Another board we have done

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Some bulletin boards we have done to spread the “kindness”

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Spreading kindness and encouraging words throughout the school.

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We are getting a lot of donations for our clothing closet for our students in need.

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We have continued to work with administrators and our student council project to choose a specific location in the main hallway for our mural. Previously we discussed that we would be releasing a survey to our student body to receive additional input from stakeholders. We have created the survey and plan on releasing and examining the data in…Read More

As of now our schools Student Council has received permission from the Breathitt High School administration to begin our project to paint the lockers in our main hallway and we have a survey that is expected to be released in the near future.

More Growth Mindset materials!

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Growth Mindset materials have arrived! Get ready for a paradigm shift!

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Wanted to give a shout out to Mr. Andrew Castle at KVEC for all of his help with our 2019-20 Phelps High School Student Senate plan. He is always there with an answer when you need it. Thanks to him, we are now implementing our School ID Program. All freshmen will receive a school ID along with all school personnel. #ProtectThisHive

Trajon Campbell, KVEC Senior Student Senator was sworn in tonight as the new student representative on the Hazard Board of Education by the board attorney. Student representation/student voice was a primary goal of the HHS KVEC Student Senate three years ago. Trajon Campbell is the fourth student to serve on the board. Congratulations Trajon!…Read More

Excited to share the numbers from our Grab ‘N Go breakfast program. This project was a huge hit with our students. With this program, we have experienced record high breakfast participation. For the first time all school year, we served over 300 breakfasts. Many of the items we have served on the cart as “second-chance” reflect the preferences…Read More

Reflections from our presentation at the FIRE Summit.
Our team presented on the activities we have done this year to improve our reading scores. Since the programs brought into the school did improve our reading scores by 15%, we feel that our efforts paid off. Therefore, we were pleased to share pictures and statistics at the fire summit.…Read More

Story #3 Reflection – Our STEM Nights were such a great success. It brought parents/guardians and students together in a way they haven’t been brought together this year. So many parents/guardians were excited to learn about all the resources we have available at South Floyd Elementary and they were interested to learn about what their children…Read More

AES Community ACT Collaboration: Jessica Hall – ARH Hospital is a member of the data base. She has participated many times throughout the year at Allen Elementary. Events include Read Across America Day and Career Day. Jessica is also an active community member of our FRYSC Advisory Council. People like her helps to make our school a…Read More

While reflecting upon our school year here at Betsy Layne High School, I noticed that I have not followed up on our “Polar Express” night. It was quite a success. We had several families from the community show up for popcorn, a movie (Polar Express) and all the children were read a book of their choice. Several of the high school students…Read More

FES CommunityACT Collaboration: Mrs. Angie Chaney added her name to the data base to connect with Teachers who may need her expertise. She has been called upon many times throughout the year. Mrs. Chaney collaborates with FRYSC events to photograph Students and Families during Veterans Day, Grandparents Celebration, Angel Tree, Children Inc.,…Read More

FES Reflections to School Story #3 on CommunityACT Collaboration. Brenda Curry Teresa Prince.

FES Story #3 on CommunityACT Collaboration – Brenda Curry Teresa Prince

I was happy to be a part of this amazing group! Each and everyone is inspiring and so dedicated to raising children to be proud of Eastern Kentucky. Our little school has been so busy like everyone else. We put on a sold out performance of Peter Pan. Again, our community came out in support. We had parent volunteers who did lighting, sound, and…Read More

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For the third school story, our Art teacher will be hosting an evening Art show. Students artwork throughout the year will be displayed in the hallway in a gallery style. Parents and the community will be invited to walk through and enjoy the students work.

Our 6th graders will also be working on a new Paintsville Elementary brochure that can be…Read More

Wow! What an exciting year for Magoffin County High School and the community within our county?!? Our original idea was to partner each teacher with a community member in a similar field. After beginning our community partnership journey, we discovered we really needed to narrow our focus to include ACT subject areas and partner those core…Read More

Reflection-Theory of Action:

Overall, I feel the parent/community events held at Louisa Elementary Schools has had a positive impact on the community and parent involvement within the schools. I believe community partners and parents know that working together as a team positively influences education. I will continue to work with my community…Read More

Reflection of Story #3

The Easter Canvas painting class went great! We had over 70 students, parents and grandparents to attend. Everyone enjoyed the evening and we had positive feedback from everyone. We also had several request for more painting classes. We are excited to offer more of these classes in the future!

Louisa Elementary FRC will facilitate a community event and partner with The Lawrence County Public Library to host an Easter painting class for students and parents at Louisa East Elementary School on April 18, 2019 from 4-6:00pm.

I used the CommunityACT surveys to invite community members to become involved in the CommunityAct program. I handed the surveys out at our annual BabyFest Community Event. The following community partners filled out a survey and are interested in being involved: Smile Savers Program, HANDS program, Lawrence County Extension Office, Addiction…Read More

The Louisa Elementary Family Resource Center partnered our community partners for Dr. Seuss week. Community partners spent the day reading to our students at Louisa East and West Elementary Schools.

Louisa East Elementary School had Data Night/Dr.Seuss Night. Students and parents came and enjoyed a snack, craft, and a photo booth. Students…Read More

I used social media to invite community members to become involved in the CommunityACT program. Hopefully connections can be made that will benefit both schools and people in our community. We can both learn a lot from each other.

Brenda and I have made a Facebook post to invite the Community to offer their expertise to our schools by filling out the data base. Our goal is to use the data base to have a Community member share their skill/time with our school before the end of the school year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW6Fn2U0K0g
Season 1, Episode 2 of “Hawk Talk.” The show also airs on EKB-TV every Monday and Wednesday.

Story #3 Reflection

Wonderful news! Our Eagle Enrichment program’s success will hopefully be mirrored at Flat Gap Elementary, as they have just received grant funding to provide a similar program at their site. I know our students absolutely love our before and after school programming!

Story #2 Reflection:

The students decided that they want to collaborate with our media arts students to create a video of their project showcasing the many ways JC prepares students for the workforce. This video can be pushed out to potential community partners. Hopefully they can get started on that after spring break.

Reflection of Writing Night at Paintsville Elementary! It was a success!

We held a community writing night on March 20th. Families participated in a interactive storytelling virtual conference. We had 6 families participate in the event. The Family Resource Center provided food and materials needed for the family event.
Overall, families who…Read More

Louisa East Elementary’s story #2 will be on our Dr.Seuss Day, “Read Across America.” Louisa Elementary Family Resource center partnered with local community partners to read throughout the day to students at Louisa East and West Elementary Schools.

Fallsburg Elementary Story #2 will be on our school’s Preschool Kindergarten Art Show. We have joined forces with our Family Resource Youth Service Center, Kindergarten Classrooms, Arts and Humanities Teacher, Extension Office, Area Artists and the Arts and Humanities Teacher/Students at the High School to create and display art that not only…Read More

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This is the second story for Letcher Middle School.

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I’m so thankful that we have a great relationship with our local radio station. They have allowed us to come in and share our school’s story. As we have grown and changed, they allowed us again to come in and share an updated version of our story. They also sent us the file so we could post to various social media platforms. I encourage you to…Read More

We have been working on our needs list for purchase. We had originally planned to purchase a complete transportable sound system. The principal provided us some in kind contributions of speakers and an older mixer/amp. What was needed now was items to complete the system. We needed many cords and adaptors, microphones, and had enough funds to…Read More

Pikeville Independent Student Senate Plan

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This year we will be continuing many of our past programs, while mainly focusing on getting our $10,000 grant project, that will affect our entire community, completed as well. Besides the grant project we plan to implement once again, an Ambassador Council in our school as well as…Read More

The Letcher County Central Student Senate members have been meeting with administrators to work on improving attendance. They are sharing ideas and helping develop an incentive program for good attendance.

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Thanks to all who attended the 1:00 virtual meeting today. We will repeat at 3:30 today for those that couldn’t attend the 1:00 meeting. See email for link!

In addition to our leadership team working on the “Celebrating Educator and Student Success at the Capitol” they were very interested in showcasing all the leadership activities that our school is involved in. We invited “The Holler Boys” to come and speak with our students about creating several videos that would showcase all they have done. We…Read More

So far we have gotten the new staff members their ID and new hall passes. Our “Shop Local” project is going to continue as well. Our senior representative and I have contacted all the businesses to see who is still going to participate. The school announcements will continue to be posted on the television in the lobby. Our students have really…Read More

Also our ID badges have caught the eye of our local sheriffs department. They have asked us to design badges for their staff members.

JCS Students are representing the students at JCS as they work with faculty & Staff on updating the schools Wellness Plan.

Welcome ! Come out and join the Buckhorn Community in the school library, Thursday January 10th at 5pm; as the Student senate leads a FREE Basket weaving class. Visit with old friends, enjoy refreshments and Create your own Functional Art just like in the old days.

Wyatt Lucas and I just done a survey with the elementary school students and their parents. We had a great response that showed tons of interest in our Community Garden Innitiative! With those results, we will create an application for students who are interested. We are also going to allow students in our school to volunteer their time to help…Read More

LMS has created a Parent Support Group in an effort to encourage parental involvement. Our first meeting was not the response that we envisioned. After reflecting on our first meeting, we concluded the time needed to be changed so more parents could participate. We felt that the plan we had for it was strong so we did not revisit our initial idea.