What’s been one of the biggest influences on teacher Ashley Gabbard of Rosa Parks Elementary? A week-long trip in college more than a decade ago when she and a group of 30 other students visited concentration camps in Poland. At Auschwitz, Treblinka and other camps, the group stood in the gas chambers, walked in the […]
In many classrooms, mistakes are the enemy. Not so in Lerin Parker’s second grade class at Western Elementary in Georgetown, Ky. Mistakes, although not encouraged, are embraced as part of the learning process – what Parker and her colleagues call the growth mindset. Instead of discouraged students concluding that a lesson is too difficult for […]
When Arlington Elementary Principal Kim Lippert needs a staff volunteer to launch a new project, she knows whose hand will shoot up first…she knows kindergarten teacher Amanda Marshall is ready to help. In her sixth year at Arlington, Marshall — who sits on the SBDM council — was the leader of the school’s Born Learning […]
A study in perpetual motion, first grade teacher Keegan Hatton swooshes across the floor from one activity to the next, always keeping her Bourbon Central Elementary students connected and engaged. Even the classroom itself seems to vibrate with vitality – a veritable explosion of color with nary an empty spot on the walls and ceilings. […]
Rose Thrush knows in her bones the best fit for her in a career that spans 26 years is the kindergarten classroom at Simmons Elementary in Versailles, and to arrive there it’s been quite a journey – one that began in Kentucky with stops in Memphis, Virginia and the U.S. Army. Raised in Western Kentucky, […]
Five years into her career as a middle school math teacher, Kegan Nall left Edythe J. Hayes to embark on a yearlong mission trip – with no promise of a job when she returned. With The World Race Christian mission group, Nall worked in 11 countries on four continents. From Vietnam to Thailand, Uganda, Ethiopia, […]
After 37 years in the classroom, you’d think Denise Finley would have downshifted by now into a slower gear. Downshift? No way. Finley knows only one gear — full speed ahead. “She has been committed to kids her whole career, and she has never taken her foot off the gas,” said Carrie Paul, administrative dean […]
It’s not surprising that math teacher Karen Grace would educate the best of the best in her A.P. statistics class at West Jessamine High School. After all, she is a National Board Certified teacher with 15 years experience, is the chair of the department with the most tenure, and she was last year’s school teacher […]
Principal Chris Salyers of The Learning Center in Lexington calls Cindy Zeller a “superstar teacher, a pillar of the school.”
If you’re looking for evidence of teachers who care, you could do worse than observe Alison Calhoun on the last day of school at West Jessamine Middle.
