All in Education

LCC hosts "For the Love of the ART" event

The Lenoir Community College Foundation is excited to display the artistic talents of our community members, Transitional and Career Studies students, and Fine Arts Department students in a special event, For the Love of ART from 7 to 8:30 p.m. February 28 in the LCC Blizzard Atrium and Culinary Center.

Parrott Students stitch up memory pillows

On a Friday afternoon in early February, biology teacher Leslie Lewis’s Parrott Academy classroom is full of sewing machines, irons, and yards of colorful flannel. A group of dedicated high school students learns how to measure, pin, cut, and seam pillows that will be held and hugged by some very special children.

LCPS Teacher of the Year finalists judge themselves in their students

Three educators who say their mission is to create opportunities for students have been chosen as finalists for the 2020-2021 LCPS Teacher of the Year award.

Kristen Davenport, a science teacher at E.B. Frink Middle School; Ryan Gardner, a science teacher at South Lenoir High School; and Barbara Purdie, an English teacher at Kinston High School emerged as contenders from a field of 18 teachers who represent each of the district’s schools and its pre-kindergarten program.