Writing Contest Winners Announced
Lexington Family Magazine’s 13th annual Writing Contest saw fierce competition between several elementary schools vying for the $500 cash prize. In the end, Booker T. Washington Elementary had 89% participation from its student body, passing Paint Lick Elementary by a handful of entries. The Lexington Public Library, the magazine’s Writing Contest partner, hosted a series […]
Library Reading Program — ‘Discover Summer’ & Win Prizes
Get out your flip-flops, it’s time to head to the library. What?! Reading by the pool, at the beach or in the shade is a summer essential, and Discover Summer – the Lexington Public Library’s reimagined summer reading program – has found the sweet spot where learning and having fun meet. “I can hardly wait […]
The Curious Edge — Let Curious Edge Be a Game Changer
By Kimberly Hudson Has this school year been difficult? Why not use the summer to get your child prepared for the next school year? A mom stopped by my office yesterday to share a story about her daughter. Eight-year-old “Katherine” repeated kindergarten for social maturity and is currently finishing the second grade. Katherine has ongoing […]
KU Scholar Athlete of the Month: Ethan Tan
It All Adds Up: 11 A.P. Classes, 2 State Titles School: Dunbar High GRADE: 12 SportS: Track, cross-country, swimming, Academics: Ethan has a 4.7419 weighted GPA in the math-science program and has taken 11 A.P. classes. Parents: May & Vincent What’s the definition of a Scholar-Athlete? Look no further than the […]
Asbury Educator of the Month: Ashley Gabbard
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 […]
Students Collect Bottle Caps That Become Eco-Friendly Bench and Picnic Table
What do math, science, history, design thinking, environmental awareness, philanthropy, and fifth graders at The Lexington School have in common? Together they build stuff. More than stuff – a bench and picnic table. The project started in the fall when fifth grader Claire Robbins wrote a persuasive essay about the Bottle Caps to Benches project […]
Writing Contest Winners Announced
Our 13th annual Writing Contest saw fierce competition between several elementary schools all vying for the $500 cash prize. In the end, Booker T. Washington Elementary had 89% participation, just passing Paint Lick Elementary by a handful of entries. The Lexington Public Library, our Writing Contest partner, hosted a series of Write-a-Thon events over the […]
2017 Writing Contest Winning Essays
Sofia Linwick 1st Grade, Hearn Elementary Grand Prize If I found 1 billion dollars, I would look for the owner of the money first. But if I couldn’t find the owner, I would split the money in 100 bags with 10 million in each bag. I would donate 10 bags all over the world for […]
Redwood Cooperative School: Much More Than Child’s Play — School Principles: Play, Progressive Education, Parent Involvement
By John Lynch A year ago, her son Cooper, an active, talkative, impulsive 5-year-old, was constantly in trouble at school, losing recess time and trudging to the principal’s office.Kindergarten nearly destroyed home life for local mom Kari Mullins and her family. Plus, teachers pulled him out of class because – the family was […]
KU Scholar Athlete of the Month: Autumn Herriford
For Autumn, It’s All Fun and Games School: Dunbar High GRADE: 12 Sport: Basketball Academics: Autumn is a straight-A student with a 4.71 weighted GPA. She scored 31 on the ACT, has taken six A.P. classes and is a National Honor Society member. Parents: Kelly & Greg In fact, “court” is too limiting. Nobody in […]
Asbury University Educator of the Month: Lerin Parker
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 […]
The Lexington School Offers Middle School Scholarships
As the school has in the past, The Lexington School will grant two scholarships worth up to $75,000 each to a disadvantaged boy and girl entering the sixth grade. The scholarships will cover all expenses including materials, fees, after school care and school trips during the student’s time in middle school. To be eligible, students […]
Newton’s Attic Robotics Team to Compete in Miami Valley Regional
For the third consecutive year, Newton’s Attic is hosting Team 2856, Fayette County’s FIRST Competition Robotics Team, which is preparing for the annual FIRST Robotics Competition. Newton’s Attic donates the use of its facility and engineering expertise Monday through Friday after school and Saturdays for the six weeks of the build season leading up to […]
KU Scholar Athlete of the Month: Michaela Reinhart
It’s not that senior Michaela Reinhart, 17, runs everything at Lexington Catholic High, it just seems that way. Michaela, a straight-A student, is the student body president, chairperson of the Honor Council and co-chair of the Dance Blue committee. And for three straight years, she’s been selected her class’s Girl of the Year, an academic […]
Writing Contest: If I Had a Billion Dollar– School Prize Boosted to $500
The 13th Annual Lexington Family Magazine Writing Contest is looking to be the most exciting one yet. Lexington Family is partnering with the Lexington Public Library to offer fun events, cool prizes for kids and $500 to the school with the highest percentage of participation. We are seeking entries from students in Grades K-5 to […]
Asbury Educator of the Month: Amanda Marshall
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 […]
University of Kentucky Will Compensate Subjects For Study on Links Between Physical Activity & Parenting
by John Lynch Assistant Professor Christina Studts, a social worker and public health researcher on positive parenting at UK, noticed a disturbing trend in own her home. For all her parenting expertise, to her dismay, she didn’t practice what she preached, especially after the birth of her second child six years ago. “I knew that […]
Once Diagnosed, 11-Year-Old Blossoms at School
After watching her daughter struggle in fifth grade, Amy Hopper hit a tipping point when Alexis took days to read only one chapter of a book and then could recall nothing of what she had read. Amy turned to The Curious Edge for help. Alexis was tested a year ago and the diagnosis was unequivocal […]
There’s an APP for That
Talk about first impressions. In her initial year at Capital Day School in Frankfort, science teacher Audrey Bebensee has overseen a class project that has netted the school $20,000. A team of five eighth-graders learned Feb. 15 that their idea won the Verizon App Challenge, which is part of Verizon Innovative Learning. The nationwide contest […]
Library Program Helps Parents Prepare Children for Kindergarten
The Lexington Public Library’s new program, “Now It’s Your Turn,” kicks off in February and is designed to help parents prepare their children at home for kindergarten. “Now It’s Your Turn” will take place after regularly scheduled story times and will consist of a brief talk and craft for parents to help them do story […]