Woodfill Elementary students present the Wildly Important Goals they’ve chosen for this year. Four students from Woodfill Elementary School shared a new project that has engaged students in all grades. Ellie, Carly, Charity and Vinny, ranging from first to fifth grade, presented their WIGs at the September meeting of the Fort Thomas Independent Schools Board. […]
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Four Highlands Students Earn Highest Possible ACT Scores
Margot Seidel, Adam Groneck and Alexander Harrison celebrate achieving the highest score possible on the ACT. (Will Burnham also was honored but was unable to attend the board meeting). By Robin Gee, City Council Beat Editor Four Highlands High School students have joined an exclusive club. They are among the less than one percent of […]
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Highlands High School Student Attends Spirit of America Conference
Highlands High School freshman Julianna Russ recently attended the Spirit of America Youth Leadership Conference in Valley Forge, PA in April 2018. Juli was awarded a scholarship to attend the conference from the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Freedoms Foundation. The scholarship included tuition, board, room, and travel expenses. Juli was chosen for the scholarship […]
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Highlands High Student Puts Classroom Skills to the Real-World Test
Highlands senior Thomas Wade works with a student client to customize a tool he designed to assist with communication. Thanks to a unique collaboration, students in Fort Thomas schools are using the technology skills they’ve learned to address real-world problems to help others in the classroom and the world beyond. Highlands High School senior Thomas […]
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Fort Thomas Independent Schools Students Exhibit Art Work
Students from Fort Thomas Independent Schools will have their artwork on display at Highlands High School from Friday, April 20, through Sunday, April 22, 2018. Art teacher, Colin Shadwell, said the district investment into the arts will be on full display. “It is a unique opportunity to experience an art form that isn’t performance based,” […]
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Fort Thomas Independent Schools Names Elementary Assistant Principal
Fort Thomas Independent Schools has selected John Gesenhues to serve as a district-wide elementary assistant principal, working with Woodfill and Johnson elementary schools. Gesenhues began his teaching career in 2006 at Woodfill Elementary, initially as a 5th grade teacher for four years, followed by eight years as a 4th grade teacher. Earning his bachelor’s degree […]
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Fort Thomas Independent Schools Named Top District in Kentucky for 2018
The Fort Thomas Independent Schools district was just named the best school district in the Commonwealth for 2018. Backgroundchecks.org announced their ranking of the Top School Districts in Kentucky for 2018, which had Fort Thomas at the top of the list. The metrics used that contributed to the ranking were student performance (math and reading […]
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National Education Leaders Gather Ideas for Fort Thomas Schools
Assistant Principal Peter Winkler and teachers Megan Boimann-Hennies and Karen Kampschmidt share what they learned at High Tech High Fort Thomas schools’ mission states that the district will provide learning experiences that “foster creativity, curiosity and innovation, while inspiring all students to pursue lifelong learning and become productive members of the global community.” The mission […]
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Threat at Highlands Middle School Deemed “Not Credible”
Last night, reports of a potential threat at Highlands Middle School were investigated by Fort Thomas Police and Fort Thomas Independent Schools. That threat, which was spoken verbally from one student to another, was not deemed a serious threat by police after speaking with all of the parties involved. The school district took immediate action […]
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Fort Thomas Schools Painting Portrait of a Graduate
School board members (l to r) John Weyer, Brad Fennell, Superintendent Karen Cheser, Jeff Beach and Lisa Duckworth discuss the way forward for “Portrait of a Graduate” Kindergartners in Fort Thomas schools will enter the workforce in 2034, a time that seems far in the future, yet is coming fast, said Superintendent Karen Cheser. Right […]