Kendrick Bryan, a social studies teacher at LaRue County High School, has been selected as Kentucky’s 2017 James Madison Fellow by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation. The foundation selects one fellow from each state annually. Fellows receive $24,000 to fund graduate education to become outstanding teachers of the United States Constitution at the secondary school level. “I applied for [...]
The Mars Society is holding an art contest in which students in grades 4-12 may submit up to three works of art illustrating human life on Mars. The society will award cash prizes to the top three finishers and will post the winning works of art to its website. Winners also will also have the opportunity to attend the International [...]
James Murray, a business teacher at Pulaski County High School, has been named the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Kentucky Adviser of the Year. Murray was recognized at the FBLA State Leadership Conference April 17-19 in Louisville. He will compete against other state winners for the National Adviser of the Year award at the National Leadership Conference, scheduled for [...]
The Kentucky Crushed Stone Association will hold its annual teachers’ workshop, “Rocks and Minerals in Modern Society,” June 21-22 at Georgetown College. The free workshop is designed for science teachers in grades 3-12, but is also open to other teachers who would like to learn more about rocks and minerals. The workshop will focus on the identification, economic value and uses [...]
A free workshop to train educators on the Project Learning Tree (PLT) secondary module on climate change, “Southeastern Forests and Climate Change,” will be June 21 at the Kentucky State University Environmental Education and Research Center in Henry County. “Southeastern Forests and Climate Change” will train educators on the curriculum. All participants may submit a proposal for a $1,000 grant [...]
The University of Kentucky School of Music will offer its UK Dalcroze Institute on the Dalcroze Eurhythmics approach to music education July 10-21 in Lexington. The workshop – designed for educators, musicians, dancers and music specialists – teaches participants how to refine their musicianship and teach music through the Dalcroze approach, which focuses on rhythmic movement, refined musicality and improvisation [...]
The Kentucky Science Teachers Association and Pearson will offer a free workshop for science teachers in all grades June 22 at Malone’s at Lansdowne Shoppes in Lexington. The workshop ties together three important dimensions to learning science within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) – core ideas, practices and cross-cutting concepts – and offers hands-on NGSS activities. Email Alison Martinez [...]
The Kentucky Environmental Education Council (KEEC) will host a water quality and conservation workshop May 31 at Pulaski County High School and Liberty Nature Center in Somerset. The workshop is open to teachers from all grade levels and content areas. Educators will conduct hands-on activities, including macroinvertebrate sampling. Special focus will be given to the new Kentucky Science Assessment System [...]
Teachers learned how to use the Aug. 21 event as a teaching opportunity at a Western Kentucky University’s SKyTeach workshop.
Owen County students studied the life of an accomplished native son and worked in a collaborative writing environment to make his story known.