Superintendent Weekly Update

from the desk of Kathy Amos

September 13, 2024

BRES Groundbreaking Ceremony

Special thanks to BRES 5th graders for doing a great job reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and participating in the groundbreaking.

Blue Ridge Elementary Groundbreaking for the new addition was a great success! Thank you to NC Senator Ralph Hise, County Manager Lynn Austin, Commissioner Mark Ledford, Harper General Contractors, MPS Architects, Branch Civil and our wonderful BRES faculty, staff and YCS Board of Ed members for a great ceremony.

Fantastic News!

By Chad Aldeman

September 10, 2024

The74

Aldeman: As poverty rises, reading proficiency tends to fall. But it’s not fate. Districts, schools and students nationwide are outperforming what might be expected of them.

See the districts in your state that are outperforming expectations.

"In Yancey County Schools, our well trained, professional teachers do an incredible job everyday of teaching all of our children. Our teachers' high expectations and efforts to teach solid research based reading strategies, increase our students' proficiency scores and make our schools an exceptional public school district in the state and in the nation."

~Kathy Amos, Superintendent of Yancey County Schools

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Which School Districts Do the Best Job of Teaching Kids to Read?

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Constitution Day is September 17th

NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby is inviting NC public school units to join in celebrating Constitution Day on September 17, the anniversary of the formation and signing of the US Constitution. Resources for Constitution Day are available for schools, including speaker material, lesson plans and more. Constitution Day resources can be found here.

Additional instructional materials about our state’s Judicial Branch, including PowerPoint presentations, videos, fact sheets, word searches, coloring sheets and more, can be found here.