Staff report
Beechwood Superintendent Mike Stacy and Campbell County High School teacher Ryan Goss won the administrator and teacher-leader awards named in honor of former NKU President A.D. Albright.
The awards were part of the Northern Kentucky Education’s celebration of Excellence in Education held at the Holiday Inn Airport before a full-house Wednesday evening.
Mike Stacy accepts his award at the Northern Kentucky Education Council’s event.
Stacy has been superintendent of Beechwood Independent Schools since 2015. He served as Chief Academic Officer of Woodfood County Schools and, over his career, as a principal, assistant principal, athletic director, head coach and classroom social studies teacher in multiple districts, at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
He earned his bachelors’ degree from Georgetown, his masters in Administration from the University of Kentucky and his doctorate in Educational Policy and Leadership at Spalding University in Louisville.
He is regarded as an inspirational leader who motivates and rallies his team and cares deeply about the students.
He and his wife, Melody and their three children live in Fort Mitchell.
Goss has been a 9th-12th grade Advanced Placement Microeconomics/Macroeconomics and Integrated Social Studies teacher at Campbell County High school for nine years He uses a variety of methods to keep his students engaged and learning — including talk partners, grouping strategies, flipped classroom model, project-based learning stations and individualized remediation.
Ryan Goss
In both AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics his students have achieved a 100% pass rate.
He has coached over 35 teams for the National Economics Challenge and one of his teams placed first in the state and 19th in the national last year. He is the lead teacher for Professional Growth Plan cadres and is a member of the Resilient and Ready by Design Teacher Leaders Institute and the District Trauma Sensitive Action Research Team.
A.D. Albright was president of Northern Kentucky University from 1976 to 1983. He died in 2009 at age 96 and was considered the “elder statesman” of Kentucky education. Before coming to NKU, he worked for the University of Kentucky for 20 years, serving as provost, vice president and interim president. He also served as executive director of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education.
At NKU Albright oversaw the doubling of enrollment to more than 10,000 as well as $40 million in construction projects.
This is the first in a series on the awards presented at the Northern Kentucky Education Council’s annual event. Look for other stories to come in the NKyTribune.
