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 2, 2013]]> image-id:1350 <![CDATA[Robotics teacher Shaun McIntosh helps Seira Depoyster and Brianna Stasel program the robot KATE at Bullitt Lick Middle School (Bullitt County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 2, 2013]]> image-id:1349 <![CDATA[Dylan Smith and Johnathon Peck create a program for KATE at Bullitt Lick Middle School (Bullitt County). They had previously worked on programming KATE to do the Harlem Shake. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 2, 2013]]> image-id:1348 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Bob Belcher and robotics teacher Shaun McIntosh watch Kentucky’s Automated Technology Educator (KATE) dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller at Bullitt Lick Middle School (Bullitt County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 2, 2013]]> image-id:1347 <![CDATA[Robotics teacher Shaun McIntosh helps 7th-grade student Seira Depoyster create a program for KATE at Bullitt Lick Middle School (Bullitt County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 2, 2013]]> image-id:1346 <![CDATA[Sebastain Saylor and Gabbie Stinson watch Kentucky’s Automated Technology Educator (KATE) perform a routine about the water cycle. The Bullitt Lick Middle School students programmed KATE in preparation for an elementary school presentation. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 2, 2013]]> image-id:1345 <![CDATA[After listening to a podcast during a walking classroom session, Jessica Goldy Elliott asked her 5th-grade class questions about the lesson at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). ]]> image-id:1344 <![CDATA[A student prepares to go on a walk while listening to an educational podcast during Jessica Goldy Elliott's 5th-grade class at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1343 <![CDATA[Jessica Goldy Elliott's 5th-grade class leaves for a walk while listening to a podcast at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1342 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Ryan Conley listens to a podcast about about Christopher Columbus during a walking classroom session at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1341 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Joseph Hagerman listens to his teacher Jessica Goldy Elliott elaborate on a lesson after a walking classroom session at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1339 <![CDATA[Freshman Darion Robinson works on a project in Taylor Sullivan's class at the STEAM Academy (Fayette County). Robinson said she was excited to learn about earning college credit while attending classes at the STEAM Academy. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1328 <![CDATA[Freshmen Zoe Horn and Nakayla Greene share a picture they took while working on an activity about perspective during Traci Murrell's global studies class at the STEAM Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1327 <![CDATA[Global studies teacher Traci Murrell explains an activity about perspective to her class at the STEAM Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1326 <![CDATA[Design and production teacher Gary DeBorde talks with students during class at the STEAM Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1325 <![CDATA[Director Tina Stevenson greets STEAM Academy (Fayette County) students as they arrive at school in the morning. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1324 <![CDATA[Freshmen Jordan Munhollon, Seth Stafford, Bryce Busell and Taye Benton Jones talk before classes start at the STEAM Academy (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1323 <![CDATA[After looking at a bacteria sample under the microscope, 8th-grade student LaRaven Ballard draws the bacteria at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1322 <![CDATA[Arielle Martin raises her hand to answer a question about bacteria during Alicia Thomas' class at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1321 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Jimmy Cluxton, center, and his classmates try to solve a code by Principal Shannon Gullett, back left, during Willow Hambrick's lesson on syntax and jargon at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1320 <![CDATA[Willow Hambrick talks to her 8th-grade class about the use of syntax at Royal Spring Middle School (Scott County). Hambrick was named the 2009 Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1319 <![CDATA[Amelia Turner crumples up a piece of paper that she used to write about a time she felt like a failure and throws it away during Jane Thompson's 4th-grade at Emma B. Ward Elementary School (Anderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1318 <![CDATA[Breanna Blackburn crumples up a piece of paper she used to write about a time she felt like a loser and throws it away during Jane Thompson's 4th-grade at Emma B. Ward Elementary School (Anderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1317 <![CDATA[Zachary Giles writes about a time he was successful during Jane Thompson's 4th-grade class at Emma B. Ward Elementary School (Anderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1316 <![CDATA[Jane Thompson discusses with her 4th-grade class a time when they felt like failures and who helped them during a lesson about mindset and failure at Emma B. Ward Elementary School (Anderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1315 <![CDATA[Ariana Dearringer and Kadi Garrett discuss a time when they were successful during Jane Thompson's 4th-grade class at Emma B. Ward Elementary School (Anderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 12, 2013]]> image-id:1314 <![CDATA[Pulaski County High School Principal Mike Murphy talks with Assistant Principals Arthur Crawford and Rodney McAninch about an upcoming staff meeting. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 4, 2013]]> image-id:1313 <![CDATA[Chelsea Smith solves a mathematics problem during MAP testing at Pulaski County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 4, 2013]]> image-id:1312 <![CDATA[Math intervention teacher Scotty Grubbs talks with his students about meeting benchmarks at Pulaski County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 4, 2013]]> image-id:1311 <![CDATA[Freshman Nick Owens and Derek Phillips study ancient Chinese dynasties during Aubrey Pennington world civilizations class at Pulaski County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 4, 2013]]> image-id:1310 <![CDATA[Freshman Andrea Rookard and Asia Rowe complete sketches before doing computer work during Mike Crowhurst's Introduction to Engineering Design class at Pulaski County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 4, 2013]]> image-id:1308 <![CDATA[Mahmood Najd, Jodee Powell and Claire Artman watch as their classmates dress in costumes representing careers while learning about goods and services in Christina Cornelius' class at James E. Farmer Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1307 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Paul Brown was dressed as a firefighter as students in Christina Cornelius’ class learned about public and private careers at James E. Farmer Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1306 <![CDATA[Emma Hague, center, eagerly raises her hand to be dressed in a career costume while learning about goods and services in Christina Cornelius' 5th-grade class at James E. Farmer Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1305 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Nicolas Franchi gets dressed as a fisherman during an activity in Christina Cornelius class that ended with the whole class dressed as a profession at James E. Farmer Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1304 <![CDATA[Christina Cornelius helps 5th-grade student Nicolas Franchi dress as a fisherman during an activity about goods and services. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1303 <![CDATA[Students in Christina Cornelius' class had to decide if Javon Walker, dressed as a farmer, created goods or services during an activity learning about producers and consumers at James E. Farmer Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 27, 2013]]> image-id:1302 <![CDATA[Lexi Allen, right, tells her new kindergarten teacher Linda Bruner that her name was spelled wrong on her name tag after taking the kindergarten readiness screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1301 <![CDATA[Trevor Exline takes the kindergarden readiness screener for paraprofessional Lakeia Doss at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent) kindergarten screening. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1300 <![CDATA[Lexi Allen answers questions about where she lives as part of the kindergarten readiness screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1299 <![CDATA[Caleb Leach stands on one foot with his eyes closed for paraprofessional Cathy Reynolds as a demonstration of his gross motor skills for the kindergarten screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1298 <![CDATA[Destini Loweny draws shapes for paraprofessional Lori Dick while taking the kindergarten screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1297 <![CDATA[Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent) senior Bo Rust work on his Common App during College Application Bootcamp. He plans on entering the medical field, studying dermatology or pediatrics. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1296 <![CDATA[Students work on their Common App during College Application Bootcamp at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1295 <![CDATA[Senior Emily Pawsat developed her Common App essay topic with the help of counselor Chris Reeves during College Application Bootcamp at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). She was writing about how an international trip expanded her view of cultural learning. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1294 <![CDATA[Counselor Chris Reeves talks with senior Robby Rundle about his essay for the Common App during College Application Bootcamp at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Rundle plans on studying criminal Justice. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1293 <![CDATA[School counselor Chris Reeves talks with senior about about filling out the college Common App during College Application Bootcamp at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 6, 2013]]> image-id:1292 <![CDATA[130821west8214]]> image-id:1291 <![CDATA[130821west8162]]> image-id:1290 <![CDATA[130814meade7586]]> image-id:1289 <![CDATA[130814meade7490]]> image-id:1288 <![CDATA[applelogo]]> image-id:1287 <![CDATA[androidlogo]]> image-id:1286 <![CDATA[Lexi Allen, right, tells her new kindergarten teacher Linda Bruner that her name was spelled wrong on her name tag after taking the kindergarten readiness screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1284 <![CDATA[Trevor Exline takes the kindergarden readiness screener for paraprofessional Lakeia Doss at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent) kindergarten screening. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1282 <![CDATA[Lexi Allen answers questions about where she lives as part of the kindergarten readiness screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1281 <![CDATA[Caleb Leach stands on one foot with his eyes closed for paraprofessional Cathy Reynolds as a demonstration of his gross motor skills for the kindergarten screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1280 <![CDATA[Destini Loweny draws shapes for paraprofessional Lori Dick while taking the kindergarten screener at Science Hill Elementary School (Science Hill Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, July 30, 2013]]> image-id:1279 <![CDATA[Seniors Zach Hogan, Zack Duff, Branden Elliott and sophomore Cade Allshouse work on the demonstration wind turbine they use for presentations at Grant County Career and Technology Center. In the distance behind them is an 80 foot wind turbine. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 16, 2013]]> image-id:1278 <![CDATA[Electrical technology teacher Brad Schadler, and seniors Branden Elliott, Zack Duff, Chris Back and Zach Hogan use solar power to power light bulbs at the Grant County Career and Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 16, 2013]]> image-id:1277 <![CDATA[Electrical technology teacher Brad Schadler and seniors Branden Elliott and Zach Hogan work on solar panels at the Grant County Career and Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 16, 2013]]> image-id:1276 <![CDATA[Marlena White, instructional coach at Ninth District Elementary School (Covington Independent), follows along with an activity with the book Bunny Money that teaches about scarcity during the Teaching Economics through Children’s Literature Workshop. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 26, 2013]]> image-id:1275 <![CDATA[Erin A. Yetter, an economic education specialist for the Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, presents an activity demonstrating opportunity cost during the Teaching Economics through Children’s Literature Workshop. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 26, 2013]]> image-id:1274 <![CDATA[Brandeis Elementary School (Jefferson County) primary teachers Regina Puryear and Etta Ray listen to a story highlighting scarcity during the Teaching Economics through Children’s Literature Workshop. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 26, 2013]]> image-id:1273 <![CDATA[Lakewood Elementary School (Hardin County) 5th-grade teacher Alice Wittenback discusses teaching strategies during the Teaching Economics through Children’s Literature Workshop. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 26, 2013]]> image-id:1272 <![CDATA[Crawford Middle School (Fayette County) teacher Casey Bayne, second from right, talks with Trinity High School (Jefferson County private) junior Ben Baughman, Hopkinsville High School (Christian County) junior Peyton Hughes, sophomore David Pyle and junior Read Hughes about the results of the product they created during the Governor's School for Entrepreneurs at Georgetown College. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1271 <![CDATA[DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County) senior Brigid Neary reviews her product presentation with GSA staff member and education consultant Tom Welch. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1270 <![CDATA[Model Laboratory High School (Madison County) sophomore Vivian Nguyen, right, talks with Trinity High School (Jefferson County private) senior Sebastian Lora during GSE. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1269 <![CDATA[Cumberland County High School sophomore Brooklyn Wright prepares for a presentation of her group's product during GSE. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1268 <![CDATA[Cumberland County High School sophomore Molly Morgan adds a new idea about her team's project to its business model board during the Governor's School for Entrepreneurs at Georgetown College. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1267 <![CDATA[DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County) junior Lilia Conklin creates a website for her group's project during the Governor's School for Entrepreneurs at Georgetown College. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1266 <![CDATA[Louisville attorney Chip Hamm discusses intellectual property law with students during GSE. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1265 <![CDATA[Dennis Millay, Marge Maxwell, Kathy Howells and Matthew Oates map out an area of Lost River Cave using GPS during the Kentucky Geographic Alliance Summer GIS Institute. They are teachers at East View Elementary School (Daviess County), Western Kentucky University, Jessie Clark Middle School (Fayette County) and Muhlenberg County High School respectively. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 18, 2013]]> image-id:1264 <![CDATA[Frankfort High School geography teacher Shane Hecker compares his coordinates from a GPS unit to the ones from the Map My Run app during the Kentucky Geographic Alliance Summer GIS Institute. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 18, 2013]]> image-id:1263 <![CDATA[Trigg County High School chemistry and physics teacher Charles Lee compares his readings from a GPS unit to the Map My Run app on his smartphone during the Kentucky Geographic Alliance Summer GIS Institute. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 18, 2013]]> image-id:1262 <![CDATA[Teachers use GPS to mark the boundary of the wetlands at Lost River Cave during the Kentucky Geographic Alliance Summer GIS Institute. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 18, 2013]]> image-id:1261 <![CDATA[Frankfort High School (Frankfort Independent) teacher Shane Hecker and Hopkinsville High School (Christian County) teacher Joe Parrino use GPS to mark the boundary of the wetlands at Lost River Cave during the Kentucky Geographic Alliance Summer GIS Institute.Photo by Amy Wallot, June 18, 2013]]> image-id:1260 <![CDATA[Bowling Middle School (Owen County) history teacher Scott Johnson, left, talks with Michelle Brower, a school support specialist from Jefferson Parish Public Schools in Louisiana, during the Let's TALK conference. Brower made the trip to learn about the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and Kentucky’s Professional Growth and Effectiveness System (PGES). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1259 <![CDATA[Westport Middle School (Jefferson County) language arts teacher Raymond Yasik discusses effective ways to promote student growth during a session at the Let's TALK conference in Louisville. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1258 <![CDATA[Tracy Kurzendoerfer presents during the breakout session Talking LDC in Social Studies during the Let's TALK conference on Louisville. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1257 <![CDATA[Cowan Elementary School (Letcher County) teachers Paige Adams and Evelyn Lumpkins talk with presenter Holly Linville, a teacher at Deming School (Robertson County) about how they are doing formative assessment at their school during the Let's TALK conference in Louisville. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 20, 2013]]> image-id:1256 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Blind Charitable Foundation Executive Director Rick Ricks talks to students in the INSIGHT program about scholorships the foundation has available. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1255 <![CDATA[Nick Fleet, Ali Ratcliff and Alisha Kempher hang out before their next class during the INSIGHT program at Morehead State University. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1254 <![CDATA[Alisha Kempher, Nick Fleet, Ali Ratcliff, Olivia Slade and Imani Lankheit hang out after class during the INSIGHT program at Morehead State University. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1253 <![CDATA[Junior Imani Lankheit, senior Alisha Kempher and senior Beckie Decker walk to their next activity at Morehead State University during the IINSIGHT program. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1252 <![CDATA[Students in the INSIGHT program at Morehead State University study a raised-relief map. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1251 <![CDATA[Madison Central High School (Madison County) junior Shamyak Acharya measures the depth of his model during a demonstration of plate tectonics during the INSIGHT program at Morehead State University. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1250 <![CDATA[Imani Lankheit, Kaley Outlaw, Precious Youngblood and Olivia Slade build models to demonstrate plate tectonics during the INSIGHT program at Morehead State University. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 13, 2013]]> image-id:1249 <![CDATA[Dylan Arnold and James Austin talk before the graduation ceremony at Taylor County High School. Arnold plans to attend the University of Louisville and Austin plans to enter the workforce. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 22, 2013]]> image-id:1219 <![CDATA[Jill Hale walks the halls of Taylor County High School before graduation. She plans on attending Lindsey Wilson College to study nursing. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 22, 2013]]> image-id:1218 <![CDATA[Taylor County High School graduate Jason Reynolds made a birdhouse with a cardinal, the school mascot, that spun around it for his mortar board. Reynolds plans to study engineering at the University of Kentucky. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 22, 2013]]> image-id:1215 <![CDATA[Brooke Gragory decorated her mortar board for Taylor County High School’s graduation. She plans on attending Eastern Kentucky University as a pre-med major in the fall. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 22, 2013]]> image-id:1214 <![CDATA[Hannah Feather, Erin Cox and Samantha Floyd wait for graduation to begin at Taylor County High School. All three of them have college plans, including St. Catharine College and Campbellsville University. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 22, 2013]]> image-id:1213 <![CDATA[Clayton McCarty, Skylar Copher and Summer Hamm use iPods in the hallway during Shannon Hill’s 4th-grade technology class at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1212 <![CDATA[Shannon Hill helps Elijah Stringer during her 4th-grade technology class at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1210 <![CDATA[Haley Withrow, right, helps Billy Hardin log on to a website during Shannon Hill's 4th-grade class at Owingsville Elementary School (Bath County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1207 <![CDATA[Students at Metcalfe County High School can visit the library in the morning for a cup of coffee while they visit with their friends and pick up a book or magazine. According to library media specialist Anita Love, the coffee shop idea came as the school was looking for ways to increase foot traffic to the library. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1204 <![CDATA[Art instructor Chris Long talks with Cheyanna Trumbo, Hayley Bragg, Haley Hunt and Brittany Scott at Metcalfe County High School. Long encourages his students to enter their work in as many contests as they can for recognition and scholarship money. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1203 <![CDATA[A billboard near the lunchroom at Metcalfe County High School displays photos of the senior class and student’s post-graduation plans. Principal Kelly Bell said they got the idea from Monroe County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1202 <![CDATA[Sophomore Kelly Moss shows a draft of her argumentative research paper to first-year teacher Kayla Koeber in her Advanced Placement English II class at Metcalfe County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1201 <![CDATA[Metcalfe County High School Principal Kelly Bell talks with students in the library. “We’re trying to make reading a wonderful, life-long pleasure for them (students),” she said. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 17, 2013]]> image-id:1200 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Kellie Stull uses an iPad in her class with students Garrett Bradley and Destiny Blair at William H. Natcher Elementary School (Cloverport Independent). Stull said the classroom technology is helpful for research and for using programs like Edmodo. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 10, 2013]]> image-id:1199 <![CDATA[Reagan Henderson uses an iPad in Kellie Stull's 5th-grade class at William H. Natcher Elementary School (Cloverport Independent). Stull said she finds the technology most useful for teaching mathematics and social studies. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 10, 2013]]> image-id:1198 <![CDATA[Grayson Townsend uses an iPad mini in Dianne Tindle’s 4th-grade class at William H. Natcher Elementary School (Cloverport Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 10, 2013]]> image-id:1197 <![CDATA[Alicia Emmick helps sophomore Austin Thompson use the Quizlet app in her human and cultural geography class while they prepare for final exams at Frederick Fraize High School (Cloverport Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 10, 2013]]> image-id:1196 <![CDATA[Freshman BriLynn Henderson creates a Quizlet on an iPad during her human and cultural geography class at Frederick Fraize High School (Cloverport Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 10, 2013]]> image-id:1195 <![CDATA[Belinda Brock teaches her 5th-grade class division at Bell Central School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2013]]> image-id:1194 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Gavin Leach reviews vocabulary during Brooke Schultz's class at Bell Central School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2013]]> image-id:1193 <![CDATA[Lisa Johnson dismisses students with a game after her reading class at Bell Central School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2013]]> image-id:1192 <![CDATA[First-grade student Kamryn Burnett listens to her teacher Lisa Johnson at Bell Central School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2013]]> image-id:1191 <![CDATA[Susan Brock talks with her 4th-grade science class about the paludarium they built with pill bugs, snails and guppies at Bell Central School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2013]]> image-id:1190 <![CDATA[Assistant Principal Jennifer Wilder, counselor Kara LeFevers and AmeriCorps worker Amelie Miracle work in a conference room surrounded by color-coded student progress information at Bell Central School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2013]]> image-id:1189 <![CDATA[First-grade student Madison Murphy solves a mathematics problem during small group work with mathematics intervention teacher Rick Reinle at Taylorsville Elementary School (Spencer County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2013]]> image-id:1175 <![CDATA[First-grade students Stevie Waldridge, Kurtis Moore and Madison Chesser work together to solve a mathematics problem at Taylorsville Elementary School (Spencer County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2013]]> image-id:1173 <![CDATA[Mathematics intervention teacher Rick Reinle high-fives 1st-grade student Jasmine Morales after she answered a question about place value at Taylorsville Elementary School (Spencer County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2013]]> image-id:1172 <![CDATA[Mathematics intervention teacher Rick Reinle reinforces mathematics strategies with 1st-grade students at Taylorsville Elementary School (Spencer County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2013]]> image-id:1171 <![CDATA[Mathematics intervention teacher Rick Reinle and kindergarten teacher Kay Pence discuss student placement for next year at Taylorsville Elementary School (Spencer County). Pence said they work really closely together, reinforcing what strategies each is using when working with students. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 6, 2013]]> image-id:1170 <![CDATA[Murray State University student teacher Amanda Pickler helps 8th-grade students Kenneth Jackson and Trevor Turner with an activity using angles during Heather Scott's class at Calloway County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2013]]> image-id:1169 <![CDATA[Murray State University student teacher Zack Traylor helps 8th-grade student Karlee Doran chart points on a plane during Valerie Waller's class at Calloway County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2013]]> image-id:1167 <![CDATA[Calloway County Middle School has a large collection of college paraphernalia from around the country to share with students. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2013]]> image-id:1166 <![CDATA[Calloway County Middle School early edge teacher Carl Creason talks with 8th-grade students Adriana Lugo, Hannah Boren, Jasmin Vandyke and Caryonna Powell about college and career plans. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2013]]> image-id:1165 <![CDATA[Language arts teacher Christi Lefevers has a literary discussion with sophomores Kaite Mason, Taelor Lawson and Adam Jones at Bell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 18 , 2013]]> image-id:1164 <![CDATA[Bell County High School teacher Christie Willis discusses The Crucible with her 11th-grade language arts class. She was giving them Advance Placement level work toward the end of the year. ]]> image-id:1163 <![CDATA[James Blevins discusses historical fiction with his 7th-grade language arts class at Page School Center (Bell County) and Bell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 18 , 2013]]> image-id:1162 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Tareza Chiasson asks Amie Weckenbrock a question about planets during her science class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 16, 2013]]> image-id:1161 <![CDATA[Mackenzie Quirk and Tatum Watkins create a model of the solar system during Amie Weckenbrock’s 7th-grade science class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). “I love how interactive teaching science is,” Weckenbrock said. “Students get to do many hands on activities and investigate things on their own rather than simply being told how things work.” Photo by Amy Wallot, April 16, 2013]]> image-id:1160 <![CDATA[Lauren Mikula and Logan Carberry work together drawing their guess on the order, number and size of the planets during a pre-assessment activity before an astronomy unit during Amie Weckenbrock’s 7th-grade science class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 16, 2013]]> image-id:1157 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Reagan Alley answers a question about what is in our galaxy during Amie Weckenbrock’s 7th-grade science class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 16, 2013]]> image-id:1156 <![CDATA[Amie Weckenbrock asked her 7th-grade science class what it knows about our galaxy at the beginning of an astronomy unit at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 16, 2013]]> image-id:1155 <![CDATA[First-grade students Breanna Johnson and Justin LeClair review words with vowel-constanant-vowel sounds with Amy Keadle during her class at Tilden Hogge Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 8, 2013]]> image-id:1154 <![CDATA[First-grade student Marley Doyle looks through a collection of student published books created by her classmates during Amy Keadle's class at Tilden Hogge Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 8, 2013]]> image-id:1152 <![CDATA[Cooper Tuerk and Tanner Spencer create a book about monster trucks during Amy Keadle's 1st-grade class at Tilden Hogge Elementary School (Rowan County). Students write and illustrate stories, which are then made into books that are laminated. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 8, 2013]]> image-id:1151 <![CDATA[First-grade students Madelyn Staton, Marley Doyle and Sallie Robbins read during Amy Keadle's 1st-grade class at Tilden Hogge Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 8, 2013]]> image-id:1150 <![CDATA[Amy Keadle listens to 1st-grade student Cooper Tuerk read during her class at Tilden Hogge Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 8, 2013]]> image-id:1149 <![CDATA[Jeff Arnett instructs Montgomery County High School sophomore Rylee Stafford on how to give a calf a shot. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1146 <![CDATA[Montgomery County High School senior Nolan Walters, junior Shane Fauzey and senior George Hamilton stand back as cattle pass at the Chenault Agriculture Center.Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1138 <![CDATA[Montgomery County High School junior Shane Fauzey, senior Nolan Walters, junior Wesley Davis, junior Tyler Woolums and senior Billy Harvey herd cattle to the barn at the Chenault Agriculture Center.Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1137 <![CDATA[Students in Amy Madsen's African American history class sponsored a food drive at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County). Pictured are Maranda Dawson, Heidi Bradley, Lazaro Wilkerson and Brittany Ford. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1136 <![CDATA[William Somersall and Darian Farris give a short presentation about historically black colleges during Amy Madsen's African American history class at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1135 <![CDATA[Amy Madsen talks with seniors Brittany Ford, Heidi Bradley, Maranda Dawson and Amber Kidd about W.E.B. Du Bois during her African American history class at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1134 <![CDATA[Seniors Darian Skinner and Sylan Mayes research share cropping during Amy Madsen's African American history class at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1133 <![CDATA[Amy Madsen teaches African American history class at George Rogers Clark High School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11 , 2013]]> image-id:1132 <![CDATA[Veterinarian David Cleveland talks with sophomore Brittany Sauer about careers in animal science during Operation Preparation at Boyle County High School. Also pictured at right are veterinarian technician Chelsea Williams and Cleveland's dog Annie. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 21, 2013]]> image-id:1116 <![CDATA[Pediatrician Kelli Whitt talks with a group of sophomores about careers in the medical field during Operation Preparation at Boyle County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, March 21, 2013]]> image-id:1112 <![CDATA[Dan Baker, an electrical controls technician for Spectra Energy, talks with Caleb Mills about career options during Operation Preparation at Boyle County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 21, 2013]]> image-id:1111 <![CDATA[Sophomore Jerred Perry discusses engineering with John Stigall aduring Operation Preparation at Boyle County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 21, 2013]]> image-id:1110 <![CDATA[Beef cattle farmer Jennifer Newby talks with sophomore Kim Simonsen about careers in agriculture during Operation Preparation at Boyle County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 21, 2013]]> image-id:1109 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Danielle Rodriguez teaches her students to subtract multiples of ten at Gallatin County Lower Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1108 <![CDATA[Anadya Perkins reads a book about England during Laura Hartke's 2nd-grade class at Gallatin County Lower Elementary School. Students were preparing to start projects on different countries.Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1107 <![CDATA[First-grade teacher Melissa Wash makes her classroom welcoming to students by displaying their family photos. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1106 <![CDATA[First-grade teacher Tonia Smith teaches conjuctions at Gallatin County Lower Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1105 <![CDATA[First-grade teacher Amanda New reviews high frequency words with Miguel Rodriguez at Gallatin County Lower Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1104 <![CDATA[Hailey Mullins works on subtraction problems during Amanda New's class at Gallatin County Lower Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1103 <![CDATA[Students walk past a classroom decorated with projects related to Louisiana at Gallatin County Lower Elementary School. Each class recently focused its studies on a particiular state. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 11, 2013]]> image-id:1102 <![CDATA[McLean County High School JROTC cadets practice for an upcoming marching competition. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1101 <![CDATA[Sophomore Cameron Kinman inspects JROTC cadets' uniforms at McLean County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1100 <![CDATA[JROTC cadets line up for uniform inspection at McLean County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1099 <![CDATA[Freshmen Landon Kimmel, David Waterbury and Isaiah Vandiver prepare for a uniform inspection at McLean County High School. Cadets in the JROTC program undergo a uniform inspection once a week. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1098 <![CDATA[Junior Cody Ramburger prepares for a uniform inspection at McLean County High School. Ramburger, a JROTC cadet, has enlisted in the army. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1097 <![CDATA[Senior Zac Adams takes notes during a leadership meeting of the McLean County High School JROTC. Adams plans to enlist in the Navy after graduation. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1096 <![CDATA[The Army JROTC uniform will change next year from a light green shirt with dark green jacket and pants to a grey shirt with a navy jacket and blue pants (pictured). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1095 <![CDATA[Lt. Col. Steve Darnall informs JROTC cadets at McLean County High School about an upcoming competition against other JROTC programs in the state. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1094 <![CDATA[McLean County High School senior Bridget Blake laughs during marching practice with the JROTC program. Blake, who is in a leadership position, plans on attending college to study child care or nursing. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2013]]> image-id:1093 <![CDATA[Principal Steve Jenkins participates with the kindergarten students during calendar time in Angie Taulbee’s class at Trapp Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1092 <![CDATA[Third-grade students James Taulbee and Dillon Berryman use manipulatives to find the area of a shape during Stephanie Rice’s class at Trapp Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1091 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Autumn Scott, Loran Smith, Keegan Swafford and Dylan Perry check their answers together during Betty Anes mathematics class at Trapp Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1090 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Betty Anes talks with her students about using mathematics to understand receiving proper change after a purchase at Trapp Elementary School (Clark County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1089 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Steven Smith helps Nicholas Griffett with a mathematics problem at Trapp Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1088 <![CDATA[Trapp Elementary School teacher Lisa Reece works with primary students on strategies they can use to identify unknown words. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1087 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teacher Angie Taulbee sits with her students during a reading activity at Trapp Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1086 <![CDATA[First-grade student Alexis Shoemaker shows her grandfather a book at Trapp Elementary School's (Clark County) book fair. The book fair was held in conjunction with a Donuts with Dads event that morning. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 21, 2013]]> image-id:1085 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Alexis Malone takes notes in cursive on Lewis and Clark for her group during Susan Hey's class at Bloomfield Middle School (Nelson County). Malone said she enjoys writing in cursive and has started using it in other classes because it is quicker. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 15, 2013]]> image-id:1084 <![CDATA[Kailey Keith writes in cursive during Susan Hey's 8th-grade social studies class at Bloomfield Middle School (Nelson County).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 15, 2013]]> image-id:1083 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Tiffany Beam takes notes for her group in cursive during Susan Hey's social studies class at Bloomfield Middle School (Nelson County).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 15, 2013]]> image-id:1082 <![CDATA[Susan Hey talks with students in her 8th-grade social studies class at Bloomfield Middle School (Nelson County). Hey requires assignments to be turned in written in cursive with ink.Photo by Amy Wallot, March 15, 2013]]> image-id:1081 <![CDATA[First-grade students in Jack Steele’s art class talk with Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe about their art projects at Longbranch Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013]]> image-id:1073 <![CDATA[Bevins Elementary School (Pike County) Principal Amy Swiney advises teachers to take the TELL Kentucky Survey and let their voices be heard. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1072 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Debbie Smith plans the next book to read with the 5th-grade book club at Bevins Elementary School (Pike County). Smith said having common grade-level planning that resulted from the TELL Kentucky Survey, is a benefit to teachers. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1068 <![CDATA[Bevins Elementary School (Pike County) 4th and 5th-grade teacher Reesia Thornsbury talks with her students about the Revolutionary War. All the teachers at the school participated in the first TELL Kentucky Survey in 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1067 <![CDATA[Suzanne Henson helps 5th-grade student Dalton Lowe graph coordinates on an iPad at Bevins Elementary School (Pike County). Students also use the iPads to take tests through CIITS, shortening grading time for teachers, one of the changes at the school prompted by the TELL Kentcky Survey. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1066 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teacher Ashley Branham teaches 3-D shapes to her students at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1064 <![CDATA[Tiffney Triplett helps 5th-grade students Jaylyn Allen and Vyctoria Runyon with an experiment at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1062 <![CDATA[Lauren Bowling and Skylar Johnson use a Candy Land board to play a game about figurative language during Francis Hackney's language arts class at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1061 <![CDATA[Whitney Sowards explains The Great Garbage Mystery activity to her 4th-grade class at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). The activity was a review on informational text using evidence and inference. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1060 <![CDATA[Kristy Frazier instructs her 7th-grade mathematics class on using different strategies to solve a multiplication problem at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1059 <![CDATA[First-grade teachers and guests watch a PD 360 video about the Danielson Framework at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1058 <![CDATA[First-grade student Callie Austin listens to curriculum coach Selena Cochran teach sentence structure during a writing lab at Porter Elementary School (Johnson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 16, 2012]]> image-id:1057 <![CDATA[Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013]]> image-id:1056 <![CDATA[Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe observes Meredith Larison's 3rd-grade class at Longbranch Elementary School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013]]> image-id:1054 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Kaitlyn Richardson and Max Adams talk with Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe about their mathematics lesson in Ellen Steele’s class at Longbranch Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013]]> image-id:1053 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students greet Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe as they walk back to class at Longbranch Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013]]> image-id:1052 <![CDATA[Stephens Elementary School (Boone County) Principal James Detwiler, center, talks with Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe in the library at Longbranch Elementary School during instructional rounds, which involves faculty and staff members from other schools in the district visiting and observing instruction at different schools. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013]]> image-id:1051 <![CDATA[Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County) teachers Margot Smith and Leslie Montgomery wrote Word Nerds: Teaching All Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary. They stress creating a classroom atmosphere where students feel safe to learn about language and take risks. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1050 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Dajianna Anderson, Dylan Peel, DeEunique Hinds and Shaylee Skaggs work on a skit demonstrating the vocabulary words amendment and security during Leslie Montgomery’s class at Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1049 <![CDATA[Dasia Stewart and Zahria Morrison-Nettles play the role of immigrants during their skit demonstrating the vocabulary word citizen during Leslie Montgomery's 5th-grade class at Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1048 <![CDATA[Leslie Montgomery helps a small group with their skit that depicts a vocabulary word during her 5th-grade class at Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1047 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Katie Anderson, Sean Bush and Deyone Clark play a game based on Pictionary with vocabulary words during Margot Smith’s class at Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1046 <![CDATA[Lucius Smith and Lashodd Barnett draw a vocabulary word during a game based on Pictionary in Margot Smith’s 5th-grade class at Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1045 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Stefany Boyd and Justice Silver plan their drawing for a game based on Pictionary that uses vocabulary words during Margot Smith’s class at Atkinson Academy (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 5, 2013]]> image-id:1044 <![CDATA[First-grade student Holden Bays leads the dancing during Lederrick Wesley's music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1031 <![CDATA[First-grade student Carson Hicks listens to Vivaldi's concerto Winter during Lederrick Wesley's music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1030 <![CDATA[First-grade student Ary'onna Tonge pre tents to make snow angels during Lederrick Wesley's music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1028 <![CDATA[First-grade students Meredith Olliges and Kamari Downs during Lederrick Wesley's music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1026 <![CDATA[Lederrick Wesley leads 1st-grade students to put their hands on their heads during his music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1025 <![CDATA[Lederrick Wesley gives 1st-grade students advice on their classroom performances during his music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1024 <![CDATA[First-grade student Donovon Stone leaps through the air as part of his teams performance to Winter during Lederrick Wesley's music class at Bardstown Primary School (Bardstown Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 23, 2013]]> image-id:1023 <![CDATA[School Energy Team members Chase Culbertson and Miquel Quebrata pass out kale chips to Wil McCarter and Drew Clabes during the taste test at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1022 <![CDATA[With his ]]> image-id:1021 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Kayla Chambers-Reed tries a kale chip during the taste test at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). She liked it. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1019 <![CDATA[PTA president Stacy Gedritis gives a kale chip to kindergarten student Mia Lewis doing the taste test at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1018 <![CDATA[After trying a kale chip, first-grade student Riley Arnold said she liked it better than a potato chip during the taste test at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1017 <![CDATA[Student Energy Team members Mikayla Elverson, Madison Woods and Natalie Fowler pass out samples of kale chips during lunch at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1016 <![CDATA[Tresine Logsdon, energy and sustainability coordinator for FCPS, instructs Student Energy Team members Emily Seng, Hannah Hammond and Neely Johnston about their kale presentation to lunch students at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1015 <![CDATA[Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County) food services manager Cathy Ferrell and her staff baked kale chips for the taste test at Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 17, 2013]]> image-id:1014 <![CDATA[Science teacher Shawn Coffey answers questions about diagraming the earth's layers for freshman Payton Bunch and Paige Ramage at Russell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1012 <![CDATA[Business and marketing teacher Robin Rixon helps multimedia publishing students Alijha Shrum and Jacolby Doss at Russell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1011 <![CDATA[Freshmen Abby Wilson, Marissia Roark and Caitlin Hatfield have lunch together at Russell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1010 <![CDATA[Senior Nick Britt talks with school counselor Stacy Coe about scholarship and career options at Russell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 14, 2013]]> image-id:1009 <![CDATA[Preschool student Bowen Carmen clips a piece of paper to an art easel with help from Commissioner Terry Holliday at Green County Primary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1007 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday discusses Next-Generation Science Standards with Lynne Givens at Green County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1006 <![CDATA[Superintendent James Frank, science teacher Jessica Holt and Commissioner Terry Holliday observe student work in Hall's class at Green County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1005 <![CDATA[Green County Area Technology teacher Dave Rauch talks with Commissioner Terry Holliday about his electrician students and their projects. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1004 <![CDATA[Haley Benningfield, a senior in Lana Bay's class, presents Commissioner Terry Holliday with a gift from the district of locally-produced products during his visit to Hart County high School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:1002 <![CDATA[Science teacher Royxe Sidebottom encourages junior Aly Smith to ask Commissioner Terry Holliday a question about required testing during the commissioner's visit to Hart County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:993 <![CDATA[Hart County High School Band Director Ed Johnson talks with Commissioner Terry Holliday, a former band director, while Holliday was visiting Hart county. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:992 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday, right, talks with Hart County High School junior Tyler Shirley, computer technician D.L. Talley and curriculum, instruction, and technology specialist Crystal Thompson about the school's one-to-one computer program. With the visit to Hart County, the commissioner reached his goal of visiting all of Kentucky's school districts. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 15, 2013]]> image-id:991 <![CDATA[Audra Deli-Hoofnagle's encourages her 7th-grade class to run by playing a game where they run to the end of the gym for a key to break a code at Elkhorn Middle School (Franklin County). Deli-Hoofnagle is trained in using the HECAT and PECAT. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2013]]> image-id:990 <![CDATA[Mateline Clements does yoga during Audra Deli-Hoofnagle's 7th-grade class at Elkhorn Middle School (Franklin County). The learning target for the day was]]> image-id:989 <![CDATA[Audra Deli-Hoofnagle high-fives a team of 7th-grade students ater they finished a game where they had to run multiple times to the end of the gym and back to solve a puzzle at Elkhorn Middle School (Franklin County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2013]]> image-id:987 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student David Korleon Bailey holds the downward dog yoga pose during Audra Deli-Hoofnagle's physical education class at Elkhorn Middle School (Franklin County). Deli-Hoofnagle uses the PECAT and HECAT to help align her lessons with national standards. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 9, 2013]]> image-id:986 <![CDATA[Guidance counselor Neal Tindle and senior Kathy Sanders explore her ILP at Frederick Fraize High School (Cloverport Independent). Sanders plans to study culinary arts at Sullivan University. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 4, 2013]]> image-id:984 <![CDATA[Freshman Raven Payton explores financial aid options using her ILP at Frederick Fraize High School (Cloverport Independent). Payton is considering a career in veterinary science. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 4, 2013]]> image-id:983 <![CDATA[Senior Brittany White reviews financial aid with her ILP at Frederick Fraize High School (Cloverport Independent). White plans on studying elementary education after graduation. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 4, 2013]]> image-id:982 <![CDATA[Guidance counselor Neal Tindle talks with students about financial aid options and how the ILP can help them locate scholarships related to their interests at Frederick Fraize High School (Cloverport Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 4, 2013]]> image-id:981 <![CDATA[Yvonne Crank works with Baily Mosley first-grade classroom studies vowels and counting while learning about polar bears at Southside Elmentary School (Woodford) Feb. 6, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:980 <![CDATA[Teresa Brewer's 3rd-grade class at Campton Elementary School (Wolfe County) Feb. 1, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:979 <![CDATA[8th-grade science fair at Williamstown Junior High School (Williamstown Ind.) Jan. 18, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:978 <![CDATA[Williamsburg School (Williamsburg Ind.) Nov 3, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:977 <![CDATA[Claire Price shows her teacher Cathy Chaffman her drawing of her favorite store during preschool class at Whitley County Central Primary School Sept. 21, 2010. The class had just started a three-week unit on stores. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:976 <![CDATA[Kevin Johnson and Nick Johnson play together during free time in Amy Wood's kindergarten class at West Point Elementary School (West Point Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 15, 2012]]> image-id:975 <![CDATA[James Willoughby helps 8th-grade students Paige Tapp and Alli Warren with an outline of the American Expansion during US History class at Dixon Elementary School (Webster) Feb. 4, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:974 <![CDATA[Wayne County High School JROTC instructor Chief Warrent Officer 4 William D. Inman helps senior Diamond Dick, right, prepare her introduction for an upcoming JROTC assembly at the school Aug. 24, 2010. Inman and 1st Sgt. George Snyder started the program at the school 18 years ago. They currently work with about 125 cadets in the program. ]]> image-id:973 <![CDATA[Juniors Fergus McCain and Danielle Mudd learn about heartworm through a gallery in Donna Remington's pre-vet classat Washington County High School April 15, 2009. As part of the Striving Readers program the students created projects examining parasites and then did a gallery walk learnering about them. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:972 <![CDATA[Teacher Taiwanna Bradford helps eighth-grade student Hana Nezirovic with her work during class at Moss Middle School in the Warren County school district Nov. 19, 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:971 <![CDATA[Jamie Sampson helps students answer questions of various taxonomy levels about the poem Digging by Seamus Heaney at Walton-Verona High School March 1, 2012. Sampson uses Bloom's taxonomy with assignments to help students prepare for end-of-course tests. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:970 <![CDATA[Ke'von Lee Wilson Theus puts toy trucks away before lunch during preschool at Morganfield Elementary (Union) April 22, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:969 <![CDATA[School nurse Nellie Hewitt takes Aleah Cull's tempurature at Bedford Elementary School (Trimble County) May 10, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:968 <![CDATA[Teacher Scott Hill talks with his students atTrigg County High Dec. 15, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:967 <![CDATA[Greenhouse teacher Julie Means checks the progress of seniors Steven Wyatt and Andrew Mock's vegetable information podcast at Todd County Central High School MArch 26, 2009. The students were making podcasts to advertise the vegetables they will be selling from the greenhouse. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:966 <![CDATA[Hayley Burress during Debbie Scott's second-grade class at Taylor County Elementary, Oct. 31, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:965 <![CDATA[Michelle Gross and Daniel Cox co-teaching at Spencer County Middle School Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 5, 2012]]> image-id:964 <![CDATA[Music teacher Kendra Abner teaches first-grade students how to make sounds using parts of their bodies at Southgate Elementary School (Southgate Ind.) Sept. 21, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:963 <![CDATA[Erin Stephens talks with her English 4 class about reflective writing at Somerset High School (Somerset Ind.) Feb. 26, 2008. The class was preparing to use a new DVD that addresses writing across the curriculum. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:962 <![CDATA[Counting in a pre-school class at Franklin Elementary School (Simpson) MArch 10, 2010/ Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:961 <![CDATA[Andrea Baker hugs fifth-grade student Kera Franklin after Baker gave her some tips on an Italian Accent to use during a reading theatre activity at Silver Grove School (Silver Grove Ind.) March 5, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:960 <![CDATA[Lauren Allen plays the flute during Tammy Oerther's sixth-grade band class at East Middle School (Shelby) March 25, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:959 <![CDATA[Jerry Parks' 7th grade social studies class at Georgetown Middle School (Scott) Aug 13, 2009. Parks was named to the National Hall of Fame for teachers this year. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:958 <![CDATA[Teaching about safety signs in Tiffany Bray's second-grade room at Science Hill School (Science Hill Ind.) Aug. 21, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:957 <![CDATA[First-grade students Ashley Rimerez and Maria Riuz practice addition during Kristine Kie's class at R.E. Stevenson Elementary School (Russellville Ind.) Jan. 9, 2012.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:956 <![CDATA[Primary student Colin Scott at Russell Primary School (Russell Ind.) May 22, 2009.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:955 <![CDATA[Donnie Wilkerson talks about his Saturday field trips, ]]> image-id:954 <![CDATA[Jennifer Carter, an astronomy teacher at Rowan County Senior High School, encourages her students to analyze data to disover pulsars. Pictured March 16, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:953 <![CDATA[First-grade student Lucas Messer during Derrick Bussell's gym class at Brodhead Elementary School (Rockcastle) Jan. 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:952 <![CDATA[Joshua Underwood helps senior Chan Evans built a model car during robotics class at Deming School (Roberston County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012]]> image-id:951 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Breanna Bays looks at pervios electronic portfolios during Penny Holmes' class at Raceland -Worthington HIgh School (Raceland-Worthington Ind.) Aug. 29, 2008 Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:950 <![CDATA[Dylan Young, Daniel Pitman and Adam Chaney dance the Virginia Reel during Meredith Braun's Dance and Drama class at North Middle School in Pulaski County Jan. 18, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:949 <![CDATA[Bowen Elementary School 5th-grade student Kelby Rose writes a story/reads as part of the snowbound program in Powell County Jan. 12, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:948 <![CDATA[Linda Gray works on vocabulary terms with sophomores at Pineville High School (Pineville Ind.) Feb. 29, 2012. Gray is a retired teacher who now works half days teaching class. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:947 <![CDATA[Johnny Belcher, right, shakes hands with Commissioner Terry Holliday after being named the newest recipient of the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award during a surprise ceremony at PIkeville High April 10, 2012. Belcher is a a mathematics and physics teacher at Pikeville High School (Pikeville Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:946 <![CDATA[Southside Elementary School (Pike County) April 10, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:945 <![CDATA[Principal Delilah Sue Brashear and family resource director Jamie Neace use the fitness room at Viper Elementary School (Perry) Feb. 17, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:944 <![CDATA[Freshmen Joseph Smallwood, Kathryn Deckard and Katie Wilson make up missed work in th ehallway at Pendelton County High School Dec. 22, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:943 <![CDATA[Parent volunteer Jennifer Frye works with 6th-grade student Kellie Medina during Michella Hopkins' mathematics class at Paris Middle School (Paris Ind.) Aug. 26, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:942 <![CDATA[Vernice Piego at Paintsville Elementary School (Paintsville Ind.) work on cursive writing during Sherri Sturgill's second-grade class Dec. 16, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:941 <![CDATA[Alan Tucker, a physics teacher at Paducah Tilghman High School (Paducah), is still finding new features on Infinite Campus and recommends teachers play around with the program to find features that will help them the most. June 2, 2009 Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:940 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Shana Shelton jumps rope while Devin Tirey and Aimee McGraw wait to jump in during Owsley County High School physical education class March 26, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:939 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Mercedes Kirtley, Makayla Stevenson and Sarah Lindsey hula-hoop during an AR reading party at Newton Parrish Elementary School (Owensboro Ind.) March 12, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:938 <![CDATA[Students celebrate as third-grade teacher Mary Inmanreveals the correct answer Owen County Elementary in Owenton March 13, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:937 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student TJ Bonds works on a computer during English class at at Oldham County Middle School No. 14, 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:936 <![CDATA[Sophomores April Luttrell and Micah Coppage during Chris Carter's biology class at Ohio County High School Dec. 8, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:935 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Victor Pineda during Krystal Tubbs' class at Nicholas County Elementary School Aug. 26, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:933 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Kelis McGuire raises her hand to get the attention of substitute teacher Lynn Sutter at Fourth Street Elementary (Newport Ind.) March 19, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:931 <![CDATA[Students from Foster Heights Elementary School (Nelson County) speak with astronaut Catherine Coleman Jan. 28, 2011. Coleman is stationed on the International Space Station. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:929 <![CDATA[]]> image-id:928 <![CDATA[Intermediate CAD student Tyler Spalding checks instruction from his textbook before going to the computer program to work on a drawing.Photo by Tim Thornberry]]> image-id:927 <![CDATA[Intermediate CAD students at the Nelson County ATC look over their drawings on classroom computers.Photo by Tim Thornberry]]> image-id:925 <![CDATA[Intermediate CAD student Tyler McCauley perfects a design he created as part of his classroom activities at the Nelson County ATC.Photo by Tim Thornberry]]> image-id:924 <![CDATA[Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday visits Murray Independent Schools for an "Extra Holliday" Jan. 11, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:922 <![CDATA[Freshman Mariah Lanoire, Hannah Moore and Emily Flener analyze DNA during Jon Ezzell's Principles of Biomedical Science class at Muhlenburg County High School May 20, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:921 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Brent Hollon sharpens his pencil during Kim Hampton's class at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:920 <![CDATA[Monticello Elementary School (Monticello Ind.) Aug. 24, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:919 <![CDATA[Mike Sexton supervises CST students Sara Wood, senior, and Aaron Donathan, junior, as they fix a computer and printer for a teacher at at Montgomery Count High School April 27, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:918 <![CDATA[Beth Veach plays a game with students to help them study spelling at Tompkinsville Elementary in the Monroe County school district Nov. 1, 2007. Students are clockwise from Veach; Hunter Madison, Tyler Geralds, Josh Price, Jamal Tooley, Michael Capshaw, Landon Smith and Makayla Monday. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:917 <![CDATA[Charlotte Webb helps 5th-grade student Brianna Partin with a written response question from the book "Genies Don't Ride Bicycles" the Academy, an after-school program at Middlesboro Intermediate School (Middlesboro Ind.) Jan. 19, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:916 <![CDATA[Conner Miles listens to teacher Michelle Glass talk about long division at Edmonton Elementary (Metcalfe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 26, 2007]]> image-id:915 <![CDATA[Bill Meck presents Weather 101 to a group f fourth-grade students at Mercer County Elementary Dec. 12, 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:914 <![CDATA[Students from Menifee County Elementary School visit the Wildcat Exchange bank at the high school Oct. 3, 2011. Elementary students who wish to use the bank, most use it for deposits, are brought to the high school once a week. Middle school students may visit the bank during their lunch periods. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:913 <![CDATA[Meade County FFA sophomoreLydia Richardson waits to take her herford heffer Buttercup into the ring during the Meade County Fair beef steer shows July 23, 2008 in Brandenburg, Ky. The Meade County High School FFA classes are taught by Jeremy Hall, MArk Adams and ???? Mitchum. Many students used their agriculture knowledge at County fairs during the summer. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:912 <![CDATA[Judy Worthington, with the Migrant Education Program, tutors kindergarden student Nolan Stewart in letter recognition at Calhoun Elementary School Dec. 8, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:911 <![CDATA[field day at Pine Knot Intermediate School (McCreary) June 17, 2010 Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:910 <![CDATA[Instructor OP McCubbins and sophomore Bret Montgomery clean bedding material from Swiffer, an Angora rabbit, at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:909 <![CDATA[Chris Gossum's 8th grade pre-algebra class at Mayfield Middle School(Mayfield Ind.) Jan. 19, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:908 <![CDATA[Amanda White's second-grade classroom at Charles Straub Elementary (Mason) Sept. 29, 2008. White is one of 24 Teacher Achievement Award winners this year. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:907 <![CDATA[Junior Larissa Jude, junior Brett Preton, senior Nick, Bowen and senior Kevin Maymond help senior Andrea Bowen make her way through the carpet maze during Marcie Hanson's Jobs for Kentucky Graduates class at Sheldon Clark High School (Martin) Dec. 16, 2009. During the carpet maze activity they must find a set path through the squares with out speaking to each other. Other students were working on brain teasers. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:906 <![CDATA[Benton Middle Middle School (Marshall) has their Schools to Watch celebration May 7, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:905 <![CDATA[West Marion Elementary School second-grade student Andrew Newton, third-grade student Sierra Bickett and Lebanon Elementary School first-grade student Dalyn Mattingly race West Marion Elementary School principal Benji Mattingly during Unite to Read night at Marion County High School Oct. 29, 2009. Along the race track students had to stop and read horse facts. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:904 <![CDATA[First-grade student Lanzahrae McCarty draws a picture of her family during Mikia Bolen's class at Middle Fork Elementary (Magoffin) May 19, 2008 in Salyersville, Ky. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:903 <![CDATA[Principal Tyler Day stops and talk with second-grade student Tyler Day at White Hall Elementary (Madison), a blue ribbon school, Jan. 14, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:902 <![CDATA[Christian Whalin reads My Side of the Mountian during Julie Wadlington's 6th-grade reading classs at Lyon County Middle School Nov. 15, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:901 <![CDATA[Students measure body parts at Ludlow Elementary School (Ludlow Ind.) Feb. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:900 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Tyson White practices with the band before Olmstead Middle (Logan) has their Schools to Watch celebration May 8, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:899 <![CDATA[Livingston Central seniors Laken Johnson, Kayla Shull and Lindsey Manker place a pan in the oven filled with almond stuffed dates as part of a demonstartion in Rita Hosick's Foods class Oct. 9, 2007. Oct. 9, 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:898 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Morgan Cooper, Maggie Taylor and Jordan Smith look at a jar of plants, fish and snails as they study eco systems during Tina Lasure's class at the Lloyd B. McGuffey Sixth Grade Center (Lincoln) May 9, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:897 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Haley Hardy and Eden Baird tape a slip of paper with a landform on it to the chalkboard during Sharon Gatherwright's class lscience class at Lewis County Central Elementary (Lewis) Feb. 19, 2009. The students were had to decide if a certain landform was created by something being built or something breaking down. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:896 <![CDATA[JOuranlism teacher Rebecca Potter helps senior Tanya Young with a book review at Letcher County Central High School Sept. 9, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:895 <![CDATA[PLC group leaders meet at Leslie County High School Jan. 5, 2011. The group leaders meet every month or so. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:894 <![CDATA[using ten strips to count out gummie bears during Lawanna Teadway's kindergarten class at Southside Elementary School (Lee) Aug. 22, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:893 <![CDATA[Al Baker, Director of Cultural Diversity at Ashland Community and Technical College, talks with students about college life during Close the Deal at Lawrence County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 22, 2012]]> image-id:892 <![CDATA[Senior Candace Kirby listens to instructions during Janna Bailey's AP Calculus class at South Laurel High School (Laurel) March 24, 2009. The students were learning how to find the area of a region between two curves. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:891 <![CDATA[Penny Akers, music teacher of the year, prepares students for a program on folk music at Abraham Lincoln Elementary (Larue) in Hodgenville April 1, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:890 <![CDATA[Karen Schulz helped fourth-grade student Ashley Puckett with her writing assignment at the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville, Ky. Dec. 5, 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:889 <![CDATA[Mari Durrett, a first-grade student at KSB, uses a guide wire to compete in a race. More than 200 children (ages 3-14) who are blind and visually impaired competed in the 30th Annual Bill Roby Track and Field Games at the Kentucky School for the Blind on Wednesday, October 17 in Louisville, Ky. The participants were students from the Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky Schools for the Blind; Jefferson County Public Schools; and Visually Impaired Preschool Services. They competed in a variety of races, long jump, and shot put events. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:888 <![CDATA[Business teacher Virgena Rhodes helps junior Kayla Tidwell explore careers as part of her ILP at Knox Central High School (Knox County) Oct. 29, 2010. She plans on entering the nursing profession. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:887 <![CDATA[Carr Creek Elementary School (Knott County) Feb. 17, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:886 <![CDATA[Twenhofel Middle School (Kenton County) 8th-grade student Jon Webster leads a group of students as they practice a dance to Shakira's "Waka Waka" for a performance at Dixie Heights High School as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:885 <![CDATA[Misty Cox helps sophomore Jared Hendricks with a report about the 1950's at Johnson Central High School (Johnson) May 28, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:884 <![CDATA[mix ingredients for cookies during the Career Options class at the Jessamine COunty Career and Tech Center March 23, 2009. Teaching assistant Pam Vernon talked with the students about cooking careers, including catering, and then the students baked items for a fundraising bake-sale. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:883 <![CDATA[Mathematics teacher Joe Colwell talks with freshman Tiffany Ramey, Baylee Rose, Jordan Bentley and Charity Niece during algebra 1 class at Jenkins Middle High School (Jenkins Ind.) Sept. 2, 2010. The hybrid class is taught half in the classroom and half through Kentucky Virtual Schools. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:882 <![CDATA[Greathouse/Shryock Traditional Elementary School, a Blue Ribbon School, in Jefferson County Nov. 16, 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:881 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Micah Henson and Rachel Griffith complete biography organizers during Cheri Arrowood's class Jackson City School (Jackson Ind.) April 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:880 <![CDATA[Allie Marcum dicusses traits of the Inuit with her partner Rachel Farthel during Peggy Sulfridge's 2nd-grade class at Sand Gap Elementary School (Jackson County). The students were creating history packets with information about Native American tribes. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2012]]> image-id:879 <![CDATA[First-grade students Lyda Brown and Emily Blount walk back to class during Reading Roundup. Education students from the Madisonville campus of Murray state hold a four day reading program "Reading Roundup" during fall break for students in grades 1-3 at Hanson Elementary in Hopkins County, Ky. Oct. 9, 2007. This was the third year for the program. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:878 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Mia Noonan at Hickman County Elementary School (Hickman) Jan. 20, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:877 <![CDATA[Austin Hunsaker leads a discussion about the Virginia Plan and Pickney Plan from the We the People curriculum at Henry County HIgh School Sept. 22, 2008. Also pictured are junior Samantha Gibson, left and sophomore Ashlea Hunt. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:876 <![CDATA[Junior Erin Day and sophomore Tori Royster transplant Dianthus in the greenhouse at Henderson County High School Career and Tech Center March 24, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:875 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade student Gavin Franks examines an egg with two embryos during JoAnn Hall's science class at Roy G. Eversole Middle School (Hazard Ind.) March 28, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:874 <![CDATA[Pat Puckett and Brenda Line help seniors Kelly Pennindton, Meghan Farrell, Kelly Edwards and Rufus Skaggs graph suply and demand curves in their Financial Literacy class at Hart County High School Dec. 10, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:873 <![CDATA[Autumn Smith and Danielle Farmer research the Empire State building during Amanda Caudill's class at Harrison County Middle School April 5, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:872 <![CDATA[Jennifer Brock's class at Sunshine School preschool (Harlan Ind.) Oct. 30, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:871 <![CDATA[Harlan County High School e-school liaison Gayle Jurgens assists students Kerry Partin and Jeffery Glover with their business math assignment Nov. 18, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:870 <![CDATA[Senior Ashley Johnson discusses the Alexander McCall Smith novel The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency with English teacher Kathryn Spaulding during The Big Read at John Hardin High School (Hardin) Aug. 27, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:869 <![CDATA[Theresa Simpson helps Carolyn Smith, Tiffany Crabtree and Corlie Reynolds with their landforms during seventh-grade science class at Hancock County Middle School March 12, 2010. The students were modeling and writing about different land forms. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:868 <![CDATA[During Linda Cochran's kindergarten class at Wurtland Elementary School (Greenup) Dec. 8, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:867 <![CDATA[Green County Primary School Nov. 10, 2009. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:866 <![CDATA[COSI on wheels brings the ag. interests of Kentucky to Wilkey Elementary in Leitchfield, Ky. Feb. 20, 2008. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:865 <![CDATA[Principal Denise Whitaker helps second-grade student Emily Glover follow along during Bobbi Fulcher's class. Interim Commissioner Kevin Noland visits Farmington Elementary, a Blue Ribbon School, Dec. 29 , 2007. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:864 <![CDATA[First-grade students in Stephanie Arnold's class at Dry Ridge Elementary School (Grant) May 4, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:863 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students work out algebra problems during Michelle Lynch's class at the Celtic Academy (Glasgow Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:859 <![CDATA[Rachel Cole does the Hokey Pokey with her first-grade class during a break form reading activities at Paint Lick Elementary School (Garrard) Jan. 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:855 <![CDATA[First-grade student Maria Velazquez plays on the monkey bars during recess at Gallatin Elementary School (Gallatin) Aug. 13, 2007.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:854 <![CDATA[Jerren Brokaw reads during Brigette Thompson’s class at Reidland High School (McCracken County). Library Media Specialist Terri Kirk said having teachers who give time for students to read during class is important. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:849 <![CDATA[Senior English students Breanna Kofron, Kimberly Driver, Allison Rudd and Anna Duncan read during Brigette Thompson's class at Reidland High School (McCracken County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:848 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Terri Kirk shares the book Divergent by Veronica Roth with sophomore Bethany Scott at Reidland High School (McCracken County). Kirk said fantasy and dystopian novels are currently popular with students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:847 <![CDATA[Junior Taylon Chesnutt shows off her bag full of books at Reidland High School (McCracken County). Chesnutt, a fan of vampire and fantasy novels, joked, ]]> image-id:846 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Terri Kirk talks with a group of students about their favorite books at Reidland High School (McCracken County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:845 <![CDATA[Sophomore Shayne Burdette shows Student Success Coach Kirsten Estep his PowerPoint about the MonsterCollege website at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). The students were creating presentations about various employment websites, soft skills and the military. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2012]]> image-id:844 <![CDATA[Student Success Coach Kirsten Estep helps sophomore Tesla Ingram with her PowerPoint on making good decisions during Estep's Career Connections class at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2012]]> image-id:843 <![CDATA[Teacher Scott Howie helps senior Austin Kelley with questions on college and career preparation at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Kelley said he gets more done with less distraction in Howie's class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2012]]> image-id:842 <![CDATA[Teacher Scott Howie gives junior Shantha Davis some good news, that she is working ahead of schedule in the Focus and Finish program at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Davis said she enjoys having class this way. “You can focus on what you need to do and get it finished,” she said. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2012]]> image-id:841 <![CDATA[Commissioner Terry Holliday holds up the final zero of the award amount during an assembly announcing Ryan Williams as the newest recipient of the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award at Mary Lee Cravens Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:840 <![CDATA[Third-grade teacher Ryan Williams hugs long-time friend and co-worker Karen Allinder after he receives the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award at Mary Lee Cravens Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:839 <![CDATA[Third-grade students rush to hug their teacher Ryan Williams after an assembly were he was given the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award at Mary Lee Cravens Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:838 <![CDATA[Third-grade teacher Ryan Williams talks with Commissioner Terry Holliday and First Lady Jane Beshear after being announced as the newest recipient of the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award at Mary Lee Cravens Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:837 <![CDATA[Third-grade teacher Ryan Williams talks with First Lady Jane Beshear after he was announced as the newest recipient of the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award at Mary Lee Cravens Elementary School (Owensboro Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 11, 2012]]> image-id:836 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Davontae Cobb combs a horse’s tail at The STABLES (Fayette County). Cobb said he enjoys working with the horses. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 28, 2012]]> image-id:834 <![CDATA[Sophomore Matthew Kennedy brings Rhett in for grooming at The STABLES (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 28, 2012]]> image-id:833 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Davontae Cobb combs a horse’s tail at The STABLES (Fayette County). Cobb said he enjoys working with the horses. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 28, 2012]]> image-id:832 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Matthew DeRossett, sophomore Caitlin Wade and junior Chris Peach work together taking a horse out to the pasture at The STABLES (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 28, 2012]]> image-id:829 <![CDATA[Sophomore Caitlin Wade walks a horse back to graze after grooming it at The STABLES (Fayette County). Wade said she would like to become a riding instructor. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 28, 2012]]> image-id:828 <![CDATA[Caitlin Wade and Matthew DeRossett clean the barn after bringing a horse in for grooming at The STABLES (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 28, 2012]]> image-id:827 <![CDATA[Teacher Allison Butner works with sophomores Buster McKinney, Nicky Snyder and Franko Beard during keyboarding class at Fulton Independent School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 20, 2010]]> image-id:825 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Madison Halstead answers a question at Fulton Elementary School (Fulton County) for counselor Tamra Parker.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 22, 2011]]> image-id:823 <![CDATA[Fort Thomas Independent School District Assistant Superintendent Rita Byrd teaches 3rd-grade students about time at Woodfill Elementary School (Ft. Thomas Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2008]]> image-id:822 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Jason Gordon carries milk to his classroom at Bridgeport Elementary School (Franklin County).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 12, 2008]]> image-id:820 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Rikki Quarles during lunch at Frankfort Middle School (Frankfort Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 17, 2007]]> image-id:819 <![CDATA[Teacher Cindy Tucker helps 2nd-grade student Preston Hall with a reading and writing assignment at McDowell Elementary School (Floyd County).Photo by Amy Wallot, May 28, 2008]]> image-id:817 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Karli Madden and Lisa DeSautel create African masks during George McKee's art class at EP Ward Elementary School (Fleming County).Photo by Amy Wallot, May 28, 2010]]> image-id:815 <![CDATA[Minority superintendent program intern Wade Stanfield compares his hands size with students at William Wells Brown Elementary (Fayette County). Stanfield said students often take note of his large height, hand and shoe sizes. Touring the schools after the day of the presidential election, younger students thought he was Barack Obama. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 5, 2008]]> image-id:814 <![CDATA[Americorps worker Rhonda Sizemore works with freshman Monica Wright during Carbo Reading Lab activities at Fairview High School (Fairview Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 13, 2009]]> image-id:813 <![CDATA[Art teacher Samantha Young and 8th-grade student Kyla Johnson laugh as they discover Johnson's mask is too thin to move without tearing the clay during class at Estill County Middle School. Students started by sketching a mask, used Model Magic to sculpt, then painted the mask and created a background to go along with their story about the mask. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 10 2010]]> image-id:811 <![CDATA[Student's in Gina Danks kindergarten class wait in line at John W. Miles Elementary School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 26, 2010]]> image-id:810 <![CDATA[Students get on the bus at Eminence High School (Eminence Independent) that will take them to Bellarmine University for classes. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:809 <![CDATA[First-grade student Tyler Maggard demonstrates his counting skills for Jamee Markwell during her class at Sandy Hook Elementary School (Elliott County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 10, 2012]]> image-id:807 <![CDATA[Sabrina Beg looks at political cartoons during Toni Perry's 8th-grade civics class at T.K. Stone Middle School (Elizabethtown Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2012]]> image-id:805 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Madison Kemble, Emily Davidson and McKenna Kemble read a short story they were working on at the Edmonson County 5/6 Center (Edmonson).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 4, 2010]]> image-id:804 <![CDATA[Elaine Helton's 2nd-grade class at East Bernstadt Elementary School (East Bernstadt Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 24, 2009]]> image-id:803 <![CDATA[Elaine Helton's 2nd-grade class at East Bernstadt Elementary School (East Bernstadt Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 24, 2009]]> image-id:802 <![CDATA[Rick Wolf teaches 7th-grade students about reflective writing at Dayton High School (Dayton Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 17, 2009]]> image-id:801 <![CDATA[Freshman Brittney Wells experiments with physical and chemical property changes at Dawson Springs High School (Dawson Springs Independent.).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 16, 2010]]> image-id:800 <![CDATA[A student uses an inter writer during Tricia Murphy's 4th-grade class at Whitesville Elementary School (Daviess County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 30 , 2007]]> image-id:798 <![CDATA[Preschool students Bryce Johnson and Chyna Lofton laugh together before snack time during Maggie Tibbles' class at Hogsett Elementary School (Danville Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 7, 2008]]> image-id:797 <![CDATA[Andrea Parson talks with her 4th-grade class about their observations of the osprey nest they observe on a webcam at Cumberland County Elementary School.Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2012]]> image-id:795 <![CDATA[Crittenden County Elementary School counselor Trudy Bramblett talks with 2nd-grade students Lily Atchison, Lera Adams, Felonie Little and Jalaine Noel on the floor of her office. Atchison is holding the I Care Cat puppet that Bramblett uses with students to help them open up and express themselves.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 23, 2011]]> image-id:794 <![CDATA[Venita Graves helps Damieon Mitchell write words with similar letters during kindergarten reading class at Thomas Edison Elementary (Covington Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 8, 2008]]> image-id:792 <![CDATA[Toyna Proffitt's 5th-grade social studies room at Corbin Intermediate School (Corbin Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov 3, 2009]]> image-id:790 <![CDATA[Debbie Smith's 2nd and 3rd-grade class at Natcher Elementary School (Cloverport Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 9, 2010]]> image-id:789 <![CDATA[Beverly Upchurch, drop out prevention coordinator for Clinton County Schools, works with students using the Read 180 program at Clinton County Middle School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 19, 2009]]> image-id:788 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Shayla Davidson reads in the library at Oneida Elementary School (Clay County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 14, 2007]]> image-id:787 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Shayla Davidson reads in the library at Oneida Elementary School (Clay County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 14, 2007]]> image-id:786 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Tony Batterton and Brandon Crump play on the monkey bars during recess at Strode Station Elementary School (Clark County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 24, 2009]]> image-id:785 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Ziyana Killebrew looks to her teacher, Lindsey Howell, for help at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2011]]> image-id:783 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Stephanie Karl, right, and mathematics teacher Sara Matthews, left, co-teach simplifying expressions to students at Caverna High School (Caverna Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:782 <![CDATA[First-grade students Kebin Rosas and Blake Patton build a large gear pattern during Think Tank, a before school ESS program at Walnut HIll Elementary School (Casey County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 26, 2009]]> image-id:780 <![CDATA[West Carter County High School (Carter County) senior Zac Brasington reads to 4th-grade student Michael Knipp at Upper Tygart Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 3, 2008]]> image-id:779 <![CDATA[Students work on mathematics problems outside at Carroll County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, April 14, 2011]]> image-id:778 <![CDATA[Preschool teacher Jennifer Brower applauds Jackson Williams after he wrote an "m" at Carlisle County Preschool. The students were taking turns writing the letter in upper case and lower case.Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 19, 2010]]> image-id:776 <![CDATA[Campbellsville High School (Campbellsville Ind.) Aug. 26, 2009.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:775 <![CDATA[A student swings on during a warm summer day at Crossroads Elementary School (Campbell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 14, 2009]]> image-id:774 <![CDATA[Preschool teacher Julie Wallace helps Sydney Miller read a book at Calloway County Preschool Center.Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 9, 2009]]> image-id:772 <![CDATA[Susan Meadows' sits with Christopher Empson and a small group of students practicing writing and scissor work during preschool class at Cladwell County Primary School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2011]]> image-id:771 <![CDATA[Butler County Middle School Principal Jeff Jennings switches off a light in the library. According to district energy manager Jimmy Arnold teachers and administrators are taking it upon themselves to help with energy and utility costs.Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:768 <![CDATA[High school students meet at their lockers between classes at Burgin Independent School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 6, 2008]]> image-id:767 <![CDATA[Minie Stump and Kyle Latta box each other using Wii boxing during Amanda Yarbrough's gym class at Bullitt Lick Middle School (Bulitt County). Behind them sixth-grade student Katie Sims follows along with the movements.Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 1, 2009]]> image-id:765 <![CDATA[Students gather in a commons area between classes at Breckinridge County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 9, 2010]]> image-id:763 <![CDATA[Principal Ron Combs talks with 3rd-grade teacher Lesley Wolfe at LBJ Elementary School (Breathitt County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 5, 2012]]> image-id:761 <![CDATA[Cavin Wallace answers questions about prepositions in Heather Brumley's 5th-grade class at Taylor Elementary School (Bracken County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:758 <![CDATA[First-grade students Lindsey Warinner, Kelsey Worthington and Kennedy Fowler demonstrate preventative measures for the flu by washing their hands at Junction City Elementary School (Boyle County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 29, 2009]]> image-id:756 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Clayton Meade, center, leads the student body in a choreographed dance to “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas during the Boyd County Middle School Schools to Watch ceremony. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 30, 2010]]> image-id:754 <![CDATA[Jeanie Orr's class gets one more song in before the bell at Bowling Green Junior High School (Bowling Green Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 16, 2008]]> image-id:752 <![CDATA[Roxanne Mitchell works with 5th-grade students editing sentences at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 20, 2011]]> image-id:750 <![CDATA[Kentucky Teacher of the Year Butch Hamm talks with his students about the vocabulary used in The Crucible during his AP English II class at Larry A. Ryle High School (Boone County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 4, 2009]]> image-id:748 <![CDATA[Teacher Brenda Lambert and senior Bethany Hall laugh as they come across a silly picture from a recent event the student paper was covering. Lambert was helping Hall edit the photos during journalism class at Berea Community High School (Berea Independent). The class publishes two pages in the local newspaper every other week. "It's one of the highlights of my day. I love," Lambert said. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 4, 2009]]> image-id:745 <![CDATA[Kathy Riley, right, talks with school nurse Tabitha Swope at Bellevue High School (Bellevue Independent). The two collaborate on students' mental wellness at the school. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 17, 2009]]> image-id:742 <![CDATA[Emily Saylor prepares for the KPREP test during Stephanie Sanders' 8th-grade reading class at Page School Center (Bell County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 29, 2012]]> image-id:740 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade students Alex Keller and Savannah Smith dissect a perch during Janet Miller's life science class at Beechwood High School (Beechwood Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 25, 2010]]> image-id:737 <![CDATA[Jeremey Booher helps freshman Allie Byrd with a Powerpoint about the career she is interested in during his Business Principles class at Bath County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 27, 2009]]> image-id:734 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Robert Sydnor practices spelling using a Smart Board in the Literacy Lab at Park City Elementary (Barren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2008]]> image-id:732 <![CDATA[Freshman Kristen Miles during Mike Thackers' Algebra II class at Bardstown High School (Bardstown Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 10, 2009]]> image-id:729 <![CDATA[Halloween during Norma Hyden's class at Barbourville City School (Barbourville Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 29, 2010]]> image-id:726 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Alissa Kommer, Wyatt LaPradd, Corey Ringstaff and Zack Ringstaff take turns reading with Mac the dog. Librarian Rhonda Pace brought in her dog for students to read to at Ballard Elementary School 9Ballard County). "Mac the AR reading dog" visits the school every couple of months. According to Pace, having Mac visit brings in reluctant readers to the library.Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 18, 2009]]> image-id:723 <![CDATA[Principal Lisa McCane and assistant principal Robin Kelsch pose with the teaching staff at Augusta Independent Schools after the district had 100% compliance with the TELL survey.Photo by Amy Wallot, May 11, 2011]]> image-id:722 <![CDATA[Taylor Ross studies spelling and definitions during Kelva Nelson's 2nd-grade class at Crabbe Elementary School (Ashland Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 3, 2008]]> image-id:718 <![CDATA[Sophomore Ryan Whitaker, sophomore Madison Stidham, junior Courtney Nash and sophomore Shelby Tracy construct a wreath during the floral design class at Anderson County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 28, 2010]]> image-id:717 <![CDATA[Susan Beach helps 7th-grade student Ellie Fizer read The Call of the Wild at Anchorage Public Elementary School (Anchorage Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, March 20 , 2012]]> image-id:714 <![CDATA[Students walk to class at James E. Bazzell Middle (Allen County).Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2008]]> image-id:711 <![CDATA[Sydney Kimbler, Dean Burton, Kaylee Robinson and Brandon Hagy in Kelly Roberton's 1st-grade class at Colonel William Casey Elementary (Adair County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 29, 2008]]> image-id:709 <![CDATA[randypoe_boonecounty]]> image-id:679 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Derek Fox and Kaitlyn Wiseman create forest conservation posters at Pilot View Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2012]]> image-id:678 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Stacey Moore helps Landon Cline and Jaivion Numan with a conservation poster at Pilot View Elementary School (Clark County). Moore said they participate in the poster contest every year and often have a district winner from their school. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2012]]> image-id:677 <![CDATA[Tonya Duncan teaches numerators and denominators to her 3rd-grade class at Pilot View Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2012]]> image-id:676 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Hannah Sparks eagerly raises her hand to answer a question during Tonya Duncan's class at Pilot View Elementary School (Clark County). The class was learning about fractions. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2012]]> image-id:675 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Ninya Sallee talks about the Revolutionary War with her class at Pilot View Elementary School (Clark County). The students started by first listing the things they already knew about the war and then the things they would like to learn about it. They followed that by examining the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2012]]> image-id:674 <![CDATA[Cameron Spicer works out a pre-algebra problem using the Hands-On Equations program during Ninya Sallee’s 5th-grade class at Pilot View Elementary School (Clark County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2012]]> image-id:673 <![CDATA[This is the first year for Lebanon Elementary School's (Marion County) newest resource room. It was designed by special education teacher Beth Osborne and recommendations from a student's Individual Education Program (IEP). It features softer lighting and more open space. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 12, 2012]]> image-id:662 <![CDATA[Instructional assistant Betty Sullivan works with 2nd-grade student Adam Welschmeyer at Lebanon Elementary School (Marion County). According to special education teacher Beverly Thomas, having everyone in the building working together improves student behavior. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 12, 2012]]> image-id:661 <![CDATA[Special education instructional assistant Alice Young and special education teacher Beverly Thomas play a word game with 3rd-grade students Gavin Bardin and Kenny Hillman at Lebanon Elementary School (Marion County). Thomas said having an understanding support team is very important. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 12, 2012]]> image-id:660 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Gavin Bardin spends a moment looking out the window in the resource room at Lebanon Elementary School (Marion County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 12, 2012]]> image-id:659 <![CDATA[Lonnie Smith compiles biographical information about President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney during Toni Perry's 8th-grade civics class at T.K. Stone Middle School (Elizabethtown Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2012]]> image-id:658 <![CDATA[Sabrina Beg laughs at a political cartoon Brittany Buckner found for her election scrapbook during Toni Perry's 8th-grade civics class at T.K. Stone Middle School (Elizabethtown Independent). The students have to collect and analyze six political cartoons for their election scrapbooks. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2012]]> image-id:657 <![CDATA[Toni Perry helps Cheyennee Conto and Bridgett Hope with their biographies of presidential candidate Mitt Romney during her 8th-grade civics class at T.K. Stone Middle School (Elizabethtown Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2012]]> image-id:656 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Sara Ammons added a picture of President Barack Obama visiting a family friend who had been injured in Afghanistan to her election scrapbook at T.K. Stone Middle School (Elizabethtown Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2012]]> image-id:655 <![CDATA[Toni Perry helps Colby Key and William Dyekman with their election scrapbooks during 8th-grade civics class at T.K. Stone Middle School (Elizabethtown Independent). The scrapbooks have seven categories of information in them, including information about the presidential candidates, political parties and the Electoral College. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2012]]> image-id:654 <![CDATA[Senior Tyler Kurdi talks with Morehead State University School and Alumni Relations Liaison Tim Rhodes during Close the Deal at Bullitt Central High School (Bullitt County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 9, 2012]]> image-id:653 <![CDATA[Students speak with a representative from the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority about how to pay for collge during Close the Deal event at Campbell County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2012]]> image-id:652 <![CDATA[Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson talks with seniors about their postsedondary plans during the Close the Deal event at Bullitt Central High School (Bullitt County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 9, 2012]]> image-id:651 <![CDATA[Seniors visit with college and university representatives during the Close the Deal event at Campbell County High School. All of the Close the Deal events had a college fair as part of the day. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2012]]> image-id:650 <![CDATA[Al Baker, director of Cultural Diversity at Ashland Community and Technical College, talks with students about college life during the Close the Deal event at Lawrence County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 22, 2012]]> image-id:649 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday speaks during the Close the Deal event at Lawrence County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 22, 2012]]> image-id:648 <![CDATA[2013 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Kristal Doolin receives her award from Ashland Chairman and CEO Jim O’Brien. Also pictured are Kentucky Board of Education Chairman David Karem, First Lady Jane Beshear, Gov. Steve Beshear and Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 18, 2012]]> image-id:647 <![CDATA[Kentucky Elementary School Teacher of the Year Heidi Givens of Tamarack Elementary (Daviess County), 2013 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Kristal Doolin of Corbin Middle School (Corbin Independent) and Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year Allison Hunt of duPont Manual High (Jefferson County) were named during the annual ceremony in Frankfort. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2012]]> image-id:646 <![CDATA[Corbin Independent Superintendent Ed McNeel congratulates 2013 Kentucky Teacher of the Year winner Kristal Doolin after the awards ceremony at the capitol. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2012]]> image-id:645 <![CDATA[The 2013 Ashland Inc. Teacher Achievement Award winners pose for a group photo with Gov. Steve Beshear, First Lady Jane Beshear, Ashland Chairman and CEO Jim O'Brien, Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday and Kentucky Board of Education Chairman David Karem. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 17, 2012]]> image-id:644 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Ivanka Basic works with students Elocho Ramazani and Nuridin Mohammed at the intensive language center at Henry F. Moss Middle School (Warren County). Basic was a teacher in Bosnia before coming to the United States. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 11, 2012]]> image-id:643 <![CDATA[Kim Bowman works with her students Ahmed Hadi and Baw Htoo on improper fractions at Henry F. Moss Middle School (Warren County). Bowman said that even if a foreign student's mathematics skills are at grade level, they sometimes struggle with the language of math. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 11, 2012]]> image-id:642 <![CDATA[Kim Bowman works with student in the intensive language center at Henry F. Moss Middle School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 11, 2012]]> image-id:641 <![CDATA[Students Naw Thdaw, Kayan Alanezi, Aoi Koga, Preh Reh and Paulo Ndayikeza work together using manipulatives to demonstrate improper fractions at Henry F. Moss Middle School (Warren County). The students are from Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Tanzania. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 11, 2012]]> image-id:640 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade students Laylee Burchell, Blake Turner and Hannah Harrison display their Civil War bullets during Sharon Graves' 8th-grade American History class at Clark-Moores Middle School (Madison County). Each student in the class was assigned a bullet and wrote a narrative about it. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2012]]> image-id:639 <![CDATA[Sharon Graves talks with her class 8th-grade American History class about how Civil War bullets could indicate which side of the war the soldier was fighting for and their rank at Clark-Moores Middle School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2012]]> image-id:638 <![CDATA[Destiny Chenault explains how her Civil War bullet came from a gun used by the Confederacy during Sharon Graves' 8th-grade American History class at Clark-Moores Middle School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2012]]> image-id:637 <![CDATA[Sharon Graves uses 8th-grade student Caitlyn Ward's arm to demonstrate how doctors would amputate arms and legs during the Civil War to her American History class at Clark-Moores Middle School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2012]]> image-id:636 <![CDATA[Blake Turner shares his bullet narrative with Sharon Graves' 8th-grade American History class at Clark-Moores Middle School (Madison County). Turner wrote a first-person narrative from the point of view of a Civil War bullet from the Battle of Perryville. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 15, 2012]]> image-id:635 <![CDATA[Director of Virtual Arts Mike Bell ]]> image-id:634 <![CDATA[Director of Virtual Arts Mike Bell sets 7th-grade student Olivia Foley up to sing for the virtual choir at Allen Elementary School (Floyd County). After seeing her friends participate last year and liking the final product, Foley decided to participate this year.Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2012]]> image-id:633 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Raven Morrison sang with the virtual chior in Floyd County last year and plans to take part again this year.Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2012]]> image-id:632 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade student Isaac Bell records himself sing The Star-Spangled Banner as part of Virtual Arts at Allen Elementary School (Floyd County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2012]]> image-id:631 <![CDATA[Student sang The Star-Spangled Banner during the first year of the virtual choir at Allen Elementary School (Floyd County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2012]]> image-id:630 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Oakley Johnson completes a virtual owl pellet dissection in preparation for the actual dissection in Jennifer Hagan’s class at Deer Park Elementary School (Daviess County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 25, 2012]]> image-id:629 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Reece Higdon waits to share the fishing spear he made with his class while studying the Seminole Tribe during Mischelle Falloway’s class at Deer Park Elementary School (Daviess County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 25, 2012]]> image-id:628 <![CDATA[The International Baccalaureate curriculum board covers a hallway at Deer Park Elementary School (Daviess County) for all to see as they walk pass. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 25, 2012]]> image-id:627 <![CDATA[First-grade teacher Heidi Dees presents a student’s family glyph at Deer Park Elementary School (Daviess County). First-grade students at the school were studying families and diversity through the IB unit entitled “Who We Are.” Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 25, 2012]]> image-id:626 <![CDATA[Kindergarten students Haley Nichols, Garrison Barker, Sadie Millay and Taylor Curry work together in cooperative groups in Julia Boling’s class at Deer Park Elementary School (Daviess County). Students were asked to think creatively as they reflected on the story A House is a House for Me. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 25, 2012]]> image-id:625 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teacher Julia Boling helps a small group that was brainstorming various types of homes at Deer Park Elementary School (Daviess County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 25, 2012]]> image-id:624 <![CDATA[Michelle Gross and Daniel Cox co-teach mathematics at Spencer County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 5, 2012]]> image-id:623 <![CDATA[Daniel Cox helps 6th-grade student Erica Volz with a mathematics problem while Michelle Gross talks with 8th-grade student Brittlynn Price at Spencer County Middle School. The teachers split the class with Cox helping students with individual instruction and Gross working with students on their goals for the class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 5, 2012]]> image-id:622 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Stephanie Karl, right, and mathematics teacher Sara Matthews, left, co-teach simplifying expressions to students at Caverna High School (Caverna Independent).Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:621 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Stephanie Karl and mathematics teacher Sara Matthews co-teach at Caverna High School (Caverna Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:620 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Jacob Wolf compares pH levels from local water sources during Julie Bunnell's class at the CELTIC Academy (Glasgow Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:619 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students John Richardson, Lauren Campbell and Eli Travis get a pond water sample during Julie Bunnell's class at the CELTIC Academy (Glasgow Independent). The students were testing pH levels of local water sources. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:618 <![CDATA[Julie Bunnell explains the procedure for a science experiment testing pH levels of local water sources to 4th-grade students at the CELTIC Academy (Glasgow Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:617 <![CDATA[Michelle Lynch checks over algebra problems for 4th-grade student Drew Richardson at the CELTIC Academy (Glasgow Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:616 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Tad Shelton works out an algebra problem during Michelle Lynch's class at the CELTIC Academy (Glasgow Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:615 <![CDATA[Mathematics teacher Michelle Lynch leads 4th-grade students in the problem of the day at the CELTIC Academy (Glasgow Independent). Each day at the academy starts with the grade level together for announcements and other homeroom-type activities before students separate for mathematics and science. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 18, 2012]]> image-id:614 <![CDATA[greyhound-panel]]> image-id:613 <![CDATA[winking-lisa2]]> image-id:612 <![CDATA[Suzanne McCowan helps Dustin Lewis with his English IV assignment at the McDaniel Learning Center (Laurel County). Students can work at their own pace in the program. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2012]]> image-id:611 <![CDATA[Principal Roger Wright talks with Erica Edwards about her upcoming graduation during their weekly meeting at the McDaniel Learning Center (Laurel County). Wright meets with each student at the center on a weekly basis. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2012]]> image-id:610 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Jamie Kinsey works with Hannah Barrett on three-letter words at Westside Elementary School (Harrison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 14, 2012]]> image-id:609 <![CDATA[JennyLynn Hatter, supervisor of instruction for Harrison County school district, talks with counselor Ashley Farmer at Westside Elementary School (Harrison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 14, 2012]]> image-id:608 <![CDATA[Principal Jon Hoskins, 2nd-grade teacher Andrea Brandenburg, curriculum coach Melissa Miles and counselor Ashley Farmer discuss student progression during a school-level Response to Intervention meeting at Westside Elementary School (Harrison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 14, 2012]]> image-id:607 <![CDATA[winking-lisa2]]> image-id:606 <![CDATA[greyhound-panel]]> image-id:605 <![CDATA[Suzanne McCowan helps Dustin Lewis with his English IV assignment at the McDaniel Learning Center (Laurel County). The students can work at their own pace through the program. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2012]]> image-id:604 <![CDATA[Principal Roger Wright talks with Erica Edwards about her upcoming graduation during their weekly meeting at the McDaniel Learning Center (Laurel County). Wright meets with each student at the center on a weekly basis. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2012]]> image-id:603 <![CDATA[Sophomore Andrew Lentini and freshman Megan Riley walk down the hallway at Eminence High School (Eminence Independent). After students voiced displeasure in the carpet that used to line the hallway, the school decided to replace it with tile. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:602 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Amanda Dalton high-fives kindergarten student Jacob McGaughey after he writes the alphabet at Eminence Elementary School (Eminence Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:601 <![CDATA[Christina Lucuta helps senior Chelsea Wright create a photo slideshow in iMovie during Lucuta's computer applications class at Eminence High School (Eminence Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:600 <![CDATA[Travis Hernandez, right, talks with senior Tyler Habberfield as part of his community-based problem solving class at Eminence High School (Eminence Independent). Photo by Amy Wallott, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:599 <![CDATA[Eminence High School (Eminence Independent) senior Hannah Ellis uses her computer on the Wi-Fi bus that will take her to Bellarmine University for classes. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:598 <![CDATA[Students get on the bus at Eminence High School (Eminence Independent) that will take them to Bellarmine University for classes. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2012]]> image-id:597 <![CDATA[Turtles from the reptile roadshow are a favorite among the staff at Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:596 <![CDATA[Keonna Gatewood holds a leopard gecko as part of the Reptile Roadshow at Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:595 <![CDATA[In preparation for the Reptile Roadshow, 7th-grade student Aaron Stanley practices his presentation about the eastern box turtle at Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:594 <![CDATA[An orange corn snake wraps himself around 7th-grade student Brandon Noe while he makes a presentation to 7th-grade student Ryan Travis at Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:593 <![CDATA[Teacher Sherry Brown holds Hank the hedgehog while 7th-grade student Micah Deramus presents about hedgehogs at Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:592 <![CDATA[Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County) teacher Denise Ranney talks about how she brought her love pf animals into the classroom. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:591 <![CDATA[Mohamed Hassan helps Twanajia Dorsey handle a python during practice for the Reptile Roadshow at Kennedy Metro Middle School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 6, 2012]]> image-id:590 <![CDATA[Bullitt County CRC students Laranda Thompson, Shelby Morris and Garry Key practice giving a bed bath on a mannequin. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 5, 2012]]> image-id:589 <![CDATA[Scott Metcalf talks with Bullitt County CRC students during his gas tungsten arc welding class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 5, 2012]]> image-id:588 <![CDATA[Brian Dugan talks fuel injectors with Bullitt County CRC junior Corey Ivy in the automotive lab at the Bullitt County Area Technology Center. Ivy would like to open an automotive shop one day. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 5, 2012]]> image-id:587 <![CDATA[Bullitt County CRC sophomores Nik Estes, Eric Rodgers and Cheyenne Cole clean a printing press during Don Easley’s class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 5, 2012]]> image-id:586 <![CDATA[Lisa Herner helps Bullitt County Career Readiness Center (CRC) sophomore Dustin Deindoerfer with a history assignment. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 5, 2012]]> image-id:585 <![CDATA[Donnie Blum offers suggestions to his classmate on what his next move should be in a human chess-like game during the Pulaski Elementary School bullying program. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:584 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students work together to create a marshmallow launcher as a team-building exercise during the Pulaski Elementary School No Girls Allowed anti-bullying program. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:583 <![CDATA[Volunteer Dustin Rader reads Mr. Peabody’s Apples to students as part of the anti-bullying program for Pulaski Elementary School. The story deals with spreading rumors. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:582 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Jaiden Duncan tries to put toothpaste back in the tube during the Very Important Girls event at Pulaski Elementary School. The activity was used to demonstrate that rumors are hard to take back once you share them. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:581 <![CDATA[Northern Elementary School (Pulaski County) Family Resource Center Coordinator Beth Rowlands talks to 5th-grade students about “walking in someone else’s shoes” during the Pulaski Elementary School anti-bullying program. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:580 <![CDATA[Cheyene Hensley, Emily Simpson, Railey Daulton, Shelby Brown and Kayla Gibson draw a picture of their vice-principal while discussing qualities that make a positive role model during the Pulaski Elementary School anti-bullying program for 5th-grade students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:579 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Cadee Francis, center, discusses a scenario where she decides whether to keep a friend after the friend has done hurtful things as part of the Very Important Girls event at Pulaski Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug 24, 2012]]> image-id:578 <![CDATA[Krista Chatham helps 4th-grade students Ashton Walls and Jaiden Jones compare numbers during mathematics class at Cartmell Elementary School (Carroll County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2012]]> image-id:568 <![CDATA[Krista Chatham uses math manipulatives while works with a small group on comparing numbers during 4th-grade mathematics class at Cartmell Elementary School (Carroll County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2012]]> image-id:567 <![CDATA[Sebastian Herald works on place values during Krista Chatham's 4th-grade mathematics class at Cartmell Elementary School (Carroll County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2012]]> image-id:566 <![CDATA[Krista Chatham reviews a worksheet with her 4th-grade class about how to compare numbers at Cartmell Elementary School (Carroll County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2012]]> image-id:565 <![CDATA[Joshua Underwood, center, helps junior Noah Graves and senior Destany Fulton put together a yeast mobile kit during robotics class at Deming School (Roberston County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012]]> image-id:564 <![CDATA[Joshua Underwood uses examples from a student's life, like a recent driving test, to relate scientific methods before an experiment in his Introduction to Chemistry and Physics class at Deming School (Roberston County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012]]> image-id:563 <![CDATA[Andrea Higdon teaches her 8th-grade mathematics class how to measure triangles at East Oldham Middle School (Oldham County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2012]]> image-id:562 <![CDATA[Andrea Higdon, right, teaches Katie Thurman, Hannah Tipton and Emma Wade about triangle measurement and problem solving during 8th-grade mathematics class at East Oldham Middle School (Oldham County).Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 21, 2012]]> image-id:561 <![CDATA[Christina Hartke Towell helps 4th-grade student Tina Zhang change her violin strings at McBrayer Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012 ]]> image-id:560 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Natalie Peyton, Tina Zhang and Cormac O'Brien practice the violin and viola with Christina Hartke Towell at McBrayer Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012]]> image-id:559 <![CDATA[Christina Hartke Towell laughs with students before a strings lesson at McBrayer Elementary School (Rowan County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012]]> image-id:558 <![CDATA[Christina Hartke Towell poses with some of her students at McBrayer Elementary School (Rowan County). She is the teacher, director and founder of the Lucille Caudill Little Strings Program for Rowan County Schools and recipient of the Governor's Award in the Arts in Education. Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 17, 2012]]> image-id:557 <![CDATA[Gary "Trey" Heavrin counts chips during the kindergarten screener at West Point Elementary School (West Point Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 15, 2012]]> image-id:556 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Jessica Wood administers the kindergarten screener to Layla Nalley at West Point Elementary School (West Point Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 15, 2012]]> image-id:555 <![CDATA[Colin Vogt writes his name as part of the kindergarten screener being used at West Point Elementary School (West Point Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 15, 2012]]> image-id:554 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teacher Amy Wood and her student Karina Turner look through a book at West Point Elementary School (West Point Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Aug. 15, 2012]]> image-id:553 <![CDATA[Senior Sam Cain Skypes with Rodrigo Montes, a high school senior in Uruguay, at Menifee County High School. His mother, Maris Montes, a principal in Uruguay, visited the school for two weeks as part of an exchange program. Rodrigo Montes was quizzing her on her Spanish-speaking skills. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 13, 2012]]> image-id:552 <![CDATA[Maris Montes, a principal in Uruguay, and Randy Barrette help students with phrases about morning activities during Barrette’s Spanish II class at Menifee County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 13, 2012]]> image-id:551 <![CDATA[Maris Montes, a principal in Uruguay, and Randy Barrette help senior Jessy Workman with phrases about morning activities during Barrette's Spanish II class at Menifee County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 13, 2012]]> image-id:550 <![CDATA[While visiting homes during the Home Visit Blitz in Henderson County, Commissioner Terry Holliday speaks with Marilyn Dorsey, a school administration manager, and Henderson County High School teachers Brandi Thomas and Andrea Tilly. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 31, 2012]]> image-id:549 <![CDATA[Henderson County High School special education teacher Brandi Thomas visits with sophomore Josh Strong, his mother, Denise, and younger brother, Jordan, during the Home Visit Blitz. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 31, 2012]]> image-id:548 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Brandi Thomas visits with family members of a student in her homeroom during the Home Visit Blitz in Henderson County. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 31, 2012]]> image-id:547 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday and Henderson County High School English teacher Andrea Tilly visit sophomore Kalen Thomas at home before the start of the school year during the Home Visit Blitz. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 31, 2012]]> image-id:546 <![CDATA[Tates Creek High School (Fayette County) freshman Erin Guffey, president of the University of Kentucky KEA student chapter Johnne Lawrence, Salyersville Grade School alumnus Alison Lovely and Mayfield Elementary School (Madison County) science teacher Stephanie Winkler paint an eagle mascot on the outside of the temporary Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:545 <![CDATA[KEA assistant executive director Michelle Duke volunteers filling planters at the temporary Salyersville Elementary School (Magoffin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:544 <![CDATA[Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County) teachers Michelle Whitaker and Angela Brickey decorate a bulletin board for a fellow teacher during a volunteer day at the temporary school. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:543 <![CDATA[Volunteers paint a hallway in one of the buildings of the temporary Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:542 <![CDATA[University of Kentucky elementary education student Emily Strange got into the spirit of painting with stripes on her face at the temporary Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:541 <![CDATA[University of Kentucky secondary mathematics education student Elizabeth McMahon and Fayette County school district bus monitor Diana Becker paint a hallway at the temporary Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:540 <![CDATA[Fayette County school district technology resource teacher Paula Setser and Kentucky Education Association member Barbara Durham help sort and label books in the library of the temporary Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:539 <![CDATA[Salyersville Grade School (Magoffin County) library media specialist Charlene Minix manually enters all of the donated book information into the computer catalog for the new library at the school. Photo by Amy Wallot, July 27, 2012]]> image-id:538 <![CDATA[Madison Southern High School (Madison County) senior mentor Paige VanZandt hugs Ashley Wilson and senior Sierra Lainhart hugs Kendall Sumner at the end of their last meeting together at Silver Creek Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:537 <![CDATA[Madison Southern High School (Madison County) students Rachael Miller, left, and Sierra Lainhart,play a game with a small group at Silver Creek Elementary School (Madison County). Silver Creek students pictured are Reese Brinegar, Emmerson Coffey, Kendall Sumner and Kaleigh Sumpter. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:536 <![CDATA[Madison Southern High School (Madison County) student mentors play a group game with their mentees at Silver Creek Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:535 <![CDATA[Robbie Smith works with sophomore Yadira Gomez on measuring angles of transversals in the Eagle Studio at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:534 <![CDATA[Sophomore Ben Powell drops his egg from the stadium bleachers at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:533 <![CDATA[Sophomores Tyler Hicks, Marriah Walters and KD Webb draw a smiley face on their egg before dropping it from the stadium bleachers at the Eagle Studio at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:532 <![CDATA[Sophomore Derek Howard shows Jessica Bevins the 3-D layout he created using Mindcraft software of the test site for the hydrogen bomb at the Eagle Studio at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:531 <![CDATA[Sophomores Patrick Berry and Tori Wall present the web site they created about cold fusion to their teacher Jessica Bevins in the computer lab in the Eagle Studio at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:530 <![CDATA[Sophomore Jordan Adams presents her brochure, intended for sharing with hospital patients, to classmates at the Eagle Studio at Madison Southern High School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 8, 2012]]> image-id:529 <![CDATA[Using the website Poll Everywhere, sophomores Felecia Headley and Amber Wilcoxson answer questions with their cell phones during Taylor Marshall’s English II class at Frankfort High School (Frankfort Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2012]]> image-id:528 <![CDATA[Sophomores Davesha Bates and Tre Winkfield work together using Bates' cell phone to look up slanted language during Taylor Marshall’s English II class at Frankfort High School (Frankfort Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2012]]> image-id:527 <![CDATA[Teacher Taylor Marshall answers a question for Tristan Fiegel during his English II class at Frankfort High School (Frankfort Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2012]]> image-id:526 <![CDATA[Cells phones are spread around a table as students use them to look up information about word connotation during Taylor Marshall’s English II class at Frankfort High School (Frankfort Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2012]]> image-id:525 <![CDATA[Kamala Combs helps Marissa Hilgerson with English IV work during the Diploma Recovery Academy at Shelby County High School. Hilgerson is the first student in the program to receive her diploma. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2012]]> image-id:524 <![CDATA[Noelle Barnes works with Travis Sloan on an English III assignment during the Diploma Recovery Academy at Shelby County High School. Sloan needed to work during the day to support his family and is getting his diploma for better job opportunities. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2012]]> image-id:523 <![CDATA[Shelby County High School teacher Larry Rhodes helps Nicholas Poe with the difference between nuclear fission and fusion during the Diploma Recovery Academy at Shelby County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2012]]> image-id:522 <![CDATA[Shelby County High School teacher Fernando Marzo helps Da'Ron Dugle with geometry problems during the Diploma Recovery Academy at Shelby County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 25, 2012]]> image-id:521 <![CDATA[Louisville Male High School (Jefferson County) teacher Jeff Wright experiments with building Knudsen pumps during the High School Teacher Fellowship Program at the University of Louisville.]]> image-id:520 <![CDATA[Seneca High School (Jefferson County) science teacher Marlon Francis demonstrates a micro-flow device for high school students during the High School Teacher Fellowship Program at the University of Louisville.]]> image-id:519 <![CDATA[Belfry High School (Pike County) teacher Haridas Chadran and Bellevue High School (Bellevue Independent) teacher Heather Packard dilute gold nanoparticles as part of cancer research during the High School Teacher Fellowship Program at the University of Louisville.]]> image-id:518 <![CDATA[Math teacher Chris Williamson works on a circuit for biomedical purposes during the High School Teacher Fellowship Program at the University of Louisville.]]> image-id:517 <![CDATA[Stacy Geyer, a 10th-grade English teacher at The Academy at Shawnee, teaches a lesson on subject-verb agreement during the Grammar for Teachers professional development at Westport Middle School (Jefferson County).]]> image-id:516 <![CDATA[University of Louisville MAT student Jason Cooper and Jeffersontown Elementary School (Jefferson County) teacher Fife Wicks participate in an activity about subject-verb agreement during the Grammar for Teachers professional development at Westport Middle School (Jefferson County).]]> image-id:514 <![CDATA[Language arts teacher Travece Turner checks answers at "home plate" to questions from a reading assignment at Holmes Middle School (Covington Independent). Her lesson that day involved rearranging her classroom like a baseball diamond where students rounded the bases answering questions. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:513 <![CDATA[Travece Turner's classroom is beautifully painted with an urban theme at Holmes Middle School (Covington Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:512 <![CDATA[Andrew Arnold leads the class in a motivational chant from his desktop during Elizabeth Wolf's 8th-grade English class at Holmes Middle School (Covington Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:511 <![CDATA[English teacher Elizabeth Wolf takes on the character Dr. Ima Reader during her class at Holmes Middle School (Covington Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:510 <![CDATA[Kindergarten students look over the book Aaaarrggh, Spider! after doing art based on the book during the Next Generation Arts Academy at Model Laboratory Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 19, 2012]]> image-id:509 <![CDATA[Model Laboratory Elementary School (Madison County) 4th-grade teacher Jasmine Rutherford helps kindergarten students with an art project during the Next Generation Arts Academy. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 19, 2012]]> image-id:508 <![CDATA[Helen Wheelock tells an interactive story to incoming kindergarten students as teachers from around the state observe during the Next Generation Arts Academy at Model Laboratory Elementary School (Madison County).]]> image-id:507 <![CDATA[University of Louisville art education faculty member John McCarthy talks with teachers about stages of development in children's art during the Next Generation Arts Academy at Model Laboratory Elementary School (Madison County). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 19, 2012]]> image-id:506 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Ally Collins reads to her sister, 2nd-grade student Breanna Collins, during the Literacy Cafe at Crossroads Elementary School (Campbell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:505 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Connor Webster listens to 3rd-grade student Aaron Stewart reading Fox in Socks during the Literacy Cafe at Crossroads Elementary School (Campbell County). Behind them, students fill in posters with who they like to read with and what they like to read about.]]> image-id:504 <![CDATA[Third- and 2nd-grade students read to each other during the Literacy Cafe at Crossroads Elementary School (Campbell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:503 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Jason McDonald, center, chooses a book to read to his 2nd-grade partner during the Literacy Cafe at Crossroads Elementary School (Campbell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 15, 2012]]> image-id:502 <![CDATA[Parent volunteer Sherry White helps 3rd-grade students secure their aprons at the Literacy Cafe concept at Crossroads Elementary School (Campbell County). Several students chose to continue wearing their aprons at school even after leaving the Literacy Café each day.]]> image-id:501 <![CDATA[Berea College junior Seth Hutchins works on memorizing students names during lunch at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Hutchins said he is excited to get his teaching career started.Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:486 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Alice Thackett directs Caden Maynard to say a large number for the rest of the class to create on their flip boards at Southside Elementary School (Pike County).Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:485 <![CDATA[Anaya Ali shows her answer to a given verbal number during Alice Tackett's 2nd-grade class at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:476 <![CDATA[Preschool teacher Rhonda Crigger helps Kenna Hackney, left, and Isabella Moore cut out and paint paper snakes at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). The students were studying camouflage in nature. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:474 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Olivia Jones takes a mathematics test at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:473 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Ryan Scarberry looks for a book to check-out in the library at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). Scarberry said he prefers reading fiction.Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:472 <![CDATA[Dalton Slate takes a quiz on Thomas Edison during Kim Hughes 2nd-grade class at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:471 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Ryan Scarberry looks for a book to check-out in the library at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). Scarberry said he prefers reading fiction. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:470 <![CDATA[Math intervention specialist Suzanne Maynard works on a number line with kindergarten students Makylie Morris and Makenna Fletcher at Southside Elementary School (Pike County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 10, 2012]]> image-id:469 <![CDATA[Students in Andrea Parson's 4th-grade class at Cumberland County Elementary School watch a webcam of an osprey in a nest near Lake Barkley. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2012]]> image-id:468 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Lauren Riley displays her notebook with her osprey observations during Andrea Parson's 4th-grade class at Cumberland County Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2012]]> image-id:467 <![CDATA[Andrea Parson talks with her Cumberland County Elementary School 4th-grade class about its observations of the osprey nest they observe on a webcam. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2012]]> image-id:466 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Matthew King writes down his observations about the osprey his class is watching on a webcam during Andrea Parson's class at Cumberland County Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 11, 2012]]> image-id:465 <![CDATA[Berea College junior Collis Robinson talks with 1st-grade students during lunch at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Robinson originally thought he wanted to teach 5th grade but now enjoys the 1st grade as well. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:464 <![CDATA[Berea College student David Payne talks with kindergarten students during recess at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Payne was an art major who took an elementary education class based on a suggestion from a friend. Now he hopes to teach a primary grade. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:462 <![CDATA[Berea College junior Ashley Elder helps 5th-grade student Crystal Rogers with a line graph at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:461 <![CDATA[Berea College junior Alicia Carman works with 5th-grade student Cecilia Francis during Susan Walters’ language arts class at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Carman would like to teach 4th or 5th grade, where she feels she can make an impact preparing students for middle and high school. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:460 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Wyatt Blevins and Berea College junior Brandi Mills laugh while playing a word game at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:459 <![CDATA[Berea College junior James Lamb works with students in Laura Miller’s kindergarten class at Camargo Elementary School (Montgomery County). Lamb said he would eventually like to work with deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 23, 2012]]> image-id:458 <![CDATA[Jennifer Carter, an astronomy teacher at Rowan County Senior High School, encourages her students to analyze data to discover pulsars. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 16, 2012]]> image-id:457 <![CDATA[Senior Hannah Mabry and sophomore Jessica Pal have both discovered pulsars with the guidance of their teacher Jennifer Carter at Rowan County Senior High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 16, 2012]]> image-id:456 <![CDATA[Members and friends of the astronomy club at Rowan County High School include senior Shabina Pal, sophomore Jessica Pal, sophomore Allison Fletcher, senior Hannah Mabry, sophomore Kara Lewis and sophomore Jonathan Eisenhour at Rowan County Senior High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 16, 2012]]> image-id:455 <![CDATA[Students in Francis Wheatley's automotive technology class use the byproducts of the created biodiesel fuel to make soap that works great in the automotive lab at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. The students are also looking into making candles with the byproducts. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 30, 2012]]> image-id:454 <![CDATA[Franklin County High School senior Devin Green and automotive technology teacher Francis Wheatley wash their hands using the soap that is made as a byproduct of making biodiesel fuel at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 30, 2012]]> image-id:453 <![CDATA[Franklin County High School junior James Shuler displays jars of collected and purchased vegetable oil during Francis Wheatley's automotive technology class at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. The students filter the collected oil to be used in automobiles. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 30, 2012]]> image-id:452 <![CDATA[Franklin County High School junior Greg Hazlett lights lanterns to test the candle oil the students make as a byproduct of biodiesel fuel during Francis Wheatley's automotive technology class at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 30, 2012]]> image-id:451 <![CDATA[Western Hills High School (Franklin County) junior Thomas Younger performs a methanol test during Francis Wheatley's automotive technology class at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 30, 2012]]> image-id:450 <![CDATA[Western Hills High School (Franklin County) junior Nathan Eversole stands near the filtering system used to create biodiesel at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 30, 2012]]> image-id:449 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Allison Smith, Alex Smith, Naomi Desrosiers and Ben Meza perform an experiment on density during Susan Yusk's science class at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:448 <![CDATA[Guidance counselor Gina Crabtree works with 2nd-grade students on the Seven Habits of Happy Kids during a weekly guidance class at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012 ]]> image-id:447 <![CDATA[Susan Yusk demonstrates the varying densities of Coke and Diet Coke with a floating experiment at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:446 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Molly Manley reads The Giver by Lois Lowry at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). According to teacher Maura Gerard, the class will be reading all Newbery Award winners this year. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:445 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Nate Tooley reviews Chinese with teacher Jing Liu at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:444 <![CDATA[Chinese teacher Jing Liu calls on 2nd-grade students at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:443 <![CDATA[Laine Evans reads Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells to her kindergarten class before recess at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:442 <![CDATA[First-grade student Addison Herrman listens as a classmate presents her show and tell item at McNeill Elementary School (Warren County). Herman’s teacher, Emily Mills, uses show and tell as a time to focus on speaking and listening standards like speaking to an audience and making good eye contact. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 24, 2012]]> image-id:441 <![CDATA[Dylan Collins completes a worksheet during Stephanie Sanders’ 8th-grade reading class at Page School Center (Bell County) while preparing for the K-PREP tests. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 29, 2012]]> image-id:440 <![CDATA[Stephanie Sanders helps Darrin Traxler with a question from a Common Core Standards workbook during 8th-grade reading class at Page School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 29, 2012]]> image-id:439 <![CDATA[Tyler Wright reviews a common core standards workbook to prepare for the K-PREP tests during Stephanie Sanders’ 8th-grade reading class at Page School Center (Bell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 29, 2012]]> image-id:438 <![CDATA[Jefferson County Traditional Middle School student Tyler Lucas, right, reads to Navarro Walker, a 1st-grade student at Cochran Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Justin Willis, March 6, 2012]]> image-id:437 <![CDATA[Elliott Adkins, a 1st-grade student at Cochran Elementary School (Jefferson County), offers some story feedback to Emalee Harris, a Jefferson County Traditional Middle School student. Photo by Justin Harris, March 6, 2012 ]]> image-id:436 <![CDATA[First-grade teacher Stephanie Maynard helps a group of Jefferson County Traditional Middle School students find new reading partners at Cochran Elementary School (Jefferson County). The middle school students wrote and illustrated their own books, which they later read aloud to Cochran elementary students. Photo by Justin Willis, March 6, 2012]]> image-id:435 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Autumn Jackson, left, and Ariyana Ridgeway enjoy a story read by Jarius Jones, a student at Jefferson County Traditional Middle School. Photo by Justin Willis, March 6, 2012 ]]> image-id:434 <![CDATA[Jefferson County Traditional Middle School student Rebekah Harris shares her original story with Lee'Shawna Bell, a 2nd-grade student at Cochran Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Justin Willis, March 6, 2012 ]]> image-id:433 <![CDATA[Sophia Warren, a student at Jefferson County Traditional Middle School, reads to 2nd-grade student Shakayla Huguely at Cochran Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Justin Willis, March 6, 2012]]> image-id:432 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday speaks with members of the Next-Generation Student Council in Frankfort Feb. 28, 2012. Pictured are Pikeville High School sophomore Tiffany Parham, Butler County High School junior Hunter Peay and Pikeville High School junior Iman Ali. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:431 <![CDATA[Henderson County High School junior Jake Walker, Russell High School sophomore Morgan Casto and Murray High School sophomore Tiffany Parham laugh with state Rep. and House Education ChairmanCarl Rollins as he jokes with them about education bill during the inaugural meeting of the Next-Generation Student Council Feb. 28, 2012 in Frankfort. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:430 <![CDATA[Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) senior Cory Banta talks about arts and humanities education with Commissioner Holliday during the inaugural meeting of the Next-Generation Student Council Feb. 28, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:429 <![CDATA[Members of the inaugural Next-Generation Student Council pictured Feb. 28, 2012 in Frankfort, Ky. Front row (left to right): Male High School junior Natalie Fahrbach, Russell High School sophomore Morgan Casto, Pikeville High School junior Iman Ali, Murray High School sophomore Tiffany Parham and Burgin High School senior Brittany Hughes. Back row: Boone County High School sophomore Logan VanWay, Bryan Station High School Cory Banta, Butler County High School junior Hunter Peay, Henderson County High School junior Jake Walker, North Bullitt High School senior Forrest Miller and South Laurel High School junior Blair Walden. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:428 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Cole Williams whispers his score from a test to his teacher Debbie Craft at Hindman Elementary School (Knott County). Craft likes how quickly she can design a test with CIITS. At right is 4th-grade student Maston Hicks. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb 8, 2012]]> image-id:427 <![CDATA[Faith Combs takes a test on equivalent fractions using CIITS during Debbie Craft's 4th-grade class at Hindman Elementary School (Knott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb 8, 2012]]> image-id:426 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Amber Stewart talks with Sydnie Ritchie, Matthew Cornett and Braxton Rair about idioms at Hindman Elementary School (Knott County). Using CIITS, she was able to quickly put together review questions on the subject to use in her class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb 8, 2012]]> image-id:425 <![CDATA[Daniel Hall and Devin Nickles log into the Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology System (CIITS) to take a quiz during Amber Stewart's 4th-grade class at Hindman Elementary School (Knott County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb 8, 2012]]> image-id:424 <![CDATA[Michael Barker used items from a dollar store, including this Nerf-style gym that uses a spring launch and these rubber aliens that can be launched from a slingshot, for a projectile motion lab in his Honors Physics class at Newport High School (Newport Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 9, 2012]]> image-id:423 <![CDATA[Seniors Jarrod Elliott and Jake Specht take angle measurements while trying to launch a sling shot device during Michael Barker's Honors Physics class at Newport High School (Newport Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 9, 2012]]> image-id:422 <![CDATA[Michael Barker, right, demonstrates for juniors Brandon Laycock and Marquis Commodore how to launch and time an air launched ball during Honors Physics class at Newport High School (Newport Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 9, 2012]]> image-id:421 <![CDATA[Junior Tiffany Lyons launches an alien sling shot during Michael Barker's Honors Physics class at Newport High School (Newport Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 9, 2012]]> image-id:420 <![CDATA[Senior Andrew Marsee launches a sling shot device for a lab on projectile motion in Michael Barker's Honors Physics class at Newport High School (Newport Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 9, 2012]]> image-id:419 <![CDATA[Senior Mary Vorhees and Bria Staten-Favors work together launching and taking measurements from a spring launched item during Michael Barker's Honors Physics class at Newport High School (Newport Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 9, 2012]]> image-id:418 <![CDATA[Sifi Peter and Lanisha Porter create a poster in multiple languages, including Arabic and Swahili, to remind students to watch their language in the hallways at Central High School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 31, 2012]]> image-id:417 <![CDATA[Central High teacher Joe Gutmann watches over students as they create posters aimed at promoting fewer cuss words and more civility in the Jefferson County school. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 31, 2012]]> image-id:416 <![CDATA[Angel Cissell and Tiffany Truong create a hallway poster as part of the Youth Council on Human Rights during Joe Gutmann’s law and government class at Central High School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 31, 2012]]> image-id:415 <![CDATA[DeVictor McElroy and Brionna Thompson are the president and vice-president of the Youth Council on Human Rights at Central High School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 31, 2012]]> image-id:414 <![CDATA[Maya Spalding displays a hallway poster she made with Erica Talbott during Joe Gutmann's law and government class at Central High School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 31, 2012]]> image-id:413 <![CDATA[Retired teacher Carol Rietze works part-time teaching sophomore English at the JCPS eSchool. “I still can affect students personally through e-mail,” she said. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 6, 2012]]> image-id:412 <![CDATA[Ruth Ann Driggers teaches Spanish classes through the JCPS eSchool. Driggers has been with the program since its beginning in 2000. “I found it a really great opportunity after 31 years in the classroom. I can use that content knowledge to help students online,” she said. Also pictured is English teacher Erik Nicholson. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 6, 2012]]> image-id:411 <![CDATA[JCPS eSchool middle school teacher Marissa O’Neal works on revising a lesson plan to align with the new core content standards. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 6, 2012]]> image-id:410 <![CDATA[Michael Ryan-Kessler teaches both high school and college courses through the JCPS eSchool. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 6, 2012]]> image-id:409 <![CDATA[Jovawn Ogburn is taking history and chemistry courses through JCPS eSchool. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 6, 2012]]> image-id:408 <![CDATA[Jefferson County High School students Darricka Collier and Joylisha Walker take math classes through the JCPS eSchool and plan to participate in graduation ceremonies in the spring. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 6, 2012]]> image-id:407 <![CDATA[Jessica McPherson helps 4th-grade students Keaton Emmert and Morgan Comer with an assignment on equivalent fractions at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:406 <![CDATA[Social studies teacher Brandi Plumlee talks with her students at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:405 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Felisa Brooks helps 4th-grade students Lizzie Brown and Maston Comer in Jessica McPherson's mathematics class at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:404 <![CDATA[A student walks by a mural featuring a tiger, the school's mascot, by Kentucky artist Lori James at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:403 <![CDATA[After finishing a test on time and measurement, 2nd-grade student Tabitha Wood reads Dr. Seuss while waiting to go to lunch at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:402 <![CDATA[Abby Trent helps 2nd-grade student Ashley Rush with a question about time at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:401 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teachers Keri Eaton and Devon McCormick collaborate on lesson plans during their lunch period at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:400 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Karina Carmona keeps the beat to “If You're Happy and You Know It” with spoons during music class at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:399 <![CDATA[First-grade student Gracie Vinson hugs long-term substitute teacher Whittany Shaw while walking into music class at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:398 <![CDATA[Jaxon Turner and Cassidy Huber work together to find equivalent fractions during Jessica McPherson's 4th-grade class at Gamaliel Elementary School (Monroe County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 2, 2012]]> image-id:397 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Sarah Howell, Alexander Dimayuga and Alden Beers learn words for different sports and activities during Miko Momozono's Japanese class at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:395 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Celeste Kayigamba practices hiragana, a Japanese syllabary, during Miko Momozono's class at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:394 <![CDATA[Celeste Kayigamba, Dorian Washington and Katie Franklin volunteer to practice Japanese characters during Miko Momozono's class at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10. 2012]]> image-id:393 <![CDATA[Second-grade students practice Japanese characters with a brush at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Learning with the brush helps them learn the correct stroke pattern according to Japanese teacher Miko Momozono. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:392 <![CDATA[Notes from students at Picadome Elementary School's partner school in Japan adorn the hallways. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan, 10, 2012]]> image-id:391 <![CDATA[Miko Momozono heads to a 2nd-grade class to teach Japanese at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). She visits the kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades, while the 3rd - and 4th-grade students come to her for class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:390 <![CDATA[Japanese teacher Miko Momozono laughs with kindergarten student Abby Hutchison as she places a blindfold on her to play a directional game at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:389 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Carlyn Sharp guides Miles Kohn in the placement of facial features using the Japanese words for up, down, right and left at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:388 <![CDATA[Shosei Kagotani listens to Miko Momozono teach direction words in Japanese at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:387 <![CDATA[Miko Momozono teaches Japanese to Beth Heimann's kindergarten class at Picadome Elementary School (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 10, 2012]]> image-id:386 <![CDATA[Andrew Davis and Kelcie Denny check out Karyna Davis' mini tornado during the 8th-grade science fair at Williamstown Junior High School (Williamstown Ind.) Jan. 18, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:384 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student David Long describes his experiment to science teacher Sean Binder during the science fair at Williamstown Junior High School (Williamstown Ind.) Jan. 18, 2012.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:383 <![CDATA[Cassandra Kramer describes her experiment that examined soaking popcorn kernels in different sodas before popping during the 8th-grade science fair at Williamstown Junior High School (Williamstown Ind.) Jan. 18, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:382 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Zander Jones, Logan Allphin, Nick Lucas and Anthony Wolford look over Jose Espicio' s experiment about color and heat absorption during the 8th-grade science fair at Williamstown Junior High School (Williamstown Ind.) Jan. 18, 2012. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:381 <![CDATA[Bowen Elementary School 5th-grade student Kelby Rose writes a story at his grandmother's house as part of the Snowbound Program in Powell County. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 12, 2012.]]> image-id:380 <![CDATA[Stanton Elementary School 1st-grade students Riley Stidham and Peyton Clark get physical using a Wii as part of the Snowbound Program in Powell County. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 12, 2012]]> image-id:379 <![CDATA[Stanton Elementary School 4th-grade student Preston Wasson solves grammar problems on the Education City website as part of the Snowbound Program in Powell County. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 12, 2012]]> image-id:378 <![CDATA[Powell County High School senior Alicia Wasson works on mathematics problems in her bedroom as part of the Snowbound Program in Powell County. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 12, 2012.]]> image-id:377 <![CDATA[Powell County High School freshman Darren Wasson reads an Accelerated Reader book at home as part of the Snowbound Program in Powell County. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 12, 2012.]]> image-id:376 <![CDATA[The new field house at Butler County High School was built with light panels in the ceiling, which allow the building to be lit with natural light for most of the day, saving utility costs. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:375 <![CDATA[Butler County Middle School Principal Jeff Jennings switches off a light in the library. According to district energy manager Jimmy Arnold teachers and administators are taking it upon themselves to help with energy and utility costs. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:374 <![CDATA[School energy manager Jimmy Arnold knows when and where the sun hits each school building and can adjust heating and cooling needs as necessary in Butler Count. Sydnee Cameron, Kasoshaa Turner and Caitlyn Campbell get a splash of sun while walking throught the hall at Butler County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:373 <![CDATA[School energy manager Jimmy Arnold monitors Bulter County schools' utility usage from his office Jan. 6, 2012.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:372 <![CDATA[Craig Scharf talks with his STEM Academy students Josh Lindsey and Vaughn Reed about entering the Team America Rocketry Challenge at Muhlenberg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:371 <![CDATA[Seniors Dale Sullivan, Garris Stroud, Jeremy Wells and Josh Lindsey review last year's rocket in preparation for building this year's to enter in the Team America Rocketry Challenge at Muhlenberg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:370 <![CDATA[STEM Academy senior Jacob Latham, second from left, talks about his project measuring the magnetic fields of Jupiter with his classmates at Muhlenberg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:369 <![CDATA[Senior Garris Stroud, right, uses a heart rate monitor to test the biological effects of music on senior Vaughn Reed as part of his project for the STEM. Academy at Muhlenberg County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 6, 2012]]> image-id:368 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday directs the band during practice of “O Magnum Mysterium” at Murray High School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:367 <![CDATA[Murray High School (Murray Ind.) band director Tim Zeiss handed over the baton to Education Commissioner Terry Holliday, a former band director, during class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:366 <![CDATA[Murray Middle School (Murray Ind.) cafeteria manager Diane Dong put Education Commissioner Terry Holliday to work serving mashed potatoes during his visit. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:365 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday visits with 5th-grade student Shawn Blanton and teacher's aide Diane Young during Nicole Barnette's class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:364 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday helps 7th-grade student Sarah McDowell with her clay pitcher during Gena Maley's art class at Murray Middle School (Murray Independent). The students had to create a functional clay piece. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:363 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Joshua Tyson and Daniel Lewis exchange money with ]]> image-id:362 <![CDATA[First-grade student Tayshaun Carter and Education Commissioner Terry Holliday practice high and low notes with tone bells during Kim Black's music class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:361 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Alex King gives an unexpected hug to Education Commissioner Terry Holliday during Rebecca Kough's class at Murray Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012.]]> image-id:360 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday reads from “The Tempest” with 3rd-grade students Landon Jones, Patrick Jones and Reese Wilson during Holly Bloodworth's class at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:359 <![CDATA[Spanish teacher Lauren Hines works with 1st-grade students while Education Commissioner Terry Holliday, right, listens in at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:358 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday meets with resource teacher Ashley James, 3rd-grade teacher Courtney Vanover and guidance counselor Amber May at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:357 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Layton Batts and Education Commissioner Terry Holliday greet students getting off the bus at Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:356 <![CDATA[Marcy Black's 2nd-grade students created a list of things they thought Education Commissioner Terry Holliday does prior to his visit to Murray Elementary School (Murray Independent). Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 11, 2012]]> image-id:355 <![CDATA[Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) teacher Andrea Meyer stands at the mobilization station in Fort Hood, Texas. She spent 30 days there training before leaving for Kuwait.]]> image-id:354 <![CDATA[Andrea Meyer's class at Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) has a patriotic feel since her deployment to Kuwait earlier in the school year. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2011]]> image-id:353 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Hunter Clark takes down a day in a Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) classroom countdown until his teacher, Andrea Meyer, returns from her deployment in Kuwait. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2011]]> image-id:352 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Andrea Meyer waves goodbye to her class at Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) from Kuwait.Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2011]]> image-id:351 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Blake Perkins uses his Skype time with teacher Andrea Meyer to sing Christmas carols at Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County). Meyer was communicating from Kuwait. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2011]]> image-id:350 <![CDATA[Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) students Hunter Clark, Aaron Muss, Ciera Davis, Miranda Ford and Josh Givan huddle around a computer to Skype with their teacher, Andrea Meyer, while she is in Kuwait. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 14, 2011]]> image-id:349 <![CDATA[Judy Worthington, with the Migrant Education Program, tutors kindergarten student Nolan Stewart in letter recognition at Calhoun Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 8, 2011]]> image-id:348 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Carlos Zuniga works with Migrant Education Program Judy Worthington at Calhoun Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 8, 2011]]> image-id:347 <![CDATA[Judy Wood, with the Migrant Education Program at McLean County Schools, helps Maria Hernandez look up her son's grades in Infinite Campus. Also pictured, Consuelo Pineda checks her son's progress. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 8, 2011]]> image-id:346 <![CDATA[Kindergarten teacher Rhonda Gardner works with students on the difference between fiction and non-fiction books at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:345 <![CDATA[Allyson Jones works with students in small groups during her math class at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:344 <![CDATA[Izzy Salter, Brayden Gillman, Rayshaun Justicer and Paige Ossege play Beat the Calculator during Allyson Jones' 3rd-grade class at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:343 <![CDATA[Allison Burghaze measures line segments during Allyson Jones' 3rd-grade class at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:342 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holiday listens to the 5th-grade choir sing My Old Kentucky Home during the Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.) Blue Ribbon School ceremony. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:341 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Toby Carter listens to guest speakers during the Blue Ribbon School ceremony at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:340 <![CDATA[Tina Reynolds celebrates Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.) being named a Blue Ribbon School with her 4th-grade students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:339 <![CDATA[Silvia McClamrock teaches 4th-grade students Haley Turner and Bailey Hall colors in Spanish at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Students at the school take a weekly Spanish class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:338 <![CDATA[Students in Kely Smith's 5th-grade class work on a spelling worksheet at Woodfill Elementary School (Fort Thomas Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Dec. 6, 2011]]> image-id:337 <![CDATA[Krystal Johnson helps Graves County High School junior and machine tool student Khourey Toon work on his resume at the Mayfield/Graves Area Technology Center. ]]> image-id:336 <![CDATA[Krystal Johnson helps machine tool students create a resume at the Mayfield/Graves Area Technology Center. ]]> image-id:335 <![CDATA[Graves County High School juniors Matthew Forrest and Kendrick Ross practice interview questions during a resume and interview workshop run by Krystal Johnson at the Mayfield/Graves Area Technology Center.]]> image-id:334 <![CDATA[Carlisle County High School senior Jacob Jones completes a worksheet to help him build his resume during a workshop led by Krystal Johnson at the Mayfield/Graves Area Technology Center. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 15, 2011]]> image-id:333 <![CDATA[Jennifer Fritsch, executive producer for Q102 in Cincinnati, talks with 8th-grade student Zania Rogers as part of Operation Preparation at Campbell County Middle School Nov. 14, 2011. Fritsch has committed to volunteer as a mentor for the spring program. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:332 <![CDATA[Jennifer Fritsch, executive producer for Q102 in Cincinnati, talks with 8th-grade student Zania Rogers as part of Operation Preparation at Campbell County Middle School Nov. 14, 2011. Fritsch has committed to volunteer as a mentor for the spring program. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:331 <![CDATA[Jennifer Fritsch, executive producer for Q102 in Cincinnati, talks with 8th-grade student Zania Rogers as part of Operation Preparation at Campbell County Middle School Nov. 14, 2011. Fritsch has committed to volunteer as a mentor for the spring program. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:330 <![CDATA[Jennifer Fritsch, executive producer for Q102 in Cincinnati, talks with 8th-grade student Zania Rogers as part of Operation Preparation at Campbell County Middle School Nov. 14, 2011. Fritsch has committed to volunteer as a mentor for the spring program. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:329 <![CDATA[Students' hand-made microscopes line a window ledge in Rebecca Logan's 5th-grade STEM class at Elkhorn Elementary School (Franklin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 9, 2011]]> image-id:328 <![CDATA[Jake Berry displays his team's gumdrop bridge made in Rebecca Logan's 5th-grade STEM class at Elkhorn Elementary School (Franklin County). Students studied bridge structures and the strengths of shapes to build a bridge that would hold the most pencils. Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 9, 2011]]> image-id:327 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Faith Lewis, Harmon Clark and Makenna Falor stand with their squirrel-proof bird feeder they built in Rebecca Logan's STEM class at Elkhorn Elementary School (Franklin County). Photo by Amy Wallot. Nov. 9, 2011]]> image-id:326 <![CDATA[Justin Suter, Sasha Sairajeev, Kienan Ramlee and Kaitlyn Carmack work together building a Mars rover that will compete to scoop up ping pong balls during Rebecca Logan's 5th-grade STEM class at Elkhorn Elementary School (Franklin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov, 9, 2011]]> image-id:325 <![CDATA[Rebecca Logan helps students come to their own conclusions during her 5th-grade STEM class at Elkhorn Elementary School (Franklin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 9, 2011]]> image-id:324 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Savella Rankins demonstrates a microscope she built in Rebecca Logan's STEM class at Elkhorn Elementary School (Franklin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Nov. 9, 2011]]> image-id:323 <![CDATA[Sophomore Tabitha Martin is the loan officer for the Wildcat Exchange, the bank at Menifee County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2011]]> image-id:322 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Kaitlyn Profitt and Thomas Garcia paint owls during Lydia Childress' class at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:321 <![CDATA[Students practice angle measurements using Study Island during Lynn Cloyd's 4th-grade class at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:320 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Lynn Cloyd speaks with Education Commissioner Terry Holliday at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:319 <![CDATA[Shauna Phillips helps 4th-grade students Ripley Martin and Nick Curran measure angles using pizza slices as a reference at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:318 <![CDATA[Social studies teacher Roxanne Mitchell works with 5th-grade students editing sentences at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County). “The value of a small school is epitomized (here),” Mitchell said. “We are a family who cares about each other personally and professionally. There is no negativity, and our focus is success for all of our students.” Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 20, 2011]]> image-id:317 <![CDATA[Rex Blackburn celebrates his whole class getting the answer correct during Amy Brown's 3rd-grade mathematics class at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:316 <![CDATA[Education Commissioner Terry Holliday talks with 3rd-grade students Landon Brown and Rayna Roberts at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:315 <![CDATA[Tammy Purcell reads an Amelia Bedelia book to students while teaching them about idioms at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:314 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Jonmarie Lehmann uses an iPad to draw ]]> image-id:313 <![CDATA[First-grade students Gracie Ring and Brooke Edgington play with puppets during an indoor recess at North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County), a Blue Ribbon School, Oct. 20, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:312 <![CDATA[Sophomore Helen Merritt and junior Aaron Clark display a few of the costumes stored in the costume shop at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). The small room is filled with costumes, hats, wigs and other accessories students can use to transform themselves for performances. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:311 <![CDATA[Hancock County High School senior Madison Henderson applies old age makeup to Owensboro High School sophomore Libby Champion during Theater Art and Technical Theater class at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:310 <![CDATA[Technical theater teacher Carolyn Greer does an old-age makeup demonstration on sophomore Libby Champion at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:309 <![CDATA[Junior Cody Jennings and senior Korin Cross screw together wall flats during Theater Art and Technical Theater class at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). According to teacher David Walker, even students who don't continue in performing arts will benifit from the class by learning practical living skills. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:308 <![CDATA[Keith Woosley fixes a gel on a light during Theater Art and Technical Theater class at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:307 <![CDATA[Teacher Carolyn Green, left, helps students remove stage curtains from the Black Box theater during Theater Art and Technical Theater class at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:306 <![CDATA[Junior Isaac Settlers and senior Kourtney Baggett move wall flats that need to be painted during Theater Art and Technical Theater class at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:305 <![CDATA[Senior Grae Greer and sophomore Keith Woosley work on lighting cues for an upcoming production during Theater Art and Technical Theater class at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:304 <![CDATA[Technical theater teacher Carolyn Greer and theater arts teacher David Walker instruct students in the Black Box theater at Owensboro High School (Owensboro Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 19, 2011]]> image-id:303 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Shelby Napier uses Scratch programming software to create a maze game during Scott Walker's game design class at Bate Middle School (Danville Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 7, 2011]]> image-id:302 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Cameron McCullough uses JavaScript to create a game during Scott Walker's game design class at Bate Middle School (Danville Ind.). Students start the year using the drag and drop software Scratch and advance to learning JavaScript. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 7, 2011]]> image-id:301 <![CDATA[Scott Walker helps 8th-grade student Micha Logan make a computer game with Scratch software during his game design class at Bate Middle School (Danville Ind.). In Logan's game, Jurassic Cat, the gamer takes on the role of a cat that has been transported back in time and has to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 7, 2011]]> image-id:300 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Maritah Brewer creates on a gravity-style game during Scott Walker's game design class at Bate Middle School (Danville Ind.). Her older brother's involvement with computer programming inspired her to take the class. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 7, 2011]]> image-id:299 <![CDATA[Financial services teacher Kristy Burberry helps senior Kristyn Densmorewith with an adding machine at Menifee County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2011]]> image-id:298 <![CDATA[Menifee County Elementary School 4th-grade student Brian Olinde deposits the contents of his money jar at the Wildcat Exchange bank in Menifee County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2011]]> image-id:297 <![CDATA[Students from Menifee County Elementary School visit the Wildcat Exchange bank at the high school. Elementary students who wish to use the bank (most use it for deposits) are brought to the high school once a week. Middle school students may visit the bank during their lunch periods. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2011]]> image-id:296 <![CDATA[Seniors Abby Smith and Kelsey Becraft enter payroll deductions during Kristy Burberry's Finacial Services class at Menifee County High School. Part of the class includes running the school's bank, the Wildcat Exchange. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2011]]> image-id:295 <![CDATA[Senior Jarrod Fugate records transactions from the teller station during Kristy Burberry's Financial Services class at Menifee County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Oct. 3, 2011]]> image-id:294 <![CDATA[Locust Trace AgriScience Farm (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2011]]> image-id:292 <![CDATA[Lafayette High School (Fayette County) senior Camila Modica holds Brody while Dr. Lynne McMaine examines his ears at Locust Trace Veterinary Clinic. The full-service clinic, staffed by experienced veterinarians and technicians, provides Locust Trace AgriScience Farm students an oppurtunity to observe and assist. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2011]]> image-id:291 <![CDATA[Henry Clay High School (Fayette County) senior Daniel Silver drives a tractor through a wood-staked course at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm (Fayette County). Silver said he had driven a riding lawn mower before, but never a tractor. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2011]]> image-id:290 <![CDATA[Woodford County High School senior Kandice Beglau and Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) senior Chestanna Poe peer into a chick cage at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm (Fayette County). Both students are interested in studing veterinary science in college. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2011]]> image-id:289 <![CDATA[Environmental science teacher Larry Butler helps Lafayette High School (Fayette County) sophomore Malik Johnson water Golden Sebright chickens at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2011]]> image-id:288 <![CDATA[Henry Clay High School (Fayette County) sophomore Dustin Wilson attempts to get a Salmon-crested cockatoo to sit on his hand at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm (Fayette County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 28, 2011]]> image-id:287 <![CDATA[Hope Myatt uses the whole brain teaching method, or power teaching, by having her students use physical activity while learning the stages of magma and lava at Monroe County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2011]]> image-id:286 <![CDATA[Math intervention specialist JP Poland helps 6th-grade student Dominick Lewis with long division at Monroe County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2011]]> image-id:285 <![CDATA[Tara Copas helps 6th-grade students Hunter Hale and Olivia Gentry create ecosystem books at Monroe County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 13, 2011]]> image-id:284 <![CDATA[Retired teachers Cynthia Farris and Keith Watkins monitor students using the CompassLearning software in the strategies lab at North Middle School (Henderson County). The lab is an intervention class for mathematics and reading. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 9, 2011]]> image-id:282 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Walter Zeron practices Japanese using the Rosetta Stone program at North Middle School (Henderson County). Students at the school choose what language they want to learn from more than 20 options. The most popular are Spanish and French. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 9, 2011]]> image-id:281 <![CDATA[Kim Collins works with seventh-grade students Dalton Jewell, Brianna Scott, Karah Hay and Debra Anderson in the Read 180 class at North Middle School (Henderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 9, 2011]]> image-id:280 <![CDATA[Nan Ternes shares with her 8th-grade language arts class stories from kindergarten students who where evacuated from their New York City school during 9/11 on the 10th anniversary of the events at the North Middle School (Henderson County).]]> image-id:279 <![CDATA[Crystal Weber helps her 7th-grade mathematics students with an assignment about number properties at North Middle School (Henderson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 9, 2011]]> image-id:278 <![CDATA[Junior Newell Hicks uses an iPad to compute his ecological footprint during Sandra Adams' advanced biology class at Woodford County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 16, 2011]]> image-id:277 <![CDATA[Junior Aaron Mitchell takes an iPad out of a storage cart to use during Sandra Adams' advanced biology class at Woodford County High School.]]> image-id:276 <![CDATA[Sandra Adams leads student assignments with an iPad during her advanced biology class at Woodford County High School. Her iPad case has a built in hand strap so she can walk around the class easily holding it. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 16, 2011]]> image-id:275 <![CDATA[Maura Broderson compares her answers to a test she took earlier in the week using an iPad in Sandra Adams' advanced biology class at Woodford County High School. The class had 6 items on the daily agenda and using the iPads, students could work at their own pace. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 16, 2011]]> image-id:274 <![CDATA[Ashley Phillips watches an interview of Colin Beavan, the No Impact Man, on an iPad during Sandra Adams' advanced biology class at Woodford County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 16, 2011]]> image-id:273 <![CDATA[Jordawn Jones uses an iPad during Sandra Adams' advanced biology class at Woodford County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 16, 2011]]> image-id:272 <![CDATA[Ken Osbourne helps juniors Brandon Finley and Dakota Hunt during his physical science class at Sheldon Clark High School (Martin County). At left, teacher Jeff Norman conducts a peer walk-through. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2011]]> image-id:271 <![CDATA[Sophomores Layla Cantrell and Hope Maynard help each other during Bobby Allen's honors geometry class at Sheldon Clark High School (Martin County) Sept. 7, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:270 <![CDATA[Mandy Lawson's AP English class forms a circle to discuss ]]> image-id:269 <![CDATA[Language arts teachers Mandy Lawson, pictured, and Megan Mooney-Evans sponsor an after-school book club that has become very popular at Sheldon Clark High School (Martin County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 7, 2011]]> image-id:268 <![CDATA[The Family Resource and Youth Services Coalition of Kentucky has put out a cookbook celebrating their 20-year anniversary. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 1, 2011]]> image-id:267 <![CDATA[Estill County Middle School Youth Services Center director Michael Flynn talks with students interested in joining the student council. Flynn also serves as the student council advisor. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 1, 2011]]> image-id:266 <![CDATA[Tanah Chandler, Brent Wainscott, Shaun Blackwell, McKinley Meek and Olivia Snowden look at books at Estill County Middle School. Four times a year the school's FRYSC and Reading is Fundamental partner to offer free books to all of the students at the school. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 1, 2011]]> image-id:265 <![CDATA[Eighth-grade student Sarah Barnes holds a display she made about being a surgical technologist at Estill County Middle School. FRYSC director Michael Flynn helps keep students focused on college and careers with billboards and displays. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 1, 2011]]> image-id:264 <![CDATA[Donnie Wilkerson talks to his 5th-grade history class at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 2, 2011]]> image-id:263 <![CDATA[Donnie Wilkerson, a teacher at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County), was named Kentucky History Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Historical Society. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 2, 2011]]> image-id:262 <![CDATA[Donnie Wilkerson, pretending to be a member of the press, asks a group of students, acting as an Inuit family, questions about Inuit life as part of a lesson about American Indian cultural regions during his 5th-grade history class at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County). Wilkerson has many similar costumes that he wears throughout the school year. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 2, 2011]]> image-id:261 <![CDATA[Jayln Loy laughs while listening to her classmates act as an Inuit family during Donnie Wilkerson's 5th-grade history class at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County). Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 2, 2011]]> image-id:260 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Hank Woodruff, Ben Sapp, Alyssa Deel and Alexis Jackson prepare to answer questions as an Inuit family during Donnie Wilkerson's history class at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County). A photograph of an Inuit hut is projected behind the students. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 2, 2011]]> image-id:259 <![CDATA[Freshman Sue Cook gives a speech about freshman Malik Robinson during Steve Meadows Speech 1 class at Danville High School (Danville Ind.) Aug. 16, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:258 <![CDATA[Steve Meadows applauds a student's speech during his Speech 1 class at Danville High School (Danville Ind.) Aug. 16, 2011. For the first speech of the class students were to give an informative speech about one of their classmates. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:257 <![CDATA[Jordan Perry, right, gives a speech about McKenzie Carpenter, left, during Steve Meadows Speech 1 class at Danville High School (Danville Ind.) Aug. 16, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:256 <![CDATA[Sophomore Tiara Brand, right, gives an informative speech about freshman Mason Stamm, left, for her first speech of the year during Steve Meadows Speech 1 class at Danville High School (Danville Ind.) Aug. 16, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:255 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Chase Robinson plays Just Dance 2 as a reward for a pedometer step challenge at Manchester Elementary School (Clay County). He said since having the pedometer he has tried to be more active in his daily activities. He ended the challenge with 500,000 total steps. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 3, 2011]]> image-id:254 <![CDATA[Alexus Tuttle and LaKala McKissic play Just Dance 2 on the Wii as a reward for a pedometer step challenge at Manchester Elementary School (Clay County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 3, 2011]]> image-id:253 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Justus Henson plays Just Dance 2 on the Wii as a reward for his class having the most steps in a pedometer challenge at Manchester Elementary School (Clay County). He had the most steps in his class with roughly 780,000 steps – the approximate distance from the easternmost point of Kentucky to the westernmost near the Mississippi River. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 3, 2011]]> image-id:252 <![CDATA[Daniel Rogers, Spencer Dubbels and Carley Hoskins display their pedometers at Manchester Elementary School (Clay County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 3, 2011]]> image-id:251 <![CDATA[Students play Michael Jackson: The Experience on the Wii at Manchester Elementary School (Clay County). The class played the game as a reward for having walked the most steps during a pedometer-recorded walking challenge. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 3, 2011]]> image-id:250 <![CDATA[Tates Creek High School (Fayette County) junior Maurice Marshall hands out 3D-glasses for the 4D SpongeBob Squarepants ride at the Louisville Zoo. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 21, 2011]]> image-id:249 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Blind student Kenton Smith washes windows in the Gorilla Forest Sanctuary at the Louisville Zoo. He said he likes helping people at the zoo, and this opportunity also showed him that he can be successful at the interview process. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 21, 2011]]> image-id:248 <![CDATA[Senior Deandre Smith sweeps the floor of the Gorilla Forest Sanctuary at the Louisville Zoo. Smith, who previously worked at Six Flags over Kentucky Kingdom in a similar partnership with KSB, said he values the experience he has gained in these jobs because it will help him in the future. He one day hopes to own and operate his own clothing store. Smith attends Pleasure Ridge Park High School (Jefferson County) and participates in KSB’s Summer Enrichment Program. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 21, 2011]]> image-id:247 <![CDATA[Ashley Johnson, a senior at Greenup County High School, prices plush polar bears animals in the gift shop at the Louisville Zoo. Johnson participates in KSB’s Summer Enrichment Program. She enjoyed her work assignment, especially because the gift shop is air-conditioned. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 21, 2011]]> image-id:246 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Blind senior Ambre Cooper helps Vivica Bonner, 4, feed a giraffe at the Louisville Zoo. Copper, who would like to study veterinary medicine after she graduates, was helping with the public feeding of the giraffes. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 21, 2011]]> image-id:245 <![CDATA[Teachers at the Next Generation Academy watch professional dancer Mariya Tarakanova perform a flamenco dance at Bowen Elementary School (Jefferson County). Learning about flamenco was part of integrating the Spanish language with arts at the academy for elementary teachers. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 22, 2011]]> image-id:244 <![CDATA[Jeffersontown Elementary School (Jefferson County) teacher Pedro Toledo and Fairdale Elementary School (Jefferson County) teacher Mariano Polo learn to flamenco during the Next Generation Academy at Bowen Elementary School (Jefferson County). Both are Spanish teachers at their schools. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 22, 2011]]> image-id:243 <![CDATA[Dunn Elementary School (Jefferson County) Spanish teacher Nadine Jacobsen, right, watches instructor Graciela Perrone while learning to flamenco during the Next Generation Academy at Bowen Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 22, 2011]]> image-id:242 <![CDATA[Chinese dance instructor Shuling Fister leads a classroom of teachers in the Chinese Yangge Dance during the Next Generation Academy at Bowen Elementary School (Jefferson County). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 22, 2011]]> image-id:241 <![CDATA[Lydia Childress, North Middletown Elementary School (Bourbon County) arts and humanities teacher, learns a Chinese folk dance during the Next Generation Academy at Bowen Elementary School (Jefferson County). Teachers were learning to integrate Chinese and Spanish with the arts. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 22, 2011]]> image-id:240 <![CDATA[Teachers at the Next Generation Academy at Bowen Elementary School (Jefferson County) listen to Jana Hickey, Jefferson County e-learning specialist, teach them how to use JCPS Online to connect with each other. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 22, 2011]]> image-id:239 <![CDATA[Julia King, a 2nd-grade student at Maxwell Elementary School (Fayette County), looks up a book for summer reading using the Find A Book, Kentucky website at the Jessamine County Public Library. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2011]]> image-id:238 <![CDATA[Wilmore Elementary School (Jessamine County) 3rd-grade student Lukas Keathley looks up books for summer reading at the Jessamine County Public Library. He is a fan of the Judy Moody and Stink books. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2011]]> image-id:237 <![CDATA[Nate Stombaugh, a 5th-grade student at Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School (Jessamine County), reads to his younger brother, Andy, at the Jessamine County Public Library. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2011]]> image-id:236 <![CDATA[Nicholasville Elementary School (Jessamine County) 4th-grade student Rachel Archer turns in a summer reading log to Cathy Sallee at the Jessamine County Public Library. Archer enjoys reading books by Roald Dahl, including The Witches and James and the Giant Peach. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2011]]> image-id:235 <![CDATA[Second-grade student David Harrison enjoys summer reading at the Jessamine County Public Library. He recently won an award for reading 149 books in a week, the most in his class at Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School (Jessamine County). Photo by Amy Wallot, June 15, 2011]]> image-id:234 <![CDATA[Associate Commissioner Felicia Cumings Smith, center, talks with Hunter Hills Elementary School (Laurel County) teachers Trish Brittain and Jon Oliver during the Next Generation Academy in Lexington. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2011]]> image-id:223 <![CDATA[Berea Middle and High School (Berea Independent) teacher Kim Clouse, left, and F.T. Burns Middle School (Daviess County) teachers Jennifer Green and Robyn Hetman work on a lesson plan during the Next Generation Academy in Lexington. Their plan included comparing and contrasting two Native American cultures using arts and artifacts to determine which one was from the Kentucky area. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2011]]> image-id:222 <![CDATA[Iroquois High School (Jefferson County) freshman English teacher Kimberly Johnson works on a character map during the Next Generation Academy in Lexington. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2011]]> image-id:221 <![CDATA[Flemingsburg Elementary School (Fleming County) teacher Lindsey Moran, left, and Garden Springs Elementary School teacher Lanora Long dance the Sir Roger de Coverley during the Next Generation Academy in Lexington June 16, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:220 <![CDATA[Kenton County gifted instructor Penny Thomas and Georgetown Middle School (Scott County) teacher Brittany Leach learn the Sir Roger de Coverley dance during the Next Generation Academy in Lexington. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2011]]> image-id:219 <![CDATA[Next Generation Academy instructor Jane Dewey discusses the layout of colonial theaters and where different classes would sit during a presentation in Lexington. Photo by Amy Wallot, June 16, 2011]]> image-id:218 <![CDATA[Commonwealth Middle College Principal Donna Wear, right, leads a senior meeting to talk about expectations and the schedule for finals week. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:217 <![CDATA[Evan Burrow tries on his cap and gown upon receiving them at Commonwealth Middle College. His home school is Heath High School (McCracken County). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:216 <![CDATA[Commonwealth Middle College juniors Hannah Troutman, Rebecca Fountain and Loren Hale read entertainment news during lunch in the common area of West Kentucky Community and Technical College. Students can have lunch in the common area or a separate area only for the high school students. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:215 <![CDATA[Four seniors graduated from Commonwealth Middle College this year with a diploma and an associate degree: Ali Greer, left, Jeremy Sneed, Jackie Lile and Katie Young (not pictured). All four plan on attending college in the fall. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:214 <![CDATA[Adjunct professor Bernice Belts teaches the Foundations of Learning class at Commonwealth Middle College on the campus of West Kentucky Community and Technical College. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:213 <![CDATA[Junior Joelle Middleman works on a PowerPoint presentation during computer class at Commonwealth Middle College. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:212 <![CDATA[Students in Carol Baltimore’s physics class prepare for final exams at Commonwealth Middle College. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:211 <![CDATA[Senior Sarah Merges works on an assignment during Barbara McGinty’s senior English class at Commonwealth Middle College. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 29, 2011]]> image-id:210 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Miranda Clark, right, and Abby Applegate pull their freshly made ice cream out of ice buckets at the Mobile Science Activity Center at Tollesboro Elementary School (Lewis County). Students collected data from the activity and later made graphs to illustrate their findings. Photo by Amy Wallot; May 24, 2011]]> image-id:209 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Caleb Salvia and Heather Langworthy shake their bags to mix ingredients for homemade ice cream in the Mobile Science Activity Center at Tollesboro Elementary School (Lewis County). Students had to shake their buckets for seven minutes to get their ice cream to freeze. Photo by Amy Wallot; May 24, 2011]]> image-id:208 <![CDATA[Mobile Science Activity Center program coordinator Jason Hodge instructs students on the ice cream making process before they begin the activity at Tollesboro Elementary School (Lewis County) May 24, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:207 <![CDATA[The Mobile Science Activity Center visits Tollesboro Elementary School (Lewis County). All activities in the center are aligned to core content. Photo by Amy Wallot; May 24, 2011]]> image-id:206 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Sarah Henderson eats homemade chocolate ice cream she made in the Mobile Science Activity Center at Tollesboro Elementary School (Lewis County). The ice cream was “Good!” she said. Photo by Amy Wallot; May 24, 2011]]> image-id:205 <![CDATA[Students in Chasity McGowan's 4th-grade class eat their homemade ice cream at Tollesboro Elementary School (Lewis County). Students made the ice cream in the Mobile Science Activity Center. Photo by Amy Wallot; May 24, 2011]]> image-id:204 <![CDATA[Rockcastle County superintendent Larry Hammond recieved the 2011 F.I. Dupree OUtstanding Superintendent Award, presented by the Kentucky School Boards Association. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:203 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade social studies teacher Tracy Gabbard, left, jokes with superintendent Larry Hammond during a faculty against students babsketball game at Rockcastle County Middle School May 12, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:202 <![CDATA[Superintendent Larry Hammond watches faculty members play a basketball game against students at Rockcastle County Middle School May 12, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:201 <![CDATA[Rockcastle County superintendent Larry Hammond, speaks with director of pupil personnel Rebecca Isaacs at the district office May 12, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:200 <![CDATA[LaRue County High School freshman Lorren Newby works on her school-provided laptop at home. Through the school’s 1:1 laptop initiative students are assigned a laptop for the duration of the school year. Photo by Amy Wallot; March 2011]]> image-id:199 <![CDATA[LaRue County High School sophomore Jackson Venegas and his younger brother Ezekiel work on homework. The school’s 1:1 laptop initiative allows students to take home their laptops. Photo by Amy Wallot; March 2011]]> image-id:198 <![CDATA[LaRue County High School sophomore Jackson Venegas works on his homework in his bedroom while his sister Isabella looks on. The school’s 1:1 laptop initiative allows students to take home their laptops. LaRue County High School is one of several schools in the state offering the use of a laptop to all students. Photo by Amy Wallot; March 2011]]> image-id:197 <![CDATA[Students use laptops to complete work during Jorge Venegas’ Spanish II class at LaRue County High School. All students at the school are given a laptop to use throughout the school year. Photo by Amy Wallot; March 2011]]> image-id:196 <![CDATA[Junior Nick Devers works the laptop help desk at LaRue County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot; March 2011]]> image-id:195 <![CDATA[Freshman Haley Thomas draws a pastel painting of “a house in the middle of nowhere” during Monique Hanna’s Art I class at LaRue County High School. Thomas used her laptop to find a picture from which to model her drawing. Photo by Amy Wallot; March 2011]]> image-id:194 <![CDATA[An iPad is used during class at Harrison County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:193 <![CDATA[Students use iPods and laptops to research the Empire State building during Amanda Caudill’s class at Harrison County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:192 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Malcom Walker uses an iPod touch to gather information for an oral presentation on mushrooms during Sarah Moll’s science class at Harrison County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:191 <![CDATA[Science teacher Sarah Moll helps 7th-grade students Sabrina Kemplin and Madison Wells use an iPod Touch to research mushrooms at Harrison County Middle School. At right is student Julianne Dennis. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:190 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Jacob Brueggen uses an iPod Touch to research mushrooms during Sarah Moll’s science class at Harrison County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:189 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade student Foster Burden uses an iPad to record data with partners Madison King and Jared Mueller during an experiment in Leann Brannock’s class at Harrison County Middle School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:188 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Brittany Dixon leaves comments on other students’ blog posts during Jennifer Martin’s class at Waco Elementary School (Madison County). Students in the class post their writing pieces as blog posts, and other students can comment on them. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:187 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Lorena Webb helps 3rd-grade student Savannah Blanton with her PowerPoint about the Liberty Bell at Waco Elementary School (Madison County). The students were learning how to use PowerPoint by creating a presentation about a national monument. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:186 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Natalie Fox and Brianna Caldwell work on a PowerPoint about the Alamo at Waco Elementary School (Madison County). The students routinely use technology in class. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:185 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Madison Livingston and Bethany Gray use a student response system during Beth Conner’s mathematics class at Waco Elementary School (Madison County). The system gives Conner instant responses to see what concepts the class is mastering and on which it needs addition instruction. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:184 <![CDATA[Melissa Henson helps 7th-grade student Dustin Allen with a peer review of an editorial writing piece at Jackson City School (Jackson Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:183 <![CDATA[Second-grade students Micah Henson and Rachel Griffith complete biography organizers during Cheri Arrowood's class at Jackson City School (Jackson Ind.) Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:182 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Ishaan Choch writes a blog post about his recent trip to India during Cheri Arrowood's class at Jackson City School (Jackson Ind.). The writing Program Review includes communications for the 21st century. Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:181 <![CDATA[Language arts teacher Melissa Henson, center, discusses Program Reviews with (from left) Principal Jim Yount, English and journalism teacher Jessica Bowling, primary teacher Cheri Arrowood, and high school mathematics teacher Jeff Coots at Jackson City School (Jackson Ind.). Photo by Amy Wallot, April 2011]]> image-id:180 <![CDATA[The gymnasium floor at Richardsville Elementary School (Warren County) is made from bamboo. The parquet floor from the old gymnasium was used in the free-throw lane area. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2011]]> image-id:179 <![CDATA[Students at Richardsville Elementary School (Warren County) participate in an energy-free lunch. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2011]]> image-id:178 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Elizabeth Wilson washes her hands at Richardsville Elementary School (Warren County). The sink uses solar panels to work. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2011]]> image-id:177 <![CDATA[Wall displays around Richardsville Elementary School (Warren County) inform about energy conservation and recycling. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2011]]> image-id:176 <![CDATA[A hallway display shows what the insulated concrete form walls used at Richardsville Elementary School (Warren County) look like. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2011]]> image-id:175 <![CDATA[Library media specialist Barry Sanders checks out a book for 2nd-grade student Jacob Kubeny at Richardsville Elementary School (Warren County). The library is filled with natural light. Photo by Amy Wallot, March 2011]]> image-id:174 <![CDATA[Teacher Duke Boles leads an experiment on DNA replication during a biology class at Carroll County High School. Boles has used his Laying the Foundation training to make labs more relevant and to improve open-response answers in his classes. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:173 <![CDATA[Sophomore Nolan DeLoach measures an angle during an experiment in Janell Evans’ Pre-AP Geometry class at Carroll County High School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:172 <![CDATA[Teacher Janell Evans helps freshman Devon Canine with an assignment at Carroll County High School. Students were measuring the height of tall objects outside using trigonometry. The lesson was to prepare students for a Laying the Foundation lesson that was more in-depth. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:171 <![CDATA[Math teacher Bobbi Jo Taylor assists freshman Cori Green, junior Danielle Wheeler and sophomore Seth Harmon during her Algebra II class at Carroll County High School. Taylor has incorporated what she learned through Laying the Foundation training, including more rigorous instruction, into all of her classes. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:170 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Hunter Peck, right, and Tyler Hunter program their robot during Bill Kunnecke's Introduction to Mobile robotics class at North Marshall Middle School (Marshall County) Feb. 23, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:169 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade student Jordan Williams looks for a part for his robot during Bill Kunnecke's Introduction to Mobile Robotics class at North Marshall Middle School (Marshall County) Feb. 23, 2011. Each robot kit comes with 400 parts that the students inventory at the end of the semester. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:168 <![CDATA[Seventh-grade students Darren Cornwell and Wally Schmidt look over the advanced robots the after-school robotics team built at North Marshall Middle School (Marshall County) Feb. 23, 2011. Both students are members of the team.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:167 <![CDATA[Sixth-grade students Hayden Miles, Jordan Williams and Brooklynn Jessup watch as Sarah Armstrong attempts to get her robot through a course during Bill Kunnecke's Introduction to Mobile Robotics class at North Marshall Middle School (Marshall County) Feb. 23, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:166 <![CDATA[Bill Kunnecke instructs how to make variations to the robot's program during his Introduction to Mobile Robotics class at North Marshall Middle School (Marshall County) Feb. 23, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:165 <![CDATA[Counselor Tamra Parker reviews career suggestions as part of their ILPs with sixth-grade students Kenny Lannom and Leslie Jackson at Fulton Elementary School (Fulton County) Feb. 22, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:164 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Abigail Bittenbender demonstrates angry body language during Christa Taylor's class at Fulton Elementary School (Fulton County) Feb. 22, 2011. Counselor Tamra Parker, pictured, was teaching the class a lesson about self-control. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:163 <![CDATA[Crittenden County Elementary School counselor Trudy Bramblett talks with second-grade students Lily Atchison, Lera Adams, Felonie Little and Jalaine Noel on the floor of her office Feb. 23, 2011. Atchison is holding the I Care Cat puppet that Bramblett uses with students to help them open up and express themselves. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:162 <![CDATA[School counselor Trudy Bramblett talks with fifth-grade student Thomas Jacobs while visiting Tammy Brantley's class at Feb. 23, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:161 <![CDATA[Counselor Trudy Bramblett, right, meets with Murray State University 4th-grade student teacher Sara Collins, left, and 4th-grade teacher Tiffany DeBoe at Crittenden County Elementary School Feb. 23, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:160 <![CDATA[Carr Creek Elementary School (Knott County) FRYSC Director Debbie Joseph Smith pushes kindergarten student Kailey Combs on a swing during recess Feb. 17, 2011. The swings are part of the new school playground for which the school's FRYSC raised money. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:159 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Jacob Williams reads with ]]> image-id:158 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Jeanette Smith leans her head on ]]> image-id:157 <![CDATA[Children enjoy an unusually warm day during recess at Carr Creek Elementary School (Knott County) Feb. 17, 2011. The school's FRYSC raised money for the new playground. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:156 <![CDATA[Knox County Director of Districtwide Programs Melissa Evans talks with Superintendent Walter Hulett about an upcoming professional development opportunity Feb. 8, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:155 <![CDATA[Knox County Director of Districtwide Programs Melissa Evans talks with 6th-grade teacher Kim Duncan during a professional learning community meeting of 5th- and 6th-grade teachers at Jesse D. Lay Elementary School (Knox County) Feb. 8, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:154 <![CDATA[Knox County Director of Districtwide Programs Melissa Evans, center, meets with the 5th- and 6th-grade professional learning community at Jesse D. Lay Elementary School (Knox County) Feb. 8, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:153 <![CDATA[Jenn Crase helps Cassady Crabtree during pre-algebra class at South Oldham Middle School (Oldham County) Feb. 7, 2011. Crase is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:152 <![CDATA[Jenn Crase teaches students how to find the slope between two points during her pre-algebra class at South Oldham Middle School (Oldham County) Feb. 7, 2011. Crase is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:151 <![CDATA[Language arts teacher Matt French, science teacher Theresa Murphy, social studies teacher Ron Adkisson and mathematics teacher Jenn Crase, all members of the 8th-grade Voyager teaching team, meet briefly before class at South Oldham Middle School (Oldham County) Feb. 7, 2011. Crase is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:150 <![CDATA[Mathematics intervention teacher Johnsie Tucker uses playing cards to help 3rd-grade students Ceely Farmer and Daniel Frantz with their mathematics skills at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. Sutton Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:149 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Alexis Westerfield reads during Cathy Midkiff's class at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. Sutton Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:148 <![CDATA[Cathy Midkiff talks with Bango Kelly, left, and Eli Daugherty during reading class at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. Sutton Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:147 <![CDATA[Science teacher Jaime Quattrocchi helps 4th-grade student Erin Lincoln measure the amount of chocolate chips she collected from a cookie at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. As part of their lesson about rocks, minerals and the Earth's resources, the students did a "Mining for Minerals" lab where they "mined" chocolate chips from cookies. Sutton Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:146 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Abby Kellum "mines" chocolate chips from a cookie at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. As part of their lesson about rocks, minerals and the Earth's resources, the students did a "Mining for Minerals" lab where they "mined" chocolate chips from cookies. Sutton Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:145 <![CDATA[Curriculum Specialist Leigh Ann Stewart works with a small group of 4th-grade students on reading comprehension test preparation at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:144 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Joshua Bailey works on an assignment about Rosa Parks during Jessica Lamirande’s language arts class at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:143 <![CDATA[Deborah Cathcart works with 5th-grade students Michael Carter, left, Wyatt Gray, center, Davion Radford, right, and Kolby Morris, far right, on identifying and correcting problem areas with their on-demand writing pieces at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:142 <![CDATA[Art teacher Gail Galyon keeps an eye on students' progress as they work on two- and three-dimensional collages at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:141 <![CDATA[First-grade student Phillip Cummings works with reading teacher Nancy DeCoursey at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:140 <![CDATA[Third-grade teacher Alyssa Hollimon helps students sort books they are reading into categories of the authors’ purpose, to inform or entertain, at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Students get to choose books to read based on their reading level and keep them in their personal book boxes. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:139 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Ziyana Killebrew looks to her teacher Lindsey Howell for help at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:138 <![CDATA[Curriculum facilitator Jamie Self asks a group of 4th- and 5th-grade students science questions during Fun Friday lunch at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. Students received an ice cream treat when they correctly answered a question. Sutton Elementary was named a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:137 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Savannah Helm, right, and Chloe Wood play Go Fish while working with mathematics intervention teacher Johnsie Tucker at Sutton Elementary School (Owensboro Independent) Feb. 4, 2011. Sutton Elementary was named a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:136 <![CDATA[Debbie Olp talks with 2nd-grade students Caroline Corbitt, left, Emilie Gray, center, and Corrine Cusich, right, about their favorite books at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:135 <![CDATA[Second-grade teacher Lauren Scott helps Jesse Powell with an assignment at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:134 <![CDATA[Jared Pogue and Jazzy Larkins hold up their letters they practiced writing during Sherry Covington's kindergarten class at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:133 <![CDATA[Teaching assistant Linda Humphries works with kindergarten student Gavin Floyd on counting at Lacy Elementary School (Christian County) Feb. 2, 2011. Lacy Elementary is a 2010 Distinguished Title I School. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:132 <![CDATA[Parents and community members enjoy a reception at Sedalia Elementary School (Graves County) during the school's Blue Ribbon School celebration Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:131 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Carley Dowdy proudly displays her school spirit at Sedalia Elementary School (Graves County) during the school's Blue Ribbon School celebration Jan. 6, 2011. Dowdy is the daughter of 4th-grade science teacher Keri Dowdy. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:130 <![CDATA[First-grade student Jayce Riley speaks during the Sedalia Elementary School's (Graves County) Blue Ribbon School celebration Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:129 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Benjamin Phillips entertains the gathering crowd at Sedalia Elementary School (Graves County) before the school’s Blue Ribbon School celebration Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:128 <![CDATA[Principal Robert Braden welcomes parents and community members to Sedalia Elementary School's (Graves County) Blue Ribbon School celebration Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallo]]> image-id:127 <![CDATA[Damon Boards competes in the Kentucky Braille Challenge Jan. 27, 2011. He was competing with the junior varsity team. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:126 <![CDATA[Brooke Berger checks her work during the Kentucky Braille Challenge Jan. 27, 2011. Berger was competing in the varsity category. At right is Kyle Smith. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:125 <![CDATA[Danielle Burton checks her work during the Kentucky Braille Challenge for students in grades K-12 who read and write Braille, sponsored and hosted by the Kentucky School for the Blind and the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville Jan. 27, 2011. She placed first in the varsity category. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:124 <![CDATA[Alex Stine competes in the freshman Braille spelling contest during the Kentucky Braille Challenge Jan. 27, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:123 <![CDATA[David Carnes smiles as his name is called during the opening ceremony of the Kentucky Braille Challenge Jan. 27, 2011. ]]> image-id:122 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Blind student Amiracle Foard stands and cheers as her name is called during the opening ceremony of the Kentucky Braille Challenge for students in grades K-12 who read and write Braille, hosted by the Kentucky School for the Blind and the American Printing House for the Blind Jan. 27, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:121 <![CDATA[Taryn Seif cheers during the opening ceremony of the Kentucky Braille Challenge for students in grades K-12 who read and write Braille Jan. 27, 2011. She was participating on the freshman team. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:120 <![CDATA[Members of the varsity team take the stage during the opening ceremony of the Kentucky Braille Challenge for students in grades K-12 who read and write Braille, sponsored and hosted by the Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB) and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in Louisville Jan. 27, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:119 <![CDATA[Twenhofel Middle School (Kenton County) 8th-grade student Jon Webster leads a group of students as they practice a dance to Shakira's]]> image-id:118 <![CDATA[Sarah Thomas, right, helps Woodland Middle School 8th-grade student Lauren New with her lines during a small group practice for a performance at Dixie Heights High School as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:117 <![CDATA[Connie Baynum, right, leads a practice for middle school students from Kenton County before a performance at Dixie Heights High School as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:116 <![CDATA[Turkey Foot Middle School (Kenton County) 8th-grade student Megan Heuker asks a question during practice for a performance at Dixie Heights High School as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:115 <![CDATA[Kenton County 8th-grade students Nicole Ziege, left, Lauren New, center, and Jackie Auman practice for a performance at Dixie Heights High School (Kenton County) as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:114 <![CDATA[Woodland Middle School (Kenton County) 6th-grade student Mallory Mitchell reads her lines from the stage during practice for a performance at Dixie Heights High School as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:113 <![CDATA[Woodland Middle School (Kenton County) 8th-grade students Matt Tarka and Jackie Auman research bullying stats to prepare for their roles as guidance counselorsfor a performance at Dixie Heights High School as part of the ASCENT Arts program Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:112 <![CDATA[Charlotte Webb helps 5th-grade student Brianna Partin with a written response question from the book ]]> image-id:111 <![CDATA[Charlotte Webb works with students on their reading skills during the Academy, an after-school program at Middlesboro Intermediate School (Middlesboro Independent) Jan. 19, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:110 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student J'Oavean Kelly raises his hand to answer a question about the book ]]> image-id:109 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Jared Salyers reads ]]> image-id:108 <![CDATA[Students carry a Blue Ribbon School to the flag pole at William H. Natcher Elementary School (Cloverport Independent) after a Blue Ribbon School celebration Dec. 9, 2010.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:107 <![CDATA[Superintendent John Millay asked "Who's a Blue Ribbon School?" during William H. Natcher Elementary School's (Cloverport Independent) Blue Ribbon School celebration Dec. 9, 2010. "We are!" yelled back 1st-grade student Kirsten Smith.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:106 <![CDATA[Debbie Smith asks for a show of hands during her 2nd/3rd-grade class at William H. Natcher Elementary School (Cloverport Independent) Dec. 9, 2010.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:105 <![CDATA[Surrounded by students Teah Burden, left, Kassidy Weedman, right, and Makayla Johnson, far right, Diane Tindle reads "A Christmas Carol" from an iPad to her 4th-grade class at William H. Natcher Elementary School's (Cloverport Independent) Blue Ribbon School celebration Dec. 9, 2010. The story was followed-up with a worksheet and a written response for the students to complete.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:104 <![CDATA[Dance educator Harlina Churn-Diallo teaches 4th-grade students during class at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:103 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Angelica Rios hugs drama teacher Greylyn Gregory at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011. Rios, who is interested in drama and dance, was excited about a trip she will be taking to New York City. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:102 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade students Johara Abdullahi, left, and Maryan Kasim sing and clap during a rehearsal for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day performance at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:101 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Antonia Seabrooks, center, practices for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011. Her favorite performing arts to participate in is instrumental music. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:100 <![CDATA[Kindergarten student Isaiah Hayes counts the days of school, all the way up to 87, with the rest of Sheila Riley's class at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:99 <![CDATA[Talmage Collins' 5th-grade class reads out loud together his morning message for the class at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:98 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade students Makyla Gore, left, and Adia Arnold shake hands and tell each other "Good morning. I'm glad you are here today," during Talmage Collins' class at Lincoln Elementary School (Jefferson County) Jan. 14, 2011.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:97 <![CDATA[Students from Buckhorn Elementary School (Perry County) work through various hand-on stations at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:96 <![CDATA[Buckhorn Elementary School (Perry County)student Kameron Harbold looks over his worksheet while heading to the next hands-on station at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:95 <![CDATA[Buckhorn Elementary School (Perry County) 4th-grade student Claudia Abner reaches out to touch Jupiter in a 3-D simulation of the planets at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:94 <![CDATA[Buckhorn Elementary School (Perry County) 4th-grade student Ashley Smith laughs as her classmate Laura Abner takes a spin on the momentum machine at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:93 <![CDATA[Tom Cravens, director of the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard, has his blood pressure taken from students assigned to the medical team of the space station Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:92 <![CDATA[Hayes Lewis Elementary School (Leslie County) 6th-grade student Davida Stidham uses a robotic arm in the space station at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:91 <![CDATA[Hayes Lewis Elementary School (Leslie County) 6th-grade student Tanner Welch works in the space station at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:90 <![CDATA[Hayes Lewis Elementary School (Leslie County) 5th-grade student Blake Stidham puts on a lab coat before taking off and landing at the space station at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:89 <![CDATA[Hayes Lewis Elementary School (Leslie County) 6th-grade students Austin Feltner, left, and Jeremiah Caldwell listen to their flight plans in the briefing room at the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky in Hazard Dec. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:88 <![CDATA[Professional Learning Community group leaders meet at Leslie County High School Jan. 5, 2011. The group leaders meet every month or so. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:87 <![CDATA[Sophomores Kayla Bowling, center, and Shay Roark work together on math problems during Renee Stidham's class at Leslie County High School Jan. 5, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:86 <![CDATA[Brittany Hensley, left, helps sophomore Paige Shepherd with an Algebra II problem at Leslie County High School Jan. 5, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:85 <![CDATA[Education recovery leader Susan Brock, left, counselor Mary Feltner, center, and Educational Recovery Specialist BJ Martin meet with school leaders at Leslie County High School Jan. 5, 2011. Behind them, data walls help track student progress on assessment. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:84 <![CDATA[Resource teacher Crystal Farler works a geometry out on a SMART board with her students' help at Leslie County High School Jan. 5, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:83 <![CDATA[Junior Alex King and the rest of Brittany Brammeier's Advanced Animal Science class do a digestion dance to help remember parts of the digestive system at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:82 <![CDATA[Agriculture teacher Coye Elliott, left, looks over poinsettias with seniors Drew Rodgers and Ruth Wooten at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. They sold 600 poinsettias during the holidays and saved some to grow into much larger plants for next year. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:81 <![CDATA[Senior Pierce Crider scoops tilapia out of a tank at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Crider, a fisherman, is interested in in learning about the fish. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:80 <![CDATA[Instructor O.P. McCubbins and sophomore Bret Montgomery clean bedding material from Swiffer, an Angora rabbit, at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:79 <![CDATA[Sophomore Erin McIntyre holds Oreo at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:78 <![CDATA[Senior Jessica Evans, left, and junior Kelsey Morris take rabbits Otis and Fluffy out of their pens at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:77 <![CDATA[Riley licks junior Elizabeth Skinner during Brittany Brammeier's Advanced Animal Science class at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. Riley, wearing an FFA shirt Brammeier made, belongs to the teacher and comes to class every day. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:76 <![CDATA[Senior Ross Buchanan, left, junior Cole Bell, center, and seniors Tony Cornwell, right, and Cody Copeland, far right, look over the quail cage they help to build at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. The school will soon be receiving 300 quail eggs to hatch and raise. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:75 <![CDATA[Brittany Brammeier talks with her Advanced Animal Science class about the digestive system of a pig at Lone Oak High School (McCracken County) Jan. 7, 2011. The class was preparing for a pig dissection. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:74 <![CDATA[Teacher Amy Pavona plays Connect Four with 4th-grade student D'Onta Lane during an indoor recess at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. Looking on, Brennan Aulds, left, Kendrick Curry, center, and Drew Hensley realize D'Onta is going to win the game. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:73 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Wesley Hobbs works with teacher Kathy Newcomb in a small group using mathematics manipulatives at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:72 <![CDATA[Carma Mullkin works with 3rd-grade students on a money mathematics game at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:71 <![CDATA[Art instructor Rachel Losch slides 2nd-grade student Redden Bugg into the classroom's replica of the Sistine Chapel at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. Once inside, he can use paint pens to draw on the ceiling. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:70 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Brooklyn Fox draws on the ceiling of art teacher Rachel Losch's replica of the Sistine Chapel at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:69 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Vionte' Miles cuts a shape for a collage during Rachel Losch's art class at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. The students learned about Pablo Picasso and then were replicating his painting ]]> image-id:68 <![CDATA[Art teacher Rachel Losch talks about the shape of a lap dulcimer to her class before they worked on a collage inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Three Musicians" at Dixie Elementary Magnet School (Fayette County) Jan. 6, 2011. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:67 <![CDATA[Sophomores Sibi Rajendran, left, and Zack Banta create a model simulation of a bacteria heater and cooler during Mark Harrell's Principles of Engineering class at the Franklin County Career and Technical Center Dec. 1, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:66 <![CDATA[Senior Chris Holder uses a cutting torch while practicing for state certification during Randy Shewmaker's class at the Franklin County Career and Technical Center Dec. 1, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:65 <![CDATA[Sophomore Tevon Clay vertical-up welds during Randy Shewmaker's class at the Franklin County Career and Technical Center Dec. 1, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:64 <![CDATA[Junior Allison Parrent measures a piece of wood to use as a fin on her rocket during Mark Harrell's Introduction to Engineering Design class at the Franklin County Career and Technical Center Dec. 1, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:63 <![CDATA[Teacher Mark Harrell, left, helps freshman Thomas Stone, center, and Chris Talley choose pieces for their rockets during Introduction to Engineering Design at the Franklin County Career and Technical Center Dec. 1, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:62 <![CDATA[Preschool teacher Unis Broyles tends to a student's hurt finger during recess at Oak Grove Elementary School (Whitley County) Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:61 <![CDATA[Maddox Doan, Terra Brown and Lacey Woods mimic preschool teacher Unis Broyles during gym class at class at Oak Grove Elementary School Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:60 <![CDATA[Unis Broyles leads her preschool class in movement at Oak Grove Elementary School (Whitley County) Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:59 <![CDATA[Megan Gibbs catches a bag with a vowel sound on it tossed by her preschool teacher Unis Broyles during class at Oak Grove Elementary School (Whitley County) Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:58 <![CDATA[Claire Price shows her teacher Cathy Chaffman her drawing of her favorite store during preschool class at Whitley County Central Primary School Sept. 21, 2010. The class had just started a three-week unit on stores. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:57 <![CDATA[Aaron Childress and Clinton Davis read together during Cathy Chaffman's preschool class at Whitley County Central Primary School Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:56 <![CDATA[Cathy Chaffman plays a memory game with preschool students Stephanie Carr and Clinton Davis during class at Whitley County Central Primary School Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:55 <![CDATA[Stephanie Carr puts on a dress in the dramatic play center of Cathy Chaffman's preschool class at Whitley County Central Primary School Sept. 21, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:54 <![CDATA[Kathryn Winn Elementary School 2]]> image-id:53 <![CDATA[Kathryn Winn Elementary School 3]]> image-id:52 <![CDATA[Kathryn Winn Elementary School 1]]> image-id:51 <![CDATA[Grayson County High School senior Rachael Childress does data entry during her co-op at C & M Appraisals in Leitchfield Nov. 3, 2010. She is a DECA member and plans on studying business and marketing in college. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:50 <![CDATA[Marketing and business teacher Cynthia Smith talks to her retail marketing class about their business model presentations at Grayson County High School Nov. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:49 <![CDATA[Junior Kylee Gorby, left, and sophomore Katie Beeler role play a frozen yogurt business transaction during a presentation in Cynthia Smith's retail marketing class at Grayson County High School Nov. 3, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:48 <![CDATA[Marketing and business teacher Cynthia Smith's class at Grayson County High School Nov. 3, 2010.Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:47 <![CDATA[Western Kentucky University freshman Brittany Hall demonstrates a sign-making process as part of the Grayson County High School marketing classes' school-based enterprise Nov. 3, 2010. Hall, a DECA student for all four years of high school, plans on becoming a marketing teacher and is doing observation hours in Cynthia Smith's class at Grayson County High. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:46 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Kaleigh Oldham works on an assignment during Kim Hampton's class at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:45 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Amy Hampton helps Deven Soward and Hanna Morris with a spelling and vocabulary assignment at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:44 <![CDATA[Conner Fraley and Brittney Roara work together on spelling and vocabulary during Amy Hampton's 5th-grade class at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:43 <![CDATA[Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday speaks with kindergarten teacher Bridget Murphy at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:42 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Tammy Litteral raises her hand with an answer during Kim Hampton's class at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:41 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade student Destiny Bowman celebrates the announcement of a new computer lab for her school during its Blue Ribbon School ceremony at Ezel Elementary School (Morgan County) Oct. 25, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:40 <![CDATA[Cameron Teegarden, left, and Michael Ferraro work on a vocabulary assignment about the Bill of Rights during Rachel Caswell's 4th-grade class at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:39 <![CDATA[Third-grade students Natalie Evans, left, and Nariah Williams play a hand clapping game during lunch at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:38 <![CDATA[Third-grade student Nate James, center, shows his goal setting folder to Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:37 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Lesley Correa listens to teacher Abbey Blythe give instructions for a science experiment at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:36 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade student Grace Meiser works with magnets during Abbey Blythe's science class at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:35 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade teacher Abbey Blythe gives instructions for an activity involving magnets at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:34 <![CDATA[Fourth-grade reading and writing teacher Rachel Caswell works with a small group at Cline Elementary School (Campbell County), a Blue Ribbon School, Nov. 10, 2010. The students were learning about vocabulary and main ideas from the Bill of Rights. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:33 <![CDATA[Anne Mason Elementary School (Scott County) 2nd-grade student Kevin Bowling samples apple cider during Courtney Baird's class visit to Evan's Orchard in Scott County. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:32 <![CDATA[Evan's Orchard employee Leigh Ayres demonstrates the apple sorter for students from Anne Mason Elementary School (Scott County) Sept. 22, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:31 <![CDATA[Courtney Baird takes a picture of her students riding through the apple orchard during a visit to Evan's Orchard in Scott County Sept. 22, 2010. Baird teaches second grade at Anne Mason Elementary School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:30 <![CDATA[Anne Mason Elementary School (Scott County) 2nd-grade student Carol Paleti samples apples at Evan's Orchard in Scott County Sept. 22, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:29 <![CDATA[Second-grade student Josh Coronado places an apple turnover on the food pyramid during a field trip to Evan's Orchard in Scott County Sept. 22, 2010. He is a student at Anne Mason Elementary School (Scott County). Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:28 <![CDATA[Green County Middle School 6th-grade students Allanah McBride and Riley Suratt share a special relationship as hard of hearing students Nov. 16, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:27 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Deaf regional outreach consultant Andy Hensley signs with Green County Middle School 6th-grade students Allanah McBride and Riley Suratt Nov. 16, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:26 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Deaf regional outreach consultant Andy Hensley works with Green County Middle School 6th-grade students Allanah McBride and Riley Suratt Nov. 16, 2010. Also pictured are special education instructor Karla Deaton, left, and instructional assistant Shelia Williamson. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:25 <![CDATA[Glasgow Middle School (Glasgow Ind.) 7th-grade student Eli Huff reads for Kentucky School for the Blind regional outreach consultant Betsy Flener during an assesment Nov. 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:24 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Blind regional outreach consultant Betsy Flener has Glasgow Middle School (Glasgow Ind.) 7th-grade student Eli Huff read from a distance during an assesment Nov. 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:23 <![CDATA[Kentucky School for the Blind regional outreach consultant Betsy Flener, left, and teacher Lisa Underwood speak with Glasgow Middle School (Glasgow Ind.) 7th-grade student Eli Huff before an assesment by Flener Nov. 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:22 <![CDATA[Janelle Mason helps New Highland Elementary School (Hardin County) kindergarten student Yamato Kojima pick lettuce from the garden June 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:21 <![CDATA[Junior Michael Miller eats a pea pod out of the school garden at Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) May 26, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:20 <![CDATA[Sophomore Cody Willhoite, junior Michael Miller and sophomore Meranda Sizemore water plants at the school garden at Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) May 26, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:19 <![CDATA[Connor Bumpas, 4, watches and learns from Janelle Mason how to prepare vegetables during the Get Going Gardening program at Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) June 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:18 <![CDATA[Clarkson Elementary School kindergarten student Michell Lynch washes fresh-picked lettuce with her mother Tomoko Lynch during the Get Going Gardening program at Lincoln Trail Elementary School (Hardin County) June 15, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:17 <![CDATA[Fifth-grade teacher Rachel Crider talks with members of the CIA team at McDowell Elementary School (Floyd County) Sept. 23, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:13 <![CDATA[Members of the CIA team at McDowell Elementary School(Floyd County) (pictured clockwise from bottom) reading recovery teacher Vicki Pack, fifth-grade teacher Rachel Crider, principal Jerri Turner, primary teacher Stacy Shannon and fifth-grade teacher Niki Gearheart meet Sept. 23, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:12 <![CDATA[Special education teacher Seth Crisp and curriculum resource teacher Linda Bartrum review test scores with principle Charles Rowe at Allen Elementary School (Floyd County) Sept. 23, 2010. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:11 <![CDATA[James D. Adams Middle School (Floyd County) assistant principal and CIA team member Johnene Ison, top right, meets with the eighth-grade PLC Sept. 23, 2010. Also pictured clockwise from Ison are special education teacher Dreama Wells, eighth-grade teacher Renita Cooler, science teacher Shane Simpkins and mathematics teacher Joseph Bolden. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:10 <![CDATA[Music teacher Greta Gilbert, RTI teacher Pam Caudill and assistant principal Tommy Poe watch over a group of students during Gilbert's fine arts class at Prestonsburg High School (Floyd County) Sept. 23, 2010. Students pictures are Rachal Johnson, Lisa Ratliff, Brooke Thornsbury and Sarah Trimble. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:9 <![CDATA[Caleb Click sculpts his mask during Samantha Young's eighth-grade art class at Estill County Middle School Sept. 10 2010. Students started by sketching a mask, used Model Magic to sculpt, then painted the mask and created a background to go along with their story about the mask. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:8 <![CDATA[Will Foster, Jennifer Henry and Adrian Rogers sculpt masks during Samantha Young's eighth-grade art class at Estill County Middle School Sept. 10 2010. Students started by sketching a mask, used Model Magic to sculpt, then painted the mask and created a background to go along with their story about the mask. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:7 <![CDATA[Art teacher Samantha Young and eighth-grade student Kyla Johnson laugh as they discover Johnson's mask is too thin to move without tearing the clay during art class at Estill County Middle School Sept. 10 2010. They decided to wait until it dried to move it. Students started by sketching a mask, used Model Magic to sculpt, then painted the mask and created a background to go along with their story about the mask. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:6 <![CDATA[Dallas Turner sculpts a mask during Samantha Young's eighth-grade art class at Estill County Middle School Sept. 10 2010. Students started by sketching a mask, used Model Magic to sculpt, then painted the mask and created a background to go along with their story about the mask. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:5 <![CDATA[Caleb Click sculpts his mask during Samantha Young's eighth-grade art class at Estill County Middle School Sept. 10 2010. Students started by sketching a mask, used Model Magic to sculpt, then painted the mask and created a background to go along with their story about the mask. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:4 <![CDATA[The Middle School Teacher of the Year Ashley Forrest, Teacher of the Year Erika Webb and Elementary School Teacher of the Year Sarah Wilder pose for pictures after the Kentucky Teacher of the Year awards ceremony Oct. 19, 2010 in Frankfort, Ky. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:3 <![CDATA[Erika Webb, an English teacher at East Jessamine High School (Jessamine County), hugs her husband, Brad Webb, after being named Kentucky Teacher of the Year Oct. 19, 2010 in Frankfort, Ky. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:2 <![CDATA[Erika Webb, an English teacher at East Jessamine High School (Jessamine County), celebrates being named Kentucky Teacher of the Year Oct. 19, 2010 in Frankfort, Ky. At right is Secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet Joseph Meyer. Photo by Amy Wallot]]> image-id:1