Quarter for a Quarter Pledge: Presented by Henderson County Schools
Your child has the opportunity to participate in a philanthropy project to increase awareness of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
Goals of the project:
- Increase awareness of Imagination Library (free books for children birth to 5).
- Collect money to provide financial support to the Henderson County program. The children of Henderson County can help raise money to help other kids enjoy reading their own books before they even get to school.
- We encourage our students to read (or be read to) 15-20 minutes a day. This philanthropy project will support a daily reading effort.
You can help support Quarter for Quarter! If each child participates with a minimum $3.00 pledge, the approximately $9,900.00 will be collected to put books into the hands of children. If your child cannot find a sponsor, we will attempt to obtain a pledge from the community for your child’s reading efforts.
For more information please contact Betsy Wells-Jones: betsy@northwestky.com
The Colonels 2 College Education Advocacy Group was presented with a $250,000 donation from the Rotary Club of Henderson today at the Fine Arts Center in Henderson, KY. Colonels 2 College has partnered with the Rotary Club and will now be Rotary Colonels 2 College Foundation. More to come on this!
To succeed academically, students not only need excellent teachers, they also need active, engaged parents or guardians. This program examines ways in which Kentucky educators encourage parental involvement in schools, including strategies that make families feel more connected to their children’s educational experiences and programs that train parents for leadership roles. Panelists: Stu Silberman, executive director, Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence; Rob Carroll, principal, South Heights Elementary School in Henderson County; and Jennifer Anderson, parent of a seventh-grader and a ninth-grader, Rowan County Schools.
Watch Video: http://www.ket.org/tvschedules/episode.php?nola=KEDMA+000302
View interviews of yesterday’s Home Visit Blitz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzjbekxGno&feature=channel_video_title
On Monday, they were attorneys, politicians, non-profit organizers, store owners, professors and business executives.
On Tuesday, they were just people who hefted packs of ice, barbecued chickens, delivered meals, welcomed visitors and more.
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IMG_0348- click on this link to watch a short video of student’s learning chinese.
Union County Board of Education Regular Meeting was held on Monday, May 16th at Uniontown Elementary School in Uniontown, Kentucky. Kevin Sheilley and Betsy Wells-Jones from Northwest Kentucky Forward attended the meeting to discuss the Workforce Survey. The meeting began with FBLA Competition Winners, Governor’s Scholars, District and Regional Elementary Governor’s Cup Winners, and Caleb Ervin received the Dave Shultz High School Excellence National Award (this award is only given to a select few in the country). To top the recognitions off a Chinese Performance lead by the Hu Bing, and Gu Yufang with the Union County Elementary Students was presented to the audience.
An open house in Henderson, Kentucky for a Career and Technical Education Unit at the Henderson County High School will be open to the public February 1st from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. for businesses and students, and the community at large may visit from 4 to 7p.m.
Visitors to the open house will learn about the following programs in which the students will get a hands-on experience for their specific field of interest: accounting, agriculture,automotive technology, business management, construction technology, family and consumer sciences, finance and banking, health science, information technology, machine tool technology, pre-engineering, visual communications and welding technology.
Learn more information by visiting www.hchscte.com.
Ohio Valley’s Got Talent, sponsored by Colonels 2 College, is accepting applications for a talent show to be held on February 26, 2011, at the Fine Arts Center at Henderson Community College, 2660 South Green Street, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Read more: http://northwestky.com/news/be-a-show-off-at-ohio-valleys-got-talent.html
Over the past 25 years, the Kentucky public education system – from pre kindergarten to postsecondary – has made enormous progress. Once considered to be at the bottom of the barrel, the system has moved to the middle of the pack. Today, based on a range of data, Kentucky is recognized as a national leader in improving schools.
At the center of this transformation – advocating, negotiating, and holding together disparate interest groups—have been the citizens who make up the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. We are proud to say that two people from the Northwest KY region are represented on the Prichard Committee, Mr. Scott Davis and Mr. Jon L. Sights. Davis is a member of the Prichard Committee’s Business Leadership Council for Pre-Kindergarten. Sights is a Henderson County school board member.
Learn more about the program here: http://prichblog.blogspot.com/
Energy Manager for Kentucky School Board Association (KSBA), Darrel Pfingston, visited fourth graders today at Spottsville Elementary in Henderson to teach them the importance of energy preservation and how it affects each individual. KSBA, is a nonprofit corporation of school boards from each public school district in Kentucky and works in conjunction with various “energy related” programs such as the Northwest Kentucky Energy Initiative (otherwise known as Plugged In). Plugged In serves the counties of Union, Webster and Henderson and is supported by the three county governments, Northwest Kentucky Forward, Henderson County Chamber of Commerce and Union County First to help promote Northwest Kentucky as a center for energy-related industry, research and workforce development.
To read more: http://www.northwestky.com/news/local-students-energized.html
NWKF’s Regional Education and Workforce Development Coordinator, Betsy Wells-Jones is currently attending a conference in Washington, DC with GRADD (Green River area Development District) to work with partners and consultants to put together a roadmap for the future workforce development initiatives in the Northwest Kentucky region.
The long term goal of the Regional Education and Workforce Development Initiative is to promote cultural change in Northwest Kentucky for its citizens to expect nothing less than educational excellence throughout our region. Community Partnerships will bridge the gap between the once separate school and community ensuring that the regional workforce is prepared for the skills and training necessary to be successful requires planning.
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