Tweet The Shelby County School District has launched a new initiative called the Family Engagement Academy (FEA) to provide families and teacher leaders with opportunities to develop their knowledge and abilities as leaders in order to…
TweetThe Shelby County Board of Education recently passed the fiscal year October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016 budget. According to Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Superintendent of Finance Gary McCombs, the system-wide beginning fund balance of…
TweetEighth-graders in Bethany Bishop’s Family and Consumer Science class at Montevallo Middle School enjoyed participating in the Reality Check program presented by Alabama’s Cooperative Extension Service on Monday, September 21. Students were randomly assigned careers…
TweetMax Cecil, a fourth grader at Mt Laurel Elementary School, is the winner of the 2015 UM Science Festival “Art Competition.” Max is the son of Mt Laurel Elementary art teacher, Alan Cecil. According to…
TweetCole Kinchler, a 2012 graduate of Oak Mountain High School and a current senior at Auburn University, is a recent winner in a statewide competition called Alabama Launchpad. Kinchler is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for…
TweetStudents at Montevallo Middle School commemorated September 11, 2001, by focusing on the positive. After a discussion about the events of that day in seventh and eighth grade Language Arts classes, students were asked to…
TweetAbout 215 Oak Mountain Intermediate students attended breakfast last Thursday in order to discover the identity of the “Mystery Server.” But instead of finding one “Mystery Server” they found several, who also happened to be…
TweetThree students from the Shelby County School District are among the 16,000 students nationwide who have been named 2015 National Merit Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Students who were named semifinalists were Kennedy…
Tweet Shelby County Superintendent Randy Fuller has been selected as a finalist for the Alabama/Classworks 2016 Superintendent of the Year award, sponsored by The School Superintendents of Alabama (SSA) and Classworks. Fuller is one of…
TweetA Vincent High School junior is a published author thanks to a submission in the first annual Books-A-Million Publishing Contest. Melia Burrell entered the contest last spring but wasn’t selected as one of the top…
