Congratulations to Jess Bennett and Ethan Rowe for earning an Amazon Kindle Fire while participating in a fundraiser for our school. 🐉🐉
There will not be a bus running for Dragons Beyond the Bell today.
Students will need to be picked up out front if they stay. Thank you!
Family Engagement Survey
2022-2023
Your child’s school and Save the Children would like feedback! Filling out this survey will help your school and Save the Children learn what worked for you and your family and what we could do better. The information you share may help us serve your community better in the future and may help us get resources to provide your community more programs.
If you have more than one child at this school, please answer with your youngest child in mind.
Family Engagement Survey English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W3BZBVP
Family Engagement Survey Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QTVYXDP
Join us in celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week May 1st-5th🐉💚
Thank you to all of our teachers who go above and beyond to make a difference in our students' lives. We appreciate you!! 🍎
Southeast South-Central Educational (SESC) Cooperative held a recognition lunch Saturday to honor school districts, schools, and individual teachers for their part in the New Teacher Center (NTC) program. This program brought educational coaches into the Harlan Independent to help teachers of various experience levels with guidance in planning and teaching practices. Services were also provided to strengthen other teachers to take on instructional coaching roles as well as inform administrative staff on best practices to improve student achievement.
Harlan Independent has been a part of the NTC program since it began in the 2020-2021 academic year. This year marks the end of the grant that provided the funding for the program and it was a time for celebration. Dr. Gregory Edens attended the event to represent Harlan Independent and was awarded with a certificate of recognition and a gift card for his participation in the program.
SESC and the NTC program will be recognized on the national level for the work they have done in the southeast region of Kentucky. The data gleaned from the program will be used to inform and support other rural educational programs aimed at providing teacher support and professional learning community development. Dr. Edens stated, “SESC has provided assistance within our school district to strengthen my teaching practices and helped me to provide even better educational opportunities for my students.”
Harlan Elementary School 2nd Grade students enjoyed a fun field trip to the Knoxville Zoo yesterday! 🦓🦒
Reminder: there will be NO bus transportation this evening for Dragons Beyond the Bell. Students must be picked up. Thank you!
Parents, families, and staff: Make your voices heard! Please complete the following survey regarding family engagement at your school! This survey will help increase open communication, learning opportunities, and shared decision-making power across the Kentucky education system.
http://tinyurl.com/KYCollabSurvey
Reminder: there is NO Dragons Beyond the Bell today. 🐉
Dragons Beyond the Bell will not be providing bus transportation home on Thursday, April 13th.
Students will need to be picked up out front if they stay.
Dragons Beyond the Bell will be closed Wednesday, April 12th and Wednesday April 26th.
Congratulations to our 3/4th grade Dragon Academy students! 🐉
The Harlan Green Dragons Football Program will honor Andrew this Friday night 7:30(kickoff)at the field. The lights will burn for 80 minutes(his jersey number). Anyone is welcome to attend. Please continue to keep this family and community in your prayers.
HES Students had an "egg-citing" time popping for letters and questions! Save the Children kindergarten and first-grade students popped a balloon of their choice and matched the lowercase letter, from inside the balloon, with the uppercase letter on the egg. Second through fourth grade, they popped a balloon of choice and hunted the egg that matched the correct answer to the question they received about the parts of a book! After finding the correct letter/answer, they received a book, a candy-filled egg, and a chocolate bunny!!
Save the Children
Mrs. Jessica Fields
Mrs. Samantha Brackett
In the last few weeks, Mrs. Stapleton’s science rotation classes have been reviewing the Engineering Design Process. Students in 1st & 2nd grade read “How to Catch a Leprechaun, “ and 3rd & 4th grade read “How to Catch the Easter Rabbit.” All groups planned out their traps and then created prototypes of their traps. Kindergarten helped solve the problem of “an itch on Mrs. Stapleton’s back.” They created “backscratchers” to solve the problem.
Congratulations to our HES Science Fair Winners! 🧪🔬🧫
Overall:
1st - Vivian Smith
2nd - Amelia Chasteen
3rd - Alivia Eversole
Team 1:
1st - Kelsey Maggard
2nd - Braylee Couch
3rd - Gabi Burkhart
Team 2:
1st - Jurnee Howard
2nd - Bella Lemar
3rd - Lily Dean
Team 3:
1st - Landon Smith
2nd - Adlee Fields
3rd - Ethan Scearse
Congratulations to our STEAM Night Lego Challenge Winners: Andrew Alred and Ryder Helton.
Andrew won the creative category, and Ryder won the building category.
Thank you to our families that participated in STEAM Night. The students had fun and were engaged in all activities! 🐉
Congratulations to the following Dedicated Dragons! These students had perfect attendance for the third nine weeks! 🐉
Reminder: There will be NO Dragons Beyond the Bell Tuesday, March 28th due to STEAM Night. Come join the fun today at 5:30 pm!
STEAM Night at Harlan Elementary will be tomorrow, March 28th, from 5:30-7:30 pm! Join us for fun activities such as making Ooblek, participating in escape rooms, and creating pop-its for your pockets!
