Fiscal Court recognizes Trimble principals at school board meeting

Trimble County Judge-Executive John Ogburn attended the October meeting of Trimble County School Board to read a proclamation acknowledging October as National School Principals Month.

Ogburn recognized each of the county’s school principals for their “hard work, commitment and innovative leadership to inspire, support and guide our students and educators toward success.”

“By recognizing the contributions of our school principals, we reaffirm our commitment to the education of our youth and the betterment of our community,” Ogburn said.

“We, Board of Education of Trimble County Schools, proudly acknowledge your unwavering commitment to educational growth and well-being of our students and staff. Your visionary leadership, relentless pursuit of educational excellence, fostering a positive learning environment have a profound impact on our school community,” said Superintendent Todd Neace.

In other business:

• Jason Adkins, CEO of Ohio Valley Educational Co-op, provided an update to the board on how the Trimble County education community has been served by the co-op the past year. Nearly $77,000 in academic support was received throughout the past year in areas of early childhood education, the iLead Academy, school nutrition services, stipend-reward for STEM teacher training in a program called Teach Tech KY as well as other areas.

Adkins noted that the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) also received a $1,000 grant to pursue their activities.

• Dr. Molly McComas shared with the board results of testing and professional development within the schools. She noted that each principal is going deeper in the learning commitment “The Raider Way,” which represents Trimble County’s vision for the 21st century skills, character traits, cognitive skills and/or social-emotional skills that learners need to succeed in college, career and life.

She said the purpose of the program to students, families, and community members is to engage learners in purposeful and meaningful ways that will enable them to build their capacity in demonstrating these competencies throughout their educational experiences in Trimble County Schools. “The Raider Way” contains six competency components: communicator, collaborator, critical thinker/innovator, empowered learner, contributing citizen and resilient learner. Principals are planning their teaching around these components.

• Reported that in recent Career Technical Education testing, Trimble County schools not only scored above the state average, but also above surrounding schools in most of the areas of testing.

Trimble Board of Education’s next meeting is 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15.