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Calendar set for 2017-2018
The 2017-2018 school calendar was approved by Hopkins County Board of Education on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The calendar starts with staff development days on Aug. 1 and 3, and Opening Day for staff on Aug. 2.
The first day of school for students will be Wednesday, Aug. 9. Fall Break will be Oct. 9-13. Click HERE to view the full calendar.
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Hopkins County Family YMCA is a Go365 Beacon facility, offering  members 10 points per day for checking in when they work out. Beacon is a smartphone app that is used with Bluetooth and automatically checks you in when you go there to work out. Go365 is the new name for Humana Vitality. For more information, please see the flyers below:
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| Hopkins County Central's National Honor Society traveled to Washington, D.C., at the end of January to attend the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. This educational trip has become a tradition at the school every four years. Students also took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, participated in an inaugural gala and visited the U.S. Capitol, Smithsonian museums, U.S. Holocaust Museum, a variety of memorials and monuments, and more. |
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Do's & Don'ts of Teaching Black History
Classroom Resources: Race and Ethnicity
(from Teaching Tolerance)
How do you ensure students get the most out of black history and Black History Month? Here are some suggestions.
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- Incorporate black history year-round, not just in February. Use the month of February to dig deeper into history and make connections with the past.
- Continue Learning. Explore how to provide an in-depth and thorough understanding of black history. Textbooks are notorious for omitting information about the struggles of communities, and what they include is limited, so use the textbook as one of many resources. While exploring multiple resources, allow for opportunities to learn along with your students.
- Reinforce to students that "black" history is American history. Make black history relevant to all students.
- Relate lessons to other parts of your curriculum, so that focusing on a leader, like Fred Shuttlesworth, expands upon rather than diverts from your curriculum. By the time February comes around, the context of the struggle for civil rights and social justice should be familiar to students if you have already addressed such issues across the curriculum.
- Connect issues in the past to current issues to make history relevant to students' lives. For example, ask students to gather information with a focus on what social disparities exist today and how a particular leader has worked to change society.
- Include the political and social context of the community's struggle for social justice. For example, talk about Daisy Bates' political affiliations and her political ideologies. You see her bravery not as just a personal act but as coming out of community determination.
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- Stop your "regular" curriculum, to do a separate lesson on Rosa Parks, on the Civil Rights Act or on Martin Luther King Jr. This trivializes and marginalizes anything you are teaching, making these leaders a token of their culture and ethnicity. Students will get the message that the diversion it is not as important as the "regular" curriculum.
- Decontextualize heroes or holidays, separating them from the larger social movement or historical place. Great leaders don't make history all by themselves. For example, if you teach about James Farmer, you must also address the work of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Freedom Rides.
- Focus on superficial cultural traits based on stereotypes. It's ok to celebrate black music, but teachers should also explore the political and social contexts that give rise to musical forms like hip hop.
- Talk about black history in solely "feel-good" language, or as a thing of the past. This fails to help students examine how racism manifests itself today.
- Limit the presentation to lectures and reading. Be sure to allow students an opportunity for discussion and reflection.
- Teach with little or inaccurate information. Review resources to make sure they don't promote a Eurocentric perspective, which may misrepresent historic figures and social movements.
- Shy away from controversial, ambiguous, or unresolved issues. Share the real-life experiences about racial realities in developmentally appropriate ways.
Provided by Roneshia Evans, human relations coordinator. Adapted from material by Pat Russo of the Curriculum & Instruction Department at SUNY Oswego. (Sept. 2007)
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#PathwayDay
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| Sophomores from Hopkins County Central and Madisonville North Hopkins high schools visited Hopkins County Career & Technology Center for #PathwayDay. Students toured the building and spent time in each of the six career areas at the center - Automotive Technology, Business Education, Engineering, Technology Education, Health Science, Industrial Maintenance and Information Technology. |
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5th in the Nation!
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| Madisonville North Hopkins High School cheerleaders placed 5th in the nation at the Universal Cheer Association's National High School Cheerleading Championship held Feb. 10-11 at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. They competed in Division II Small Varsity. |
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Kindergarten Registration
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Preschool Screening / Registration
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In Case of Emergency
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| Madisonville Fire Department taught an Emergency Procedures class recently at Hopkins County Career & Technology Center. Students learned about fire safety, emergency response and hazardous materials. This class is part of an effort to train these students as First Responders so they can be certified as a Community Emergency Response Team. Students were provided hands-on training on the use of fire extinguishers and then entered the trailer for household fire training. In addition, the trailer is a simulator for tornadoes. Jeff Baldwin with the Madisonville Fire Department assisted with this program and coordinated the hands-on activities. |
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Upcoming Events
March 6
Board of Education Meeting, 5:30 p.m.
March 12
Daylight Savings Time Begins at 2 a.m.
March 20
Board of Education Meeting, 5:30 p.m.
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HCEF grant applications available
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 Hopkins County Education Foundation Mini-Grant.
Applications are due Friday, April 14, 2017. Applications may be scanned and emailed to Jennifer Luttrell, sent to the Board of Education Central Office via interoffice mail, or mailed to 320 S. Seminary St., Madisonville, KY 42431.
Please click HERE for the application.
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Retirement Paperwork
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If you plan to retire at the end of this year, you are encouraged to complete your paperwork ahead of time. This is a busy time for both KRS and KTRS retirement systems, and the sooner the paperwork is submitted the better. Please contact Payroll at Central Office to schedule a time for them to complete the employer portion of the retirement paperwork.
Cindy Clark-Classified Payroll-KRS
Janice Gillispie-Certified Payroll-KTRS
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March 13 set as make-up day
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The 2016-2017 school calendar has been amended. March 13, 2017, will be a make-up day for the snow day on Jan. 5.
The last day for students will remain May 17. However, the Staff Development Day (formerly March 13) has been moved to May 18 with Closing Day on May 19.
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Please spread the word that Hopkins County Schools is now hiring substitute teachers. The qualifications include the following:
- Minimum of 64 college hours from an accredited college;
- Minimum of 2.5 Grade Point Average;
- Cannot have criminal record;
- Complete mandatory online training offered by Hopkins County School.
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Preschool Family Literacy Night Planned
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Preschool-Head Start District-Wide Family Literacy Night will be Thursday, Feb. 23, at Earlington Elementary School from 6-7 p.m.
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| Hopkins County Schools celebrated the 100th Day of School on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Click the image above to see a slideshow showing some images from our elementary schools that day. |
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| The annual Super Saturdays program was held Jan. 21 and 28 at Madisonville Community College. It is sponsored by MCC's Workforce Solutions and Hopkins County Schools Gifted and Talented Services. |
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Top Results:
NJROTC National Academic Exam
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Madisonville North Hopkins NJROTC placed 1st out of the 136 teams that entered the NJROTC National Academic Exam from Area 9. MNHHS finished 12th nationally.
There were more than 600 schools across the nation, plus a few abroad, that entered 1,746 teams in this year's NAE. MNHHS team members are Anna Morgan, Tatiana Jones, Jasmine Todd, Alexa Chandler and Mikayla Oertner.
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JROTC:
They Know
the Drill
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| The Hopkins County Central High School JROTC drill team won 3rd in the Advanced Unarmed IDR event at the Scott County High School Drill Competition in Georgetown on Jan. 31. Also, freshman Delena Gossett placed 8th out of about 100 freshmen and sophomores during the drill knockout competition. |
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