IT started out looking like Mars. Now steel beams, brick and grass are giving it form. It’s the fast-moving ONE School project, and everyone at The Lexington School feels the excitement for next fall when it will be ready. After all, it is a $10 million project that will impact every single member of The […]
Montessori teacher Patty Webb saw it with her own eyes when a friend begged her to visit a classroom at Community Montessori School. At the time, Webb’s daughter, now 18, was 4 and attending another preschool. Reluctantly, Webb took her friend’s advice: she went, she saw and Montessori conquered. “It was magical to see children […]
With its combination of small classes, enriched curriculum, and high academic expectations, Capital Day School in Frankfort has been creating independent learners for six decades. As a non-sectarian independent school for children ages 3-14, Capital Day concentrates on teaching critical thinking skills, a love of learning and independent learning skills. Capital Day’s preschool is a […]
CAPITAL DAY SCHOOL 120 Deepwood Drive, Frankfort Head of School: Tim Corkran Enrollment: 134, Preschool-8th grade (including Montessori for PK-3rd) Student-teacher ratio: Preschool 8:1; K-8th, 7:1 / Founded: 1955 (502) 227-7121 / www.capitaldayschool.net CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF THE BLUEGRASS 1776 Cincinnati Pike, Georgetown Administrator: Jana Sheridan Grades: K-12 Founded: 2016 (502) 642-4682 Cabluegrass.org COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL […]
Welcome to Nugent Nation. That’s Amanda Nugent’s third-grade classroom at Huntertown Elementary in Versailles, where the national motto is “Never Settle for Less Than Your Best” and where all children receive a hug from their teacher every morning. Her students came up with the name for the room and even created a digital flag. Taking […]
Sayre School senior Will Peters-Seymour has been named a 2019 Honorable Mention winner in Jazz Guitar by the National YoungArts Foundation. Selected from thousands of applications, Will has been recognized for his outstanding artistic achievements along with 710 of the nation’s most promising young artists from 44 states across visual, literary, design, and performing arts. […]
Learning begins the moment a baby is born, and before a child turns 5 years old, 90% of his or her brain development is complete. That means the experiences children have before they ever enter school lay the foundation necessary for a lifetime of success. Unfortunately, the most recent data released by the Kentucky Department […]
Child Development Center of the Bluegrass 290 Alumni Drive / Info: 218-2322 / www.cdcbg.org Description: Founded in 1958, CDCB provides pre-school and child care programs, and therapy services that benefit children both with and without special needs. 5-STAR rated in Ky. and NAEYC accredited. On-site physical, occupational and speech therapy offered to enrolled students and […]
Sherry Botts has always had a heart for children in Title I schools. That feeling started when Botts was a child helping her aunt, Wilma Gooden, who taught in a Title I school back home in Glasgow, Ky. So when Botts was assigned as a student teacher to Harrison Elementary School, she felt right at […]
For the 14th year in a row, the Living Arts & Science Center has helped more than 200 low-income, underserved students with its Science Explorers program. The program is offered at five Title 1 elementary schools in Lexington: Cardinal Valley, Russell Cave, Yates, William Wells Brown, and Arlington. Science Explorers is a free after-school program […]
