Education

  UPDATE (10/19, 11 a.m.) - Eastside Middle School's Sarah Mills was selected as the 2017 Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year.

Mills was honored at the 2017 Valvoline Teacher Acheivement Awards ceremony in the State Capitol Rotunda Wednesday morning.

Continue to check www.pioneernews.net for further updates on Mills and the ceremony.

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 Students at Mount Washington Elementary got to celebrate how super they are during the school’s Superhero Day.

In the morning, local heroes, including police officers and nurses, welcomed the students to the school.

That afternoon, teachers battled it out to the Macarena to see whose dancing powers beat the rest during “Dancing with the Staff.”

    SHEPHERDSVILLE -- The scores will never be where local school officials would like them to be; however, Bullitt County leaders are pleased with the strides made in the recently-released Unbridled Learning state assessment.
    For a fourth straight year, the Bullitt County Public School System has been labeled as proficient.
    And several individual schools made great strides.

 MOUNT WASHINGTON — A new foreign language is being taught in elementary schools: the language of computer programming. 

Coding is the language designers use to instruct a computer program what to do. Through coding, a video game character knows when to jump or when to turn the corner. Coding is also used in website design. A link changes colors when clicked or a drop down menu drops when the mouse hovers over it because of the code written behind it.