A Kentucky school district is investing in its teachers by helping cover their coursework for a rank change.

It's part of the Warren County Public Schools.

Grow your own initiative and it will mean some pay bumps for those educators.

Our Laura Rogers went to class for tonight's look at education matters.

It's now going to war in 1978.

Gary Bowman teaches world history at Warren Central High School in Bowling Green.

He tries to find a way to make it fun so that we're not just all sitting here bored.

Also, a word called a stalemate.

The thing that I love most is those light bulb moments.

I'm truly passionate about teaching history.

So you had trench warfare, right?

Today, as students are learning about World War One, acting out scenes from the past in front of their peers.

It really makes us feel like we're actually there in person.

Kind of like the magic school bus that we all watched as a kid.

The three remaining soldiers before becoming a teacher, Bowen spent 23 years in the U.S. military.

When we're talking about the events and the associations and the places being able to say that I've walked in those lands and I've got to witness some of this.

I get to teach from a different perspective.

But when retired from the military in 2014, less than a year later, he started his second career in education.

You don't have plans or we think we have an idea of what we're going to do.

But then life happens.

And who would have dreamed that I'm in a profession that I absolutely love?

I would have never pictured that out of love in as much as I do.

With a masters degree in curriculum instruction, Bolen recently applied to achieve rank one certification through Boeing Board, an educational consultant and talent development provider.

Warren County Public Schools will cover a majority of the cost.

We're providing more opportunities to help teachers achieve, learn more about themselves, to better support themselves.

And the more we know about ourselves, the more we can help those which would be our students, the people we work with that overflows into our community.

Five Atlanta Central Powers Victory.

When this opportunity came up, I'm like, Hey, this is another opportunity to go to the next level, so why not try to take full advantage of that and make me smile?

It is a professional development opportunity that translates to a pay increase, a helpful strategy to support teacher retention.

There are some places that are in dire straits for just to have a warm body of a teacher, if you will, in the classroom.

So somebody could have a bad day, be like, I'm quitting or I'm going to go a place.

And chances are you probably could.

But here you're maintaining and keeping the best of the best.

And that's powerful.

And I really think it's a smart objective on behalf of the district, too.

Congratulations.

For Kentucky Edition, You chose to do this to better yourself and to be better for your students.

I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you so much, Laura.

The program allows teachers to go at their own pace and it is integrated into classroom practice.

In exchange, the teachers agree to a commitment with the district.