Two Paducah teachers receive GoTeachKY honors

Paducah Head Start instructor Laura Pratt and Paducah Middle School instructor Dylan Howard, have been named ambassadors for the GoTeachKY initiative by the Kentucky Department of Education.The mission of GoTeachKY is to ensure that all students across the Commonwealth have equitable access to effective educators. GoTeachKY seeks to recruit the next generation of teachers in Kentucky, helping remedy the critical teacher shortage that affects every state in the U.S.

Ambassadors in the GoTeachKY initiative have three main goals:

Communicate with and inspire students in high school and college to consider teaching as a career.

Communicate with potential and current teachers to promote the rewards and opportunities associated with a career in teaching.

Support and promote the central focus areas, programs and organizations of GoTeachKY, such as Educators Rising Kentucky and the Teaching and Learning career pathway.