Henry.kyschools.us Website Review

MISSION STATEMENT: Empowering leaders and life-long learners for an ever-changing world. VISION: A district of educational excellence, the pride of our community. Parents often read their children a bedtime story, but when Mom is an astrophysicist and Dad works for NASA, they want to share not only their love of reading with their children, but also their love of math. That mom, Laura Bilodeau Overdeck, launched Bedtime Math in 2012 with a website and a playful daily math problem for kids to do with their parents, much like a bedtime story. When parents responded positively to her idea, she wrote a series of books. She used the profits from those books to develop a free after-school math club that provides complete kits full of materials and supplies for four eight-week When Melissa Hitt, a special education teacher at Campbellsburg Elementary School (CES), heard about the free program, she knew it Shelby Johnson currently serves as a district-wide social worker for Henry County Public Schools, servicing all three elementary schools, Johnson graduated from Henry County High School in 2013, then earned a Bachelor’s degree in social work from Eastern Kentucky University. She recently gained her Master’s degree in social work from Campbellsville University, where she also completed a number of hands-on internships in a variety of settings. She is currently pursuing her certification for social work, which will lead to her license after she completes the required number of supervised hours in the field. Students in Tara McMahan’s community service clas* at Henry County Middle School were recently tasked with identifying a group of people, charity or project that was “near or dear to their hearts.” Because two of the students in the clas*, Mason King and Jacob Jeffries, had previously participated in projects that helped the homeless, they suggested doing something that would benefit the homeless in our area. The rest of the clas* agreed, and soon they were