The Kentucky Division of Training (KDE) has launched the names of the 67 individuals who have been requested to serve on the brand new Kentucky United We Be taught Council.
The council will help the three massive concepts of United We Be taught, the state’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for public training in Kentucky. This imaginative and prescient builds round three massive concepts: making a extra vibrant expertise for each pupil, encouraging innovation in our colleges – particularly relating to evaluation – and making a daring new future for Kentucky’s colleges by collaboration with our communities.
The council will coordinate three standing committees – Creating Vibrant Studying Experiences, Accelerating Innovation and Constructing a Daring New Future with Communities – that meet often to advance work on the council’s missions and deliverables. It additionally will accomplice with KDE and the Kentucky Board of Training to advance the work specified by the United We Be taught report.
“We actually appreciated those that utilized to hitch this council,” Commissioner of Training Jason E. Glass stated. “We had a wide selection of people that have been prepared to commit their time and experience to assist drive the three massive concepts behind United We Be taught ahead. We hope as we transfer forward with this work, our colleges, districts and KDE will proceed to foster extra and deeper relationships with households and their communities to search out which finest practices can hold training bettering within the Commonwealth.”
These named to the council embody educators, directors, members of the family, college students and neighborhood members from throughout Kentucky. The folks and the sectors they are going to signify embody:
- Nisha Ajana, pupil, Fayette County
- Rachel Albright, educator, Ohio Valley Academic Cooperative
- Rader Barnes, pupil, Jessamine County
- Darlene Barnes, household, Jessamine County
- Wallace Caleb Bates, pupil, Japanese Kentucky College
- Brigitte Blom, neighborhood, Prichard Committee for Tutorial Excellence
- Noah Brown, pupil, Pike County
- Becky Burgett, neighborhood, Kentucky Faculty Boards Affiliation, Prichard Committee for Tutorial Excellence, Gallatin County
- Eddie Campbell, educator and Kentucky Training Affiliation
- Marcia Carmichael-Murphy, household, Jefferson County
- Michelle Chappell, educator, Henderson Neighborhood School
- Penny Christian, household, Fayette County
- Susan Cintra, neighborhood, Kentucky Training Affiliation
- Robin Cochran, educator, Washington County
- Jerry Cooper, neighborhood, Cognia
- Alfonso De Torres Núñez, educator, Jefferson County
- Anne DeMott, former educator and now pupil, College of Kentucky
- Elizabeth Dinkins, educator, Bellarmine College Faculty of Training
- Susan Dugle, neighborhood, retired educator and member of the Kentucky Coalition for Advancing Training
- Heather Dunn, educator, Kenton County
- Justin Dunning, pupil, Lyon County
- Raima Dutt, pupil, Jefferson County
- Hannah Edelen, former educator and now pupil, College of Kentucky
- Betty Edwards, neighborhood, former educator, Particular Olympics Unified Champion Faculties, Nationwide Training Leaders Community
- Holly Elmore, household, Washington County
- Suzanne Farmer, educator, Danville Unbiased
- Elaine Farris, former educator, Shelbyville
- Jim Flynn, educator, Kentucky Affiliation of Faculty Superintendents
- Azurdee Garland, neighborhood, Kentucky Division of Juvenile Justice
- Audrey Gilbert, pupil and the Kentucky Pupil Voice Staff, Frankfort Unbiased
- Brooke Gill, neighborhood, Prichard Committee
- Travis Hamby, educator, Allen County
- Shelly Hammons, household, Daviess County
- Amy Harris, educator, Williamstown Unbiased
- Sarah Hatton, educator, Adair County
- Michael Hesketh, neighborhood, Shelby County
- Adam Hicks, educator, Shelby County
- Jenny Hobson, household, Berea Unbiased
- Cassie Home, educator, Franklin County
- Brandy Howard, household and educator, Bullitt County
- Erika Hranicky, household and educator, Fayette County
- Tracy Huelsman, educator, Shelby County
- Jessica Jenkins, household, Berea Unbiased
- Kerry Markham, neighborhood, Madisonville
- Shiryl McAdams, educator and household, Daviess County
- Solyana Mesfin, pupil, College of Louisville
- Julie Monarch, enterprise, Cloverport Unbiased
- April Mullins-Datko, household, Berea Unbiased
- Lonnie Nixon, educator, Berea Unbiased
- Arivia Parks, household, Jefferson County
- Julia Pile, neighborhood, Boone County
- Will Powers, educator, Pupil Alliance for Psychological Well being Innovation and Motion
- Lauralyn Randles, enterprise, American Printing Home for the Blind
- Edna Schack, household, Morehead
- Caryn Scheiding, educator, Williamstown Unbiased
- Renee Scott, educator and incapacity advocate, Kentucky Division of Training
- Robb Smith, educator, Kentucky Affiliation of Academic Cooperatives
- Katie Smith, educator, Grayson County
- Rose Snell, pupil, Madison County
- Whitney Stevenson, educator, Fayette County
- Kathy Stovall, educator and neighborhood member, Louisville
- Aaron Thompson, educator, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Training
- Ernestine Weems, enterprise, Japanese Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program
- RaShaun West, household, Fayette County
- Bentley White, pupil, Kentucky Faculty for the Deaf
- Carrie Wilkerson, educator, Daviess County
- Kris Williams, educator, Kentucky Neighborhood and Technical School System
The hassle is supported with funds from the 2022 Aggressive Grants for State Assessments award from the U.S. Division of Training, which can assist advance improvements to maneuver the state’s evaluation and accountability system towards a competency-based training mannequin.