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Education

  • Taylor County schools will keep nurses

    A contract with the Lake Cumberland District Health Department to provide nursing services to the Taylor County School District for the 2013-2014 school year was approved at the Board's regular meeting on June 7.

    The fee for each of the district's three nurses increased $500, making the fee $14,000 per nurse.

    Superintendent Roger Cook said the agreement is a good deal because several districts have eliminated their nursing services or can only afford a traveling nurse that must divide their time among all schools in a district.

  • Local students pinned during CU School of Education ceremony

     

    Campbellsville University students receiving education degrees were told to "be the best teacher you can be, work at it" by Dr. Frank Cheatham, senior vice president for academic affairs at CU in the School of Education's pinning ceremony on May 3 in Russ Mobley Theater.

  • TCMS students honored

     

    Taylor County Middle School recognized eighth-grade students during an award and promotion ceremony on May 21. Many students were honored by subject, for maintaining a 4.0 GPA for all three years of middle school and an outstanding eighth-grader was named.

    Receiving reading awards were Lucian Gribbins, Madison Bishop, Fayth Wise and Gabby Coomer. Andie Woodcox, Emma Miles, Austin Malone, Kaitlyn Lee, Lydia Epperson and Morgan Benningfield received writing awards.

  • FCCLA members participate in STAR events

     

    Campbellsville High School FCCLA members recently participated in STAR events. Reagan Katona and Daniel Rainwater entered the competition with their Digital Story for Change project entitled "Is It Worth It?" to educate teens about the dangers of texting while driving.

    The digital story can be found on the CHS website by clicking on Deanna Campbell's web site.

    Brandy Chelf won regional competition in the Interpersonal Communications category for her Bible Study Outreach project and presented her project at the state FCCLA meeting.

  • Hinton named aviation educator of the year

     

    Taylor County High School chemistry/physics/aviation science teacher Deborah Hinton was recently named the 2013 Air Force Association Aviation Educator of the Year. Gene McManaway from the Air Force Association presented Hinton with the award.

    Hinton started the Flying Cardinals program in 2010, and since then the Flying Cardinals have received numerous statewide awards, including:

    First year 2010-2011 - Place second in state at Wing Design Challenge and first in written formal report and recognized for best uniform thanks to Fancy That.

  • CHS students attend FCCLA meeting

     

    Campbellsville High School FCCLA members Sidney Edwards, Brandy Chelf and Cheyenne Milby attended the annual Kentucky Association of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America meeting in Louisville at the Galt House.

    There were more than 1,000 members and advisers from across the state in attendance.

    The group is a dynamic student organization that has the mission to promote personal growth and leadership development through family and consumer sciences education.

  • TCES students volunteer at Ronald McDonald house

     

    Taylor County Elementary School students are helping "pick up the tab" for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass one soda tab at a time.

    Students Jayden McCubbin, Callie McCubbin and Chloe McCubbin, Molly Bush and Jayda Smith began collecting tabs in their Girls in Action mission group at Liberty Baptist Church with the help of their leader, Paula Smith.

    Recently, the group volunteered to cook supper for residents at the Ronald McDonald house and turned in more than 50 pounds of tabs.

  • Green County teachers win EIT awards

     

    Green County School System teachers - many with Campbellsville ties - recently received the Campbellsville University Excellence in Teaching Award from Dr. Brenda Priddy, dean of the School of Education, and Dr. Frank Cheatham, senior vice president for academic affairs, far.

  • Campbellsville schools' move still in progress

    Work to reconfigure the Campbellsville Independent School system's buildings is about halfway complete.

    Superintendent Mike Deaton said classrooms are being physically moved and floors sealed and waxed in the process.

    He said new offices are more or less set up and phone lines have been moved. As such, if someone calls the elementary school, he said, the call now rings at the former middle school, which is where students in preschool through third grade will attend class as of August.

  • TCMS names new assistant principal

     

    Though his job title has changed, Shane Cox moved just a few feet to get there.

    Cox, who has served as a teacher in the Taylor County School District for 10 years, was recently named assistant principal of Taylor County Middle School.

    "It's something I've always wanted to do," Cox said. "I'll just be working hand-in-hand with [TCMS Principal Tony] Jewell. Whatever he needs me to do, I'll be his right-hand man."

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