October 23, 2025---Members of the 2025 Leadership Tomorrow (LT) Class attended Art’s Day held on Murray State University’s Campus. Junior and senior students from Calloway and Murray High schools experienced hands on experiences to potential careers in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.
2025 Leadership Tomorrow Students: CCHS: Idaly Alavarado, Halle Allred, Jackson Ames, Jolijah Arrieta, Kaylee Cooper, Cindy Damian, Emma Grooms, Trent Jones, William Lanier, Kameron Myers, Connor Pile, Allie Speelman, and Ryan Turman. MHS Students: Reilly Basset, Grierre Bourque, Mya Brown, Will Burkeen, Ellie Chetwatee, Logan Dodd, Hannah Elmore, Flora Falwell, Sophie Georgiou, Tyson Gibson, Connor Hall, Emma Haynes, Owen Howell, Naya James, Nate Johnston, Madyson Martin, Tanner Morgan, Vanessa Oster, Krishiv Patel, Aubrey Robinson, Taquari Sanders, Addison Shultz, Olivia Smee, Avery Starks, Claire Wilcher, Carter Wilson, Xiomara Kortova.
Students ate lunch in MSU’s Winslow Cafeteria. While there, Dr. Ron K. Patterson, MSU president, was on campus eating lunch with Leadership Tomorrow graduate students and MHS alumni who are 2025 MSU Presidential Fellows. Ali Khatib, Leadership Tomorrow graduate and MSU SGA President, and Will Imes, Leadership Tomorrow graduate and MSU Presidential fellow, and Matthew Ashlock, MSU Presidential Fellow.
Special thanks to Dr. Patterson, who posed for a photo with the Leadership Tomorrow students. Sincere appreciation to Nicole Hand Bryant, Interim Dean, and Drew Seib, PhD, Interim Assistant Dean, of the MSU College of Humanities and Fine Arts, for chairing the LT Art’s Day.
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This week is National School Bus Safety Week!
Each day, 8,795 school buses in Kentucky transport more than 385,000 students.
Safety starts with our amazing school bus drivers and school bus aides.
We send a huge salute to our 2025 Murray Independent School District Transportation Team.
Thank you for keeping our students safe!
( A reminder from KDE for our drivers---- if any school or church bus used in the transportation of children is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers, with the stop arm and signal lights activated, vehicles approaching from any direction must stop and wait until the bus has completed receiving or discharging passengers and has been put into motion.)
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Student Focused-Future Ready
MISD Rank Change: This year is the first year we have offered a Continuation Education Option (CEO) Rank Change program in coordination with Excell Development. This new “district offered” rank change option approved by the board in 2024, offered a unique opportunity for our educators to work with district mentors to improve their instructional practices.
MISD CEO Rank Change Completors
● Shannon Chiles (MES) - Rank I
● Michael Chipman (MHS) - Rank I
● Amberly Munsey (MES) - Rank I
● Laura Phillips (MES) - Rank I
● Adam Pitman (MES) - Rank I
● Libby Scott (MES) - Rank II
● Jordyn Wells (MES) - Rank I
● Magen Wood (MES) - Rank II
MISD Rank Changes Completed in 24-25
● Jennifer Barnhill-McCormick (MMS) - Rank I - Murray State University
● Rebecca Burgess (MHS) - Rank I - Bloomboard CEO Program
● Mackenzie Cadagin (MES) - Rank I - Bloomboard CEO Program
● Sarah Collins (MES) - Rank I - Reading & Writing Masters Murray State University
● Amy McCann (MES) - Rank I - LETRS Literacy CEO Rank Change Program
● Monica Wiggins (MES) - Rank I - Reading & Writing Masters Murray State University
● Morgan Workman (MES) - Rank I - Education Administration Murray State University
● Morgan Adams (Preschool) - Rank II - LETRS Literacy CEO Rank Change Program
● Lisa Halter (Preschool) - Rank II - LETRS Literacy CEO Rank Change Program
● Kennedy Williams (MES) - Rank II - Bloomboard CEO Program
● Kalli Winchester (MMS) - Rank II - Reading & Writing Masters Murray State University
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"Student Focused-Future Ready"
Each month, we’ll celebrate MISD educators and staff who embody Excellence, Passion, Positive Impact, Leadership, Dependability, Respect, and Supportiveness — the very best of our district.
We’re inviting local businesses to partner with us in recognizing these outstanding individuals through monthly sponsorships (gift cards, prizes, or contributions) and the Educator of the Year award in May.
Interested in sponsoring? Contact Melanie Jarvis at 📞 270-753-4363 or 📧 melanie.jarvis@murray.kyschools.us
Join us in celebrating the teachers and staff who make MISD an incredible place to learn and work! 💛🖤
Our Tiger nation students have been busy this week.
Murray Elementary School students have celebrated Community Helpers this week and concluded with a Community Helper Parade today. Students dressed as their favorite Community Helpers.
Murray Preschool Headstart students visited the Penny Pumpkin Patch this week for fall festivities.
Murray Middle School fourth grade students dressed as idioms to depict the different meaning from the literal meanings of the words. Students have been learning how idioms are a common part of language and can be a complete sentence or part of one, making them a fun and natural way to speak.
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Murray High School seniors, Selvam Antony, Anatasia Arkova, Brandon Daughaday, and Ethan Peng were honored duringt the MISD October Board Meeting as Semifinalists in the 2026 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
We congratulate these students who are now a part of the rich MHS tradition. Since 1974, Murray High School has boasted 62 National Merit Finalists, 3 Semi-Finalists, and 15 National Merit Commended scholars.
Antony, Arkova, Daughaday and Peng join the approximate 16,000 Semifinalists names by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,930 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.
Over 1.3 million juniors in about 20,000 high schools entered the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
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On the Murray Elementary School Community Helper Day parade day, Dr. David Meinschein, MISD superintendent, and Whitney York, MISD assistant superintendent, visited Murray Elementary School this morning and introduced the renderings to the Murray Elementary Students. Students saw first hand how a community comes together as "Student Focused – Future Ready."
“This milestone marks a major step forward in creating a modern, engaging learning environment designed to support the needs of students and teachers for generations to come.
Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects is proud to partner with Murray Independent on this transformative project, continuing our shared commitment to excellence in education.
Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects
It feels like Murray.
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During the September breakfast, Nick Bell andTanner Morgan were the MHS seniors.
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