Wendy Young is an experienced educator with a diverse background in teaching and educational leadership. Wendy has been a 5th grade teacher and principal at Fayette County Public Schools since August 2008. In addition, Wendy serves as an elected District 2 School Board Member for Scott County Schools, a position held since March 2022. Wendy is also an associate trainer at Kagan Publishing and Professional Development, starting in January 2020. Prior educational roles include serving as a highly skilled educator at the Kentucky Department of Education from July 2005 to June 2008 and as an elementary school teacher at Scott County Public Schools from July 1997 to June 2008. Wendy holds a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership: K-12 Leadership from Grand Canyon University and dual Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Elementary Education from Georgetown College. Educational training began at Eastern Kentucky University and Scott County High School.
This person is not in any offices
Kagan Publishing and Professional Development
Kagan Publishing and Professional Development is all about engagement! Central to most Kagan publications and workshops are Kagan Structures. You've probably heard of some popular Kagan Structures including Numbered Heads Together, RallyRobin, and Quiz-Quiz-Trade. Those Kagan Structures, and many more, are now used world-wide from kindergarten to adult education, in all academic subject areas to boost student engagement and learning. Kagan Structures produce revolutionary positive results. Teachers, schools, and districts use Kagan Structures to increase academic achievement, enhance self-esteem, create a more harmonious classroom climate, reduce discipline problems, and develop students' social skills and character virtues. How do such simple little teaching strategies have such a profoundly positive effect on so many dimensions of learning? Easy. It's all about engagement! Kagan Publishing & Professional Development offers workshops and products in a number of related topics relating to active student learning including, cooperative learning, brain-friendly instruction, Win-Win Discipline, classroom management, and more. While Kagan as a publishing and professional development organization has steadily grown in both it's offerings and popularity over the past few decades, some things have not changed: the central role of Kagan Structures in Kagan's trainings and publications and the firm commitment to and belief that, "It's All About Engagement!"