
Daniel Day Begins as Superintendent of Leslie County Schools
I’m very proud of Leslie County. It’s humbling to lead the district that raised me. I grew up in these schools and later came back to teach here.
Middle Schoolers on the Move!
Do you have students you are constantly redirecting their focus? Or students who want to aimlessly wander around the room or take unnessecary bathroom breaks? Since our students are allowed less and less time to move, excerise and socialize as they get older we are seeing more restless behaviors in the classroom. In…Read More
Speaking of Technology
Purpose
My project’s purpose is to implement the use of iPad Mini 2’s into speech and language therapy to improved students’ ability to communicate effectively. During speech and language therapy, the speech language pathologist will use the IPads as a servicing platform for improving communication skills through the u…Read More
Mini Grant 2: Coding the Classroom; Creating Future Program Engineers
With coding on the rise, students should be given the opportunity to rise with it. This project will aid in helping students to grow with our world. With my classroom gaining classroom iPads, it also gains opportunity. Students have so many ideas, its time we make them become a…Read More
Mini-Grant 1: Choose your Chair (Flexible Seating in the Classroom)
In order for students to learn to solve problems, make their own choices, and use movement to stay on task, students need an option for a flexible seating classroom. This project will aid in helping to turn a universal room into a 21st century classroom for all students to grow.…Read More
My mini-grant will utilize project-based learning as students explore what it means to be Appalachian and address the questions: “Where Are We From and Where Are We Going?”
My project will utilize many community resources. First of all, we will start our journey by reflecting on the question “Where Are You From?” and write our own “Where I’m F…Read More

I’m very proud of Leslie County. It’s humbling to lead the district that raised me. I grew up in these schools and later came back to teach here.

In 1992, a young teacher walked onto the Dessie Scott campus in Pine Ridge and started what would become one of the most quietly influential