With the schools year coming to an end, I would like to express my true appreciation of the ARI Grant. React to Reading was truly a success. Student voice, student choice, and student accountability were a good formula for reading growth. Through the use of ARI funds, our classroom enjoyed a total of 30 new chapter book sets. We are grateful…Read More

Harlan County High School’s 2017-2018 CmPS team project was to encourage and educate the youth of Harlan County to participate in community problem solving.

As a team, we went to all of the middle school academic coaches and asked them to ask their academic team members id they would be interested. Two schools were interested: Wallins Jr. High…Read More

Bringing Coding to Life with Robotics…. Students have been learning coding skills with the Dash and Dot robots. Many students even have these robots at home now. They had never been exposed to computer science or coding skills until I introduced these into our classroom. TIme was the biggest factor that I would run into with the implementation…Read More

Hand in Hand completed the first versions of their app to provide support for women who suffer from SUD so that complications for babies born with NAS can be minimized. The app can be downloaded at johnson.kyschools/CmPS. On Wednesday, May 16 Appalachian Witeless reps are meeting with the team to help them figure out how to expand their app so…Read More

What a wonderful experience it has been to watch my students engage in coding and robotic activities. Lego Mindstorm has encouraged my students to explore a whole new avenue of creative and technological sides of education. The students learned and taught each other through this first year process. They are now asking when we can do that again.…Read More