A look at what’s going on in the field of education.

BGHS teachers earn leadership award

Two Bowling Green High School teachers were honored last week with the fourth regional Kentucky Outstanding Civic Education Leadership Award.

Ron Prieskorn and Olivia Perdue and 14 other regional winners were rewarded for demonstrating outstanding leadership in the classroom by promoting and strengthening civic education and providing students the opportunity to be engaged in their communities, according to a news release.

“Having worked with their Renaissance class at Bowling Green High School on improving city issues, it is a special honor to award them,” Kentucky Secretary of State Elaine Walker said in a news release. “I know firsthand their commitment to empowering students through projects that increase student engagement through improving their community.”

‘Play of Season’ wins $1,000 for Dragons

Warren Central High School is the recipient of a $1,000 donation for winning Bluegrass Cellular’s Battles in the Bluegrass “Play of the Season” contest.

Battles in the Bluegrass is a high school sports program that features four rivalry basketball games in central Kentucky. Throughout the season, basketball fans log on to www.battlesinthe

bluegrass.com to review video highlights after each featured game and place their vote for Play of the Game.

The winning Play of the Season, which garnered more than 80 percent of the total votes, occurred during Warren Central’s game against Bowling Green High School on Jan. 28. The play featured the Dragons’ Vic Smith executing a behind-the-back layup on a fast break with one minute left in the game.

Richardsville student sings in Disney show

Carter Ford, 10, a fifth-grade student at Richardsville Elementary School, performed Saturday with Orchestra Kentucky, the Orchestra Kentucky Chorale and original Disney performers from Walt Disney World. Carter was the only child in the Disney-themed show and sang “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” from “The Lion King.”

Two BGTC professors to help design exam

Bowling Green Technical College faculty members William Spencer Cole and Angela Harlan have been chosen by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to assist in the development of the NCLEX-PN exam.

Under the guidance of its membership, NCSBN has developed two license examinations used by its member boards to test the entry-level nursing competence of candidates for nursing licenses.

Cole will travel in April to Chicago to join other nursing faculty and administrators in writing questions for the national exam, and Harlan will join a similar group in May.

Cole serves as an associate professor of nursing at the BGTC Main Campus Practical Nursing Program and Harlan serves as associate professor and assistant program coordinator of the BGTC Glasgow Campus RN and PN programs.

Warren Central FFA excels in competition

The Warren Central High School Future Farmers of America chapter competed at the Regional FFA competition on March 1 with the following results: Zach Haley, first place Creed Contest; Nikki Mac Isaac, first place fruit and vegetable impromptu; Joanna Porter, first place greenhouse impromptu; Rachel Haley, second place floral impromptu; Gabby Wayne, second place sheep impromptu.

All of these students will be competing at the state FFA competition in June.

WCHS students place at language festival

The following Warren Central High School students placed at the WKU Foreign Language Festival:

Recitation of Literary Passage I, Lyric Reynolds, second place; Dialogue I, Vinnie Favoroso and Keiti Rueter, second place; Listening Proficiency, Andreana Bridges, second place; and Reading Proficiency, Keiti Rueter, first place; and Terione Patrick, third place.

BG’s Miller selected for study in Germany

Ben Miller of Bowling Green High School was recently selected to participate in the American Association of Teachers of German study abroad trip to Germany this summer.

He was among more than 25,000 students who participated in the AATG test, and is one of 39 students from the United States to earn the trip. He will spend more than three weeks in Germany with all expenses paid.

Rich Pond 6th-grader honored with award

The 2010-11 Kentucky Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award was recently presented to Jordan Marie McElroy, a sixth-grader at Rich Pond Elementary School.

She earned the award after being nominated to the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education based upon her academic standing, volunteerism and outstanding community involvement.