Ryan New, a social studies teacher at Boyle County High School, has been named Outstanding Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
Michele Grey, a 5th-grade teacher at Old Mill Elementary School (Bullitt County) has been named the 2017 Kentucky DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Program) Association Teacher of the Year.
Teachers are invited to enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, a contest that challenges teachers and students in grades 6-12 to show how STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) can be applied to help improve their local community.
The Kentucky Department of Education has updated the online version of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Observation and Feedback training on iDrive Digital.
Registration is open for the 2018 Lieutenant Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge (LGEC), a tiered business pitch competition designed to introduce students to a realistic competitive business environment and to promote business ownership and lifelong learning.
ECET2KY, part of the national ECET2 (Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers) initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will host three regional meetings this fall across Kentucky.
The Edcamp Foundation is holding EdcampEKY for educators in eastern Kentucky on Nov. 4 in the Jolly Classroom Center at Hazard Community and Technical College.
Some Kentucky schools are teaching students how to design and build drones, while others are using them as teaching tools in a number of subject areas.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is accepting nominations for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.
Registration is open for the Kentucky Storytelling Conference Nov. 3-4 at the Hotel Louisville.