Tag: Fort Thomas Independent Schools
Fort Thomas Schools Chart Course for Improvement
The Comprehensive District Improvement Plan provides goals and strategies for the journey ahead. While pleased to be designated the top district in Kentucky by Niche.com recently, Fort Thomas Independent Schools personnel are already looking ahead to the future. Kentucky schools traditionally have received strong direction on school performance goals and measurements, but changes and new […]
Fort Thomas Independent Schools Leading Tech Boom in Region
A University of Kentucky graduate with a degree in English education and a minor in journalism, Diana McGhee, primarily an educator, teaches a journalism class at Highlands High School in addition to her job as the district’s director of technology and information. McGhee has worked for Fort Thomas Independent Schools since 1989 when she was […]
New Fort Thomas Assistant Superintendent, Bradford, Makes an Impact
Recently Elected to Transylvania University Athletics Hall of Fame Recently in Lexington Kentucky, the Transylvania University Athletics Department inducted five stellar athletes into its 2017 Pioneer Hall of Fame class. Among them was Bill Bradford, who attended the school with a diving scholarship and competed as a diver for its swimming and diving team for […]
Highlands Teacher Earns Financial Literacy Award
From balancing a checkbook to making a budget to planning for retirement, the lessons of personal finance can stay with students for a lifetime. At the October meeting of the Fort Thomas Independent School Board, Marlee Barton, a Family and Consumer Science teacher at Highlands High School, was honored for her work teaching students the […]
Michelle Chalk’s Classmates Remember Her During Homecoming Dance
What a wonderful community is Fort Thomas. Michelle Chalk would have attended her first high school dance last weekend it not for the tragic accident that occurred in August of this year in Fort Thomas. But that didn’t stop her classmates from helping her family celebrate the occasion. RELATED: Listen: Keith Chalk Talks About Their […]
Fort Thomas Schools Drive for School Supplies for Houston
HHS teacher Megan Boimann-Hennies, who is organizing the supplies drive. The tragic effects of Hurricane Harvey are being keenly felt in Houston and the surrounding area. Many aid agencies such as the Red Cross are looking for donations to aid the clean up effort but you can also help closer to home as Fort Thomas […]
Superintendent Outlines Strategies and Goals for 2017-18
by Robin Gee District goals support the mission of the Fort Thomas Independent School District by putting an emphasis on student progress and readiness, measurement of outcomes and increased communication and collaboration, according to Superintendent Karen Cheser. At the August School Board meeting, she shared three District Goals, identified standards needed to support the goals […]
WATCH: New Superintendent Welcomes Fort Thomas Independent Back to School!
Fort Thomas Independent Schools Superintendent, Dr. Karen Cheser, and Woodfill Elementary first-grader, Buddy L., are both excited for their first day of school! Cheser will be available to meet with the public every Monday at Fort Thomas Coffee. Welcome back, everyone!
Fort Thomas Independent Schools Embrace College and Career Readiness
Highlands High School students work at the technology-based Help Desk. New state requirements have required Fort Thomas Independent Schools to make some subtle changes in recent years. In particular, there has been a change in focus from college readiness to college and career readiness. Teachers have embraced this change and the outcomes speak for themselves. […]
