Last week, the Kentucky Innovative Teacher Learning Network announced the 10 educators selected to participate in its 2023-2024 Innovative Teacher Fellowship program.
The committee selected Business and leadership teacher Elise Carter to represent Highlands High School as a cohort member.
Carter said: “I am so excited to start coming up with ideas to get innovative and to better the business program.”
The Division of Innovative Learning has been working to support the vision of United We Learn. The projects and initiatives are the division’s current efforts to create more vibrant learning experiences for students, encourage innovation in our schools, and create a bold new future through collaboration with communities.
Carter hopes to accomplish real-life learning and proactively introduce new teaching strategies and methods into the classroom.
“Getting students to take what they are learning in the classroom and implement it in the workforce to create something that is almost like a template using social media and linked in an immediate community to make connections and see why they are learning in a book.”
The greatest motivator for Carter is seeing her students succeed. She has worked hard to make the highlands an amazing learning environment for her students.
“When I see kids getting scholarships and when they send me messages and their parents send me messages saying ‘you helped my kid.”’
Administrator Brian Robinson said: “We are very excited and proud that Mrs. Carter will be working with other educators from throughout the state to discuss innovative projects that can be shared with schools. It is commendable that she is willing to go above and beyond to continue to improve and share her practice.