The Board Brief - November 17, 2025

Helpful Highlights

• During the regular meeting, the board had four recognitions. The board first recognized Benson Adams, second grade students at Southside Elementary, as the 2025 Superintendent’s Holiday Card Contest Winner. We love Benson’s “Happy Holidays from the Hive!” design. The board then recognized Abigail Caine for qualifying for the KHSAA State Championship in Golf. Next, the board recognized Addie Moore, senior at Woodford County High School, for her third consecutive KHSAA Class 3A State Championship. Lastly, Mr. Ryan Asher, WCPS Chief Academic Officer, was recognized for receiving the Values Driven Award of Excellence from Cognia, a non-profit organization that provides accreditation and certification to educational institutions.  

• Mr. Ryan Wilson and Ms. Amanda Nugent, Huntertown Elementary School, shared highlights from Huntertown for this school year. Ms. Nugent shared a quote with the board that their quote of the year is “If you're gonna be here, BE HERE!” She shared three goals for the school: 

  1. Be the North Star

     • Creating a school where people want to be and people want to come see. Structures around Project based learning, exhibitions of learning, deeper learning, and Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) to build a culture of respect in the school.

  2. Green Light Culture 

     • Allowing for teachers to try new things to reach standards

  3. Destruction (Pack) of Wildcats

     • Coming through to do big things as a pack, or destruction, or wildcats.

• Third-grade students in Ms. Stakelin's class at Huntertown shared their project-based learning experience, which involves corresponding with pen pals in Pennsylvania. This project is helping students develop proper writing skills and learn how to express themselves through language. The project has also included a collaborative effort with the Woodford County Library to provide access to books, as well as a visit from a local mail carrier who explained the mail sorting and delivery process. The project will culminate in a virtual meeting via Google Meet, allowing the students to communicate with and meet their pen pals.

• Fifth-grade students in Ms. Gooslin’s class recently presented their publishing project, titled "From Me to We: A Collection of Community Stories from Versailles." The initiative began with a visit from local business owner, Becca Lowe. Students then moved through a multi-step process: interviewing local community members, followed by synthesizing the information they gathered. Excerpts from their resulting book were shared, including a passage by Cooper Chism about his father’s journey to Team U.S.A., playing baseball in Taiwan, and one by Sam Crawford about his grandmother, who was St. Leo’s first kindergarten teacher. The completed book will be accessible at the Woodford County Library.

Need More Details:

• Skim the November 17th agenda.
• Watch the video recording. 
• Read the official minutes, which will be posted within the agenda of the next board meeting.