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Education

  • Fitness Fridays offers students variety

    P.E. class is not your typical routine on Fitness Fridays at T.K. Stone Middle School in Elizabethtown.

    Instead of focusing on a single activity, Fitness Fridays consist of a number of different stations, including hurdles, push-ups, basketball, resistance bands and chair dips. Sometimes one of the stations is a fitness program like P90X, which uses DVDs that focus on developing specific parts of the body.

    “They get to choose,” said P.E. teacher Daniel Thorn.

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  • Elementaries make Black History Month count

    Elementary students around the county have been taking part in lessons for Black History Month during the past few weeks, with teachers ensuring lessons begin at an early age.

    One fourth grade class at Morningside Elementary School made models of historical black figures who have been featured on  postage stamps. Students had to learn about the person and give a presentation on the subjects’ lives, teacher Roseann Thrush said.

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  • Tentative budget plans show potential staff loss at HCS

    Tentative plans for school funding show most Hardin County schools possibly losing some money for staff for the next school year.

    The Hardin County Schools board approved tentative allocations at its meeting Tuesday, which showed most of the schools would be losing staff if the final allocations are set as they are now.

    Superintendent Nannette Johnston said Thursday staffing for teachers needs to adjust to enrollment, which is down in some places.

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  • Central Hardin graduate to direct band at new high school

    By TOM DEKLE, Landmark News Service

    Shawn Robinson, an accomplished musician, music teacher and conductor, will be the first leader of the Thomas Nelson High School music program.

    “He’s a very successful conductor. He’s a very dedicated musician, and first and foremost, he is intent on making great things happen for kids,” Principal Wes Bradley said Thursday.

    Thomas Nelson High, a new high school in eastern Nelson County, opens this fall.

    For Robinson, the position will amount to somewhat of a homecoming.

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  • Hitting the right notes:Duda named KMEA Elementary Teacher of the Year

    Debby Duda is retiring from G.C. Burkhead Elementary School on a high note.

    Duda, music teacher at G.C. Burkhead, was named Elementary School Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Music Educators Association at its awards presentation last week. Duda received $500 with the award to be used for materials for her classroom.

    The award comes during Duda’s last year before she retires from her 29-year teaching career, all spent at G.C. Burkhead.

    Duda learned she had won the award a few months ago, after receiving an email from the organization at home.

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  • Chuck Campbell to be inducted in BOA Hall of Fame

    Chuck Campbell has been widely and fondly remembered in the Hardin County community, but next month, his mark on the world of music education will be recognized nationally.

    Campbell, former band director at North Hardin High School, will be posthumously inducted into the Bands of America Hall of Fame. The award for Campbell, who died in July of pancreatic cancer at age 70, will be accepted by his wife, Judy, a former counselor at North Hardin.

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  • Morningside’s Rogers named EIS' ExCEL winner

    Morningside Elementary School’s gain was Kentucky School Supplies’ loss when Wesley Rogers was hired at the school.

    Rogers, a second-grade teacher at Morningside , has been named the newest ExCEL winner for Elizabethtown Independent Schools.

    The ExCEL award, which stands for Excellence in Classroom and Educational Leadership, is an award given in several school systems in the region. It’s sponsored by WHAS-TV, LG&E and Kentucky Utilities.

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  • Senate bill could allow students to graduate early

    Early high school graduation could be a possibility if a Kentucky Senate bill gains support from the House of Representatives.

    The bill, currently in the House Education Committee, could make it possible for students to begin a course of study in middle school or their freshman year of high school that would allow them to graduate early from high school and receive money to go to college.

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  • Submissions due by Feb. 21 for ECTC art contest

    High school students can enter the 2012 Juried Art Contest at the local community college this year.

    The 2012 Juried Art Contest sponsored by the Elizabethtown Community and Technical College’s “The Heartland Review” is taking submissions.

    The contest will split into two categories, one for students and one for artists in general. Themes for the pieces are inspired by natural elements, and nature, environmentalism, natural materials, the body, urbanism, identity and responses to modernity are possible themes.

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  • Dow Corning donates close to $13,000 for HCS technology

    Several of Hardin County Schools’ middle schools received money from Dow Corning to use for technology.

    Dow Corning reached out to HCS to offer funding for programs that dealt with science, technology, engineering or math, known as STEM, said John Wright, HCS community relations director. Middle school officials filled out grant applications detailing what they would use the money for, and Dow Corning handed out almost $13,000 to four schools, according to an HCS news release.

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