New CTE/Secondary Director Appointed for HCS
Madison Lewis has been named Director of Career and Technical Education and Secondary Education for Haywood County Schools. Madison graduated from…
HCS Mini-Grant Winners – Fall 2021
Any teacher would want a little extra cash to spend in their classrooms in order to engage students more effectively in daily learning. Haywood…
Industrial Maintenance – Creating a Path Forward for Students
Traditionally, the world of education has orbited around four core academic subjects - Reading, Math, Science, and History. Other subjects have…
Cindy Moore – STEAM – Haywood Middle School
The STEAM program at Haywood Middle School (HMS) is Haywood County Schools (HCS) students’ last stop before entering high school and possibly…
HCS State Testing Data – 2021
When I was a teenager, I would grab the paper every morning before school and shuffle as fast as I could to the Sports section. My eyes would skim…
King Picked to Lead Project AWARE
Last month, Haywood County Schools (HCS) was one of three counties in the state of Tennessee to be awarded the Project AWARE Grant. AWARE stands for…
TSU gives big to HHS
HAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AWARDED FULL SCHOLARSHIPS Tennessee State University (TSU) announced that any member of the 2022 graduating class of…
Sunny Hill collects 4,200 cans for Carl Perkins Center
Sunny Hill Intermediate School put the ‘giving’ in Thanksgiving this year when students and staff showed up and showed out for the school’s first…
Michelle Tillman – Beginning With the End in Mind at Haywood Middle School
Ask any teacher, principal, or school district employee and they would most likely tell you that the most challenging grade band to teach would be…
Rachel Winberry – STEAM – East Side
After learning the basic principles of STEAM at Anderson Early Childhood Center and Haywood Elementary, Haywood County students begin to put those…
Ebonie Harrell – STEAM – Sunny Hill
Students at Sunny Hill Intermediate School are building on their STEAM foundations learned at Anderson, Haywood Elementary, and East Side and moving…
HCS AWARDED PROJECT AWARE GRANT
Haywood County Schools (HCS) is one of three school districts in the state that has been awarded funding from the Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness…
Brittany Avent – Shaping the Culture at Haywood High School
There are multiple ways to get to a destination. Different routes can all lead to the same place, but some may take a little longer than others.…
Truancy Intervention Program in HCS Provides Support to Families
The first step of any student’s learning process begins in the classroom. If a student does not attend class, the student will not be able to reach…
STEAM – Hannah Riley – Haywood Elementary School
After the early introduction to STEAM at Anderson Early Childhood Center, students at Haywood Elementary School continue their education in science,…
STEAM – Nicole Henderson – Anderson Early Childhood Center
Foundational structure is imperative if anything of substance is to be built. There has been a seismic shift in education over the last decade with a…
Even more options for postsecondary Tomcats
Haywood County Schools and Superintendent Joey Hassell continue to demonstrate and prove their commitment to the post-secondary success of its…
Chris Haliburton – Building Early Foundations of Learning at Anderson Early Childhood Center
“Renaissance man” is a term and idea that developed from the period of history in which knowledge, art, and special skills grew across culture at an…
The Writing Revolution
One of the most effective ways for a student to display and communicate the knowledge they have acquired is by learning to successfully compose their…
The Math Collaborative
Collaboration in a professional setting is necessary for growth and success. Working in isolation can cause a professional in any occupation to…
Book characters come to life
Haywood Elementary and East Side held their annual book character parades on Friday, October 29. Students, teachers and administrators dressed up as…
Dancin’ the day away at AECC
In a time-honored tradition, the entire staff at Anderson Early Childhood Center – Cubs, teachers and administrators alike – rocked the socks off of…
Tressy Halbrook: Combining Learning and Fun at East Side Elementary School
Tressy Halbrook: Combining Learning and Fun at East Side Elementary School At its most essential level, opportunity comes down to two things: being…
Co-Instruction in HCS
Co-Instruction in Haywood County Provides Equity and Inclusivity in the Classroom Elementary schools in Haywood County are partnering with the…
HHS Student Council
Haywood High School Student Council Allows Students to Lead and Support Their School and Community Finding ways to allow students to contribute to…
Sunny Hill goes big for Go Jim Go
We speak often of Brownsville’s big benevolent heart. Sunny Hill Intermediate School is the latest to exemplify such kindness and giving. And in a…
Boo-tiful art from HHS
Haywood High School art students, under the direction of Jennifer Friedman, used pumpkins as the canvas for their latest creations. The boo-tifully…
Thank you, bus drivers!
HCS celebrates transportation staff Last week, Haywood County Schools honored their bus drivers, monitors and transportation staff by having a…
Celebrating success at East Side
East Side Wildcats celebrated first-quarter top achievers and good behavior with a Wacky Wildcat Party. Students who completed the first nine weeks…
Haywood County Virtual Academy – Providing Non-Traditional Learning Options for Students and Families in Haywood County
In March of 2020, the shape of education in the state of Tennessee changed forever. Because of the outbreak of COVID-19, many school districts across…
Transportation Appreciation Week
Any school district, no matter the size, could be accurately compared to a complex machine such as a computer, smartphone, or, for the purposes of…
HMS Choir Performs
Haywood Middle School Choir Performs First Concert of the Year On Tuesday, October 19, the Haywood Middle School Choir performed their Fall concert.…
Anna Roberts – Developing Leaders at Haywood Elementary School
The way a person experiences a sensory event is as unique as the person themselves. Certain sounds might be soothing to one person, but bothersome…
Planning for the future at HMS
Haywood Middle School is Helping Students Plan for their Future Choosing a career path for an adult can be a daunting task, but the process of…
HHS College Fair
Haywood High School hosts college fair Last week, Haywood High School hosted a college fair in the Doc Crowder Gymnasium. Twenty-six colleges and…
Ford gives to Class of 2022; new student council introduced
The Haywood County Board of Education met last week for its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. Coming out of the gate strong, Superintendent Joey…
The Student Options Academy – Giving Innovative Options to Students in Haywood County
“You can’t go home again.” There are a multitude of sentences like the one above that aren’t immediately understood based on the words that make it…
The “I am a Reader and Writer Project” is Developing Young Readers in Haywood County
The cornerstone of a solid educational foundation is for a student to be able to read on their grade level. While statistics of how many students…
Meet Haywood Elementary’s therapy dog, River
Students helping dogs; a dog helping students Meet Haywood Elementary’s therapy dog, River It’s no secret that Brownsville has a big, benevolent…
Site Based Social Workers Provide Extra Support for Students
When students enter a classroom to learn, they are bringing multiple dimensions of themselves into the learning environment. They are bringing their…
HHS students visit UofM
Four Haywood High School seniors recently took their first campus visit and college tour to the University of Memphis, an event sponsored by the…
HHS seniors reach TN Promise goal
Haywood High School’s diligent commitment to the post-secondary success of its students, whether it’s workforce development or college preparation,…
HHS Homecoming 2021
Tomcats celebrate Homecoming 2021 There’s nothing small about a small-town high school homecoming celebration, especially in Brownsville. Despite the…
HMS XC Meet
HMS and Serendipity host XC Eight middle school cross country teams traveled to Haywood County to compete on two miles of beautiful rolling hills at…
Gov. Lee visits Haywood High School
Tuesday, September 28, is certainly one for the record books as it forever changed the trajectory of Haywood County…and Haywood County Schools for…
New TCAT coming too!
New technical college to be built in Haywood County By: Carlton Veirs, The Brownsville Press The big announcements keep coming. On Tuesday, September…
We won!
Largest auto manufacturing plant ever built in the United States to locate in Haywood County By: Carlton Veirs, The Brownsville Press It’s hard to…
Sunny Hill Intermediate School – Reaching for Excellence
In the principal’s office of Sunny Hill Intermediate School, there’s a piece of art made from metal hanging on the wall. It’s difficult not to…
A School Nurse on Each Campus Provides Needed Support for Teachers and Students
The challenges of navigating COVID-19 within a school building and school system have been immense. A silver lining to the pandemic, however, is…
21st Century: Connecting Students to Academic Opportunities Outside the Classroom
When thinking of a student’s academic learning day, most people would carve out a seven hour window in their minds and believe that learning would…