☺️ Nothing beats the joy of learning and playing together! 💙💚
Belle Elementary students had a blast during the filming of an upcoming Communities In Schools West Virginia video with the West Virginia Department of Education. 🎥✨
The theme is “Keep the Ball Rolling,” and these smiles say it all—when students’ needs are met, they’re ready to grow, succeed, and enjoy every moment at school. 🌟
Check out these #BehindTheScenes photos of our awesome students in action! 📸😁
👉 https://bit.ly/4851ClJ
Belle Elementary students had a blast during the filming of an upcoming Communities In Schools West Virginia video with the West Virginia Department of Education. 🎥✨
The theme is “Keep the Ball Rolling,” and these smiles say it all—when students’ needs are met, they’re ready to grow, succeed, and enjoy every moment at school. 🌟
Check out these #BehindTheScenes photos of our awesome students in action! 📸😁
👉 https://bit.ly/4851ClJ
*September 8th — Curriculum Board Meeting*
The Kanawha County Schools Board of Education will host its monthly curriculum board meeting at 4 p.m. today. The meeting is open to the public. This meeting will be livestreamed, and can be viewed at the link here — 👇
https://kcs.kana.k12.wv.us/o/kcs/page/kcs-live-stream
The agenda can be found here —👇
🌟 Path to the Stage: Week 2 Spotlight! 🌟
At Kanawha City Elementary, we were reminded this week that the further you go on your path, the more chances you have to guide and inspire others. 💙
One of the older students at KCE walked hand-in-hand with two younger classmates, leading them down the hallway to their classroom—just like older students once did for them a few short years ago.
That’s what Path to the Stage is all about: building confidence, giving back, and creating a community where every step forward makes it easier for someone else to begin their journey. 🎭✨
👏 We’re proud of these students and can’t wait to see how they continue to shine—on stage and in life!
At Kanawha City Elementary, we were reminded this week that the further you go on your path, the more chances you have to guide and inspire others. 💙
One of the older students at KCE walked hand-in-hand with two younger classmates, leading them down the hallway to their classroom—just like older students once did for them a few short years ago.
That’s what Path to the Stage is all about: building confidence, giving back, and creating a community where every step forward makes it easier for someone else to begin their journey. 🎭✨
👏 We’re proud of these students and can’t wait to see how they continue to shine—on stage and in life!
📣 KCS Community Town Hall with Dr. Paula Potter — George Washington Feeder Area
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Thursday, September 4th
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍George Washington High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the George Washington High School feeder area at this important event!
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Thursday, September 4th
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍George Washington High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the George Washington High School feeder area at this important event!
📚💡 With so much information swirling around us every day, knowing how to find credible sources is a superpower!
The annual South Charleston High School IB field trip to the Kanawha County Public Library was a huge success! 🎉 Students learned how to dig into databases, explore all the amazing KCPL resources, and sharpen their skills in separating fact from fiction.
Because let’s face it… a quick internet search might give you 1,000,000 answers, but the library helps you find the right one. 🛜📚
The annual South Charleston High School IB field trip to the Kanawha County Public Library was a huge success! 🎉 Students learned how to dig into databases, explore all the amazing KCPL resources, and sharpen their skills in separating fact from fiction.
Because let’s face it… a quick internet search might give you 1,000,000 answers, but the library helps you find the right one. 🛜📚
📣 KCS Community Town Hall with Dr. Paula Potter — St. Albans Feeder Area
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Tuesday, September 2nd
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 St. Albans High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the St. Albans High School feeder area at this important event!
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Tuesday, September 2nd
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 St. Albans High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the St. Albans High School feeder area at this important event!
🚍 New Way to Find KCS Bus Changes 🚍
We’ve added a “Bus Changes” quick link at the top of the KCS website!
✅ This link will take you to a page with all AM and PM bus changes, organized by terminal.
✅ Beginning Tuesday(9/2), district-wide bus changes will ONLY be posted on this page by the KCS Transportation Department.
✅ Some schools may still share their own school-specific bus changes on Schoology, but district-wide updates will not appear on Schoology anymore.
👉 Be sure to check the “Bus Changes” link daily for the most up-to-date information.
We hope this makes it easier for families to quickly find the information you need!
We’ve added a “Bus Changes” quick link at the top of the KCS website!
✅ This link will take you to a page with all AM and PM bus changes, organized by terminal.
✅ Beginning Tuesday(9/2), district-wide bus changes will ONLY be posted on this page by the KCS Transportation Department.
✅ Some schools may still share their own school-specific bus changes on Schoology, but district-wide updates will not appear on Schoology anymore.
👉 Be sure to check the “Bus Changes” link daily for the most up-to-date information.
We hope this makes it easier for families to quickly find the information you need!
The August edition of the KCS Monthly Newsletter is now available 👇
🔗: https://5il.co/3ox3b
Content includes:
☺️ Student highlights from the first few weeks of the school year
📅 Important September events and reminders
🌟 A note from Dr. Potter!
... and more!
🔵 Don't forget 👉 Schools and offices are closed this coming Monday, September 1st for Labor Day.
🔗: https://5il.co/3ox3b
Content includes:
☺️ Student highlights from the first few weeks of the school year
📅 Important September events and reminders
🌟 A note from Dr. Potter!
... and more!
🔵 Don't forget 👉 Schools and offices are closed this coming Monday, September 1st for Labor Day.
🎓✨ Introducing: Path to the Stage ✨🎓
At Kanawha County Schools, our goal is simple but powerful: every student graduates high school on time with their cohort.
That journey doesn’t just begin senior year—it starts the moment a student walks through our doors. To celebrate the big steps and the small ones, we’re launching a new weekly feature called Path to the Stage. Each week, we’ll share stories of students across KCS who are building their futures one milestone at a time.
📍 Our first spotlight takes us to Carver Career Center, where first-year students in the Carpentry program (high school juniors) kicked off with an icebreaker lesson. Using a simple tape measure, students practiced teamwork and communication—and even learned the importance of a professional handshake.
Because Career & Technical Education (CTE) is more than just mastering a trade. It’s about building the soft skills—like confidence, professionalism, and communication—that will carry students from the classroom to graduation… and beyond.
👏 Congratulations for taking this important step on your Path to the Stage!
At Kanawha County Schools, our goal is simple but powerful: every student graduates high school on time with their cohort.
That journey doesn’t just begin senior year—it starts the moment a student walks through our doors. To celebrate the big steps and the small ones, we’re launching a new weekly feature called Path to the Stage. Each week, we’ll share stories of students across KCS who are building their futures one milestone at a time.
📍 Our first spotlight takes us to Carver Career Center, where first-year students in the Carpentry program (high school juniors) kicked off with an icebreaker lesson. Using a simple tape measure, students practiced teamwork and communication—and even learned the importance of a professional handshake.
Because Career & Technical Education (CTE) is more than just mastering a trade. It’s about building the soft skills—like confidence, professionalism, and communication—that will carry students from the classroom to graduation… and beyond.
👏 Congratulations for taking this important step on your Path to the Stage!
⚾🥎 Excess Levy Update – Turfing Projects 🥎⚾
Big progress is happening on our high school baseball and softball fields! Thanks to the support of Kanawha County voters through the excess levy, our students are gaining access to top-quality facilities that will benefit athletes of all ages for years to come.
✅ Completed:
George Washington High School baseball field (fencing work will begin in September)
George Washington High School & John Adams Middle School shared softball field (fencing work will begin in September)
Capital High School baseball & softball fields
Herbert Hoover High School baseball & softball fields
🚧 In Progress:
South Charleston High School fields — earthwork is scheduled to begin next week!
St. Albans High School fields — work is scheduled to begin later this fall!
We’re proud to provide our student-athletes with safe, modern, and durable playing surfaces—and it’s possible because of the community’s continued investment in our schools through the excess levy. 💙💚❤️
To stay up-to-date with how the excess levy money is being used, check out the excess levy page on the KCS website.
🔗: https://kcs.kana.k12.wv.us/o/kcs/page/kcs-excess-levy-projects
📸 Check out the drone shots of the newly completed GWHS baseball/softball fields.
Big progress is happening on our high school baseball and softball fields! Thanks to the support of Kanawha County voters through the excess levy, our students are gaining access to top-quality facilities that will benefit athletes of all ages for years to come.
✅ Completed:
George Washington High School baseball field (fencing work will begin in September)
George Washington High School & John Adams Middle School shared softball field (fencing work will begin in September)
Capital High School baseball & softball fields
Herbert Hoover High School baseball & softball fields
🚧 In Progress:
South Charleston High School fields — earthwork is scheduled to begin next week!
St. Albans High School fields — work is scheduled to begin later this fall!
We’re proud to provide our student-athletes with safe, modern, and durable playing surfaces—and it’s possible because of the community’s continued investment in our schools through the excess levy. 💙💚❤️
To stay up-to-date with how the excess levy money is being used, check out the excess levy page on the KCS website.
🔗: https://kcs.kana.k12.wv.us/o/kcs/page/kcs-excess-levy-projects
📸 Check out the drone shots of the newly completed GWHS baseball/softball fields.
🌊🏝️ Shipwrecked at Capital High! 🏝️🌊
Capital High School's senior civics class set sail on a history adventure like no other. After a storm “wrecked” their cruise ship on a deserted island, each group had to build a brand-new society from the ground up!
💡 Students designed their own systems of leadership, created laws, defined essential rights, developed food and water plans, established public safety strategies, and even named and designed flags for their island nations.
Through this engaging activity, students discovered the importance of rules and regulations to build a fair, safe, and structured society. 🌟
From stormy seas to founding fathers (and mothers!), these Cougars learned history by living it. 👏
Capital High School's senior civics class set sail on a history adventure like no other. After a storm “wrecked” their cruise ship on a deserted island, each group had to build a brand-new society from the ground up!
💡 Students designed their own systems of leadership, created laws, defined essential rights, developed food and water plans, established public safety strategies, and even named and designed flags for their island nations.
Through this engaging activity, students discovered the importance of rules and regulations to build a fair, safe, and structured society. 🌟
From stormy seas to founding fathers (and mothers!), these Cougars learned history by living it. 👏
📣 KCS Community Town Hall with Dr. Paula Potter — South Charleston Feeder Area
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Thursday, August 28th
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 South Charleston High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the South Charleston High School feeder area at this important event!
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Thursday, August 28th
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 South Charleston High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the South Charleston High School feeder area at this important event!
👏 Learning From Leaders
🇺🇸👏 Students from Nitro High School’s ROTC visited Nitro Elementary to work with 5th graders on the importance of flag etiquette. The group also practiced properly raising and lowering the American flag. This student led lesson in leadership is a wonderful example of schools working together! 💙❤️🤍
🇺🇸👏 Students from Nitro High School’s ROTC visited Nitro Elementary to work with 5th graders on the importance of flag etiquette. The group also practiced properly raising and lowering the American flag. This student led lesson in leadership is a wonderful example of schools working together! 💙❤️🤍
📣 KCS Community Town Hall with Dr. Paula Potter — Nitro Feeder Area
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Today, August 26th
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 Nitro High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the Nitro High School feeder area at this important event!
Kanawha County Schools invites parents, students, and community members to join us for a Town Hall Meeting with our new superintendent, Dr. Paula Potter.
🗓 Today, August 26th
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 Nitro High School
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet Dr. Potter
✅ Ask questions
✅ Share your ideas to help improve KCS
We hope to see families and community members from all schools in the Nitro High School feeder area at this important event!
👨🍳✨ Chef Report Day! ✨👩🍳
Carver Culinary students traded in their aprons for research papers! 📚 Each student was randomly assigned a world-famous chef to study—diving into bios, career highlights, industry impact, and even some surprising fun facts.
Their teacher was so proud watching them present with confidence and connect today’s lessons to tomorrow’s culinary industry. 🙌 Who knows… maybe one day their names will be the ones future students are researching! 🔥👩🍳👨🍳
Carver Culinary students traded in their aprons for research papers! 📚 Each student was randomly assigned a world-famous chef to study—diving into bios, career highlights, industry impact, and even some surprising fun facts.
Their teacher was so proud watching them present with confidence and connect today’s lessons to tomorrow’s culinary industry. 🙌 Who knows… maybe one day their names will be the ones future students are researching! 🔥👩🍳👨🍳
🌟 Overbrook Elementary 5th Grade Mentors 🌟
These Kindergarten Wildcats are off to a strong start thanks to some awesome 5th grade mentors! This week, the 5th graders stepped up as mentors for kindergarten students during lunch—modeling cafeteria procedures, practicing responsibility, and showing what it means to be safe, kind, and proud. 💙💚
Way to lead with kindness, Wildcats—you’re setting the tone for a great year ahead! 🐾👏
These Kindergarten Wildcats are off to a strong start thanks to some awesome 5th grade mentors! This week, the 5th graders stepped up as mentors for kindergarten students during lunch—modeling cafeteria procedures, practicing responsibility, and showing what it means to be safe, kind, and proud. 💙💚
Way to lead with kindness, Wildcats—you’re setting the tone for a great year ahead! 🐾👏
🍭 Science got a little squishy in Ms. Jenny’s class at Kanawha City Elementary! 💙💚 Students made their own Play-Doh! They mixed, mashed, and molded their very own creations—proving that learning can be hands-on and colorful. 👩🔬✨🧑🔬
👩🎓🔥 Breaking barriers at Nitro High!
Drew, a student who is visually impaired, is using The Monarch — a revolutionary device that lets him read braille text and tactile graphics at the same time. And a new app "Wing It" is leveling up the potential of this device!
🌟 Innovation in Action at Nitro High School! 🌟
Drew is putting the Monarch to work in his engineering class, exploring complex concepts through touch and gaining instant access to the same materials as his peers.
The Monarch is a first-of-its-kind, multi-line braille display with a library of more than 1,800 tactile graphics. It’s opening doors to new ways of learning, problem-solving, and creating. 💡👏
Even more exciting? With the new Monarch Wing It app, teachers and students can draw graphics on their devices and watch them instantly appear on the Monarch — giving visually impaired students immediate access to the same visuals as their classmates.
This week, Drew came in with a request: a tactile graphic of Nitro High School’s football field — complete with textures showing the bleachers, track, and more — for an engineering project. Without the Monarch and Wing It app that request could have taken hours (or even a week!) to create — but was ready in seconds.
In the photos below, Drew is working with his teacher, Mr. Wolfe, as they review the dimensions of the school’s scoreboard in engineering class.
This is inclusion and innovation at its very best. 💙
Drew, a student who is visually impaired, is using The Monarch — a revolutionary device that lets him read braille text and tactile graphics at the same time. And a new app "Wing It" is leveling up the potential of this device!
🌟 Innovation in Action at Nitro High School! 🌟
Drew is putting the Monarch to work in his engineering class, exploring complex concepts through touch and gaining instant access to the same materials as his peers.
The Monarch is a first-of-its-kind, multi-line braille display with a library of more than 1,800 tactile graphics. It’s opening doors to new ways of learning, problem-solving, and creating. 💡👏
Even more exciting? With the new Monarch Wing It app, teachers and students can draw graphics on their devices and watch them instantly appear on the Monarch — giving visually impaired students immediate access to the same visuals as their classmates.
This week, Drew came in with a request: a tactile graphic of Nitro High School’s football field — complete with textures showing the bleachers, track, and more — for an engineering project. Without the Monarch and Wing It app that request could have taken hours (or even a week!) to create — but was ready in seconds.
In the photos below, Drew is working with his teacher, Mr. Wolfe, as they review the dimensions of the school’s scoreboard in engineering class.
This is inclusion and innovation at its very best. 💙
Kanawha County Schools Board of Education, Regular Session — August 21st
The Kanawha County Schools Board of Education will host its monthly regular session meeting at 5 p.m. today. The meeting is open to the public.
This meeting will be livestreamed, and can be viewed at the link here 👇
https://kcs.kana.k12.wv.us/o/kcs/page/kcs-live-stream
The agenda is available on the KCS website 👇
☁️ Watch out, Weather Channel—Alum Creek 3rd graders are coming for your job! 🌦️
Today, these budding forecasters learned how to spot different cloud types and even predict when a storm might roll in. Cirrus, stratus, or cumulonimbus…they’ve got it covered!
Forecast for Alum Creek: 100% chance of learning, with scattered giggles throughout the day. 😄🌤️
Today, these budding forecasters learned how to spot different cloud types and even predict when a storm might roll in. Cirrus, stratus, or cumulonimbus…they’ve got it covered!
Forecast for Alum Creek: 100% chance of learning, with scattered giggles throughout the day. 😄🌤️
