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September 28, 2016

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
National Blue Ribbon School





Another National Blue Ribbon School for Boone County Schools! Today the U.S. Department of Education named Gray Middle School as one of only five in the state to earn this distinction. Congratulations to Gray Middle School!  Gray now joins Mann Elementary in achieving National Blue Ribbon status! Click here to read more.
 
TEACHER ACHIEVEMENT QUALIFIERS
 
The Kentucky Department of Education and Valvoline have selected 24 outstanding Kentucky Educators as recipients of the 
2017 Valvoline Teacher Achievement Awards (TAA).  These teachers qualify to compete for the 2017 Kentucky Teacher of the Year award, which will be announced next month.  Two teachers from Boone County Schools made the list.

Congratulations to: Kimberly Delaney of Longbranch Elementary School and Tricia Shelton for the work that she did while teaching at Boone County High School. Ms. Shelton is now teaching at Cooper High. 
               
Boone County Schools cordially invites you to celebrate our Innovation in Education annual luncheon.

Boone County Schools is recognized by the state of Kentucky as a District of Innovation. We believe in innovative teaching which engages students and in turn empowers communities.  
 
At this luncheon you will see students' innovative learning and design thinking on display and get to talk to students about the kinds of things they are learning in this Distinguished District.  

Date: Wednesday October 26th, 2016
Time: 11:30 a.m. -1 p.m.
Place: Receptions
1379 Donaldson Hwy, Erlanger, KY

Click here to register. Then click on EVENTS.

Superintendent's Student Advisory Council
              
The Superintendent's Student Advisory Council held it's first monthly meeting of the new school year. SSAC students participate in community projects, boost collaboration among schools and act as liaisons from the administration to high school students.  Here they are seen getting to know each other, participating in ice-breaking exercises and discussing what they are excited about for this new school year.
 







Schools of Contribution Award               

Congratulations to the following Elementary schools 
who have been recognized as schools of contribution by Children's Inc.

First time awardees include:
Erpenbeck Elementary
Mann Elementary
 
Continuing Schools of Contribution include:
Collins Elementary
Florence Elementary
Goodridge Elementary
Longbranch Elementary
New Haven Elementary
North Pointe Elementary
Ockerman Elementary
Yealey Elementary 

Schools of Contribution meet specific criteria based on best practices and incorporating a systemic culture of contribution using service learning throughout the school.
At least 70% of the student body plan and participate in a service learning lead by at least 60% of the teachers. 

Through a district-wide partnership with Children Inc., the Boone County School District is engaging all students in service learning experiences.  Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.  BCS students engage in projects such as rehabbing bicycles, giving them to people across the globe who need them, while learning about engineering practices and global issues.  Other projects include learning about water purification and supply and demand while building a business plan to raise funds for water systems to help communities in Africa.  
 
ELEMENTARY             



Longbranch Elementary supports bone marrow drive for student

A bone marrow drive was established and held at NKU last weekend for a Longbranch Elementary student recently diagnosed with Leukemia.  5-year-old Sophia Kappen is in kindergarten.  Her mother, Amy Kappen encourages people to join the Bone Marrow registry to become a bone marrow donor because she says "you never know who's life you might save."





Mann Elementary celebrates Kentucky Kids Day

Students at Mann were greeted Tuesday by Maverick the mascot for Kentucky Kids Day.  Maverick (school board member Steve Templeton) went to each classroom giving students special wristbands.





Kentucky PTA Kids' Day was established in 1985 to set aside one day just for our students. The goal is to send the message to each child that he or she is a special and unique individual who is respected and loved. Kentucky PTA Kids' Day also serves as a day to make the public aware of the educational and personal needs of children and the role they play as our most important natural resource. 
MIDDLE SCHOOL 

PLTW TEACHER OF THE YEAR 

R.A. Jones Middle School teacher Todd Hanley has been named the PLTW Middle School Gateway Teacher of the Year for the state of Kentucky! As a Master Teacher for Project Lead The Way, Mr. Hanley teaches Design and Modeling, Robotics, and Medical Detectives. 
Todd Hanley

Mr. Hanley says of this recognition, " I am honored to be selected to receive this award.  I look at this as a recognition of the success of the PLTW program at Jones Middle School by the hard working students, the supportive administration, and the staff as a whole who have accepted this program and allowed it to become as successful as it is and made it central in the growth of our school. "

Mr. Hanley will be honored along with the other PLTW award winners at a dinner prior to the beginning of their state conference on October 2nd in Shelbyville, Kentucky.  Hanley was recognized and awarded Master Teacher for PLTW earlier this year.  Congratulations to Todd Hanley!

HIGH SCHOOL

2016-17 NKIP NaviGo-Boone County-Gateway
Select Pipeline Cohort

Congratulations to 18 Boone County Schools seniors from each high school, Boone County High School, Conner High School, Cooper High School and Ryle High.  They were selected for the NaviGo College and Career Prep Services program.

Boone County High School: 



Pictured L to R:
Stephanie Layton (Navigo Coach) Jacob East, Joseph Taylor, Sheldon Loh, Mark Mohammed, Amanda Estes and Tim Schlotman (Principal).  Not pictured: Jacob Wilson.

Conner High School:



Trenton Evans, Zachary Meacham, Colten Dunhoft, and 
Adam Hillman 

Cooper High School: 


Nicholas Johnson, Derek Hewitt, and Zachary Fields 

Ryle High School:  
Dalton O'Cull, Brad Lewis, Michael Osborn,Ryan Olesen, and 
Jarod Cousin 

The 2016-2017 NKIP NaviGo-Boone County Select Enhanced Operators Pipeline Cohort Program is a partnership between NaviGo and the Boone County School System for seniors.  Local industry partners help design activities to provide the students with hands-on/real work experience, simulated activities and employee  engagement specific to their company.  In addition to hands-on skills, students will improve their soft skills (people skills--the ability to collaborate and negotiate, have empathy, good manners and a sense of humor) that are valued in the workplace. 

School Based Scholar (SBS) Program announces SBS Ambassadors

As a SBS Ambassador, currently enrolled SBS students will be promoting the benefits of NKU dual-credit classes and share their own dual-credit experience with potential freshman, sophomores, and juniors at their respective high schools. Dual-credit classes help students gain college credit hours so that they will be ahead once they graduate high school and in many cases even have earned an Associate's Degree. 

Ambassadors selected from Boone County High Schools:

Boone County High School - Cristabel Kusi Appiah, Maleah Hirn, Ethan Hasbrouck, Dillon Warning

Conner High School - Samantha Roth, Hannah Woolum, Indonesia Boggs
Cooper  High School - Lydia Hinton, Timothy Stidham

Ryle High School - Camila Lauciello, Isaac Feiler, Andrew Storer, Olivia Hinton, Kennedy Brooks, Brooke Rickert

Congratulations to all!

Ryle High School 

Native American talks to students about Native American culture

A descendant of the Cherokee nation addressed Ryle's entire junior class this week.  Helen Danser chairs the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission.   

Some of Ryle's 11th grade students are researching ways to support the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission's mission to "promote awareness of Native American influence within historical and cultural experiences within the Commonwealth." 
 



Juniors are also researching the Commission's effort to advocate for the commonwealth's approval of a legal definition of "American Indian." 
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS =  SERVICE HOURS

Kids Voting Northern Kentucky is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that has existed since 1995 to teach young people the importance of, and help them develop the habit of voting.
Kids Voting NKY are looking for student volunteers who are available to work at the polls during the day and/or who can assist with counting the ballots that evening between 6 and 9pm at the Sanitation District #1 Office, 1045 Eaton Dr., Ft. Wright, 41011.  

NEW THIS YEAR - volunteers are needed to help spot check precinct locations in  Campbell and Kenton Counties around mid-morning to make sure everything is set up properly and then again in the afternoon to make sure they have enough ballots. 

If you are available and would like to volunteer, please contact KidsVotingNorthernKentucky@gmail.com or call 859-982-9353 and make a note of how you would like to help.  You are also welcome to forward this to others you think may be interested in helping! 
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ALUMNI REGISTRATION 
We would like to keep you up to date on things happening in the district since you graduated.  If you are a graduate of the Boone County School District please click on Alumni Registration in the 
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CAREER NEWS

We are looking for former graduates of Boone County Schools to tell us their stories of professional career success after graduating from this district. If you are one of those students or if you have a son or daughter with post college graduate successes that should be celebrated, please email your story and a j.peg-only picture of yourself or your former student to bcbe@boone.kyschools.us.  Important: the subject line must read: For Alumni Spotlight.  We will post it in the Alumni Spotlight section of this school district newsletter.