We are getting ready for our next Community Conversation, which will focus on education options for children from birth to grade 12, as the area gets ready to send its children back to school for the 2025–2026 academic year (where did the summer go?).
If you go:
What: LINK nky Housing Community Conversation event
When: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 9.
Where: Kenton County Public Library’s Erlanger branch
Sign up for the free event here.
For those who are unfamiliar, our Community Conversations events are held in connection with our bi-monthly print super issues, which are sent by direct mail to every home in Northern Kentucky. The super issue and its accompanying Community Conversation will cover the same subjects, but the event will be designed to resemble a live, in-person newscast, with audience members able to ask questions and engage with the panelists in real time.
You can ask questions and bring information with you that evening as we also have representatives from local organizations that offer services and assistance with housing.
We asked those with innovative and intriguing answers to the educational problems facing Northern Kentucky to the event on October 9. The event begins promptly at 6 p.m., but you can attend as early as 5 p.m. to browse these materials at the Kenton County Public Library’s Erlanger branch.
Evan Millward, a media personality and former WCPO anchor, modifies our discussions, ensuring that we remain focused on constructive solutions and concepts that could help the community as a whole.
Mary Kay Connolly, the director of Read Ready Covington, an early literacy collaborative that is growing to other Northern Kentucky cities, will be the speaker at the Education event.
Additionally, you will hear from Hannah Mayle, a kindergarten teacher in Newport who has twelve years of experience teaching in elementary schools. She claims to have a particular place in her heart for her kindergarteners, despite having experience as a fourth-grade teacher and an interventionist.
Jenny Watson is planned to join us as well. Watson is EducateNKY’s president of family power and early learning. She has almost twenty years of experience in school administration and instructional leadership, most of which was in Boone County.
We are looking for a parent from Northern Kentucky who would be interested in serving on the panel as we continue to organize the event. Someone who can discuss how they have collaborated with educators and schools to support their children’s education and why it has benefited their learning would be very appreciated.
If you or someone you know is the parent of a Northern Kentucky student and would be interested in being on the panel, email me at [email protected].
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