Students ages 6-18 are invited to participate in the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet’s 2016 Public Service Recognition Poster Contest, which is intended to increase awareness of the achievements and contributions of state employees in the workplace and their communities. The theme is “Public Employees – Great People Doing Great Jobs.” Entries will be judged in three age divisions; the top three [...]
Applications are being accepted for the Commissioner’s Student Council, a student panel that meets with the commissioner of education and Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) staff. Council members discuss how decisions made at the state level are affecting students throughout Kentucky and provide feedback on critical issues impacting Kentucky students and schools. The Commissioner's Student Council is a year-long program [...]
The Exploration Station helped schools combat summer slide by taking summer programs directly to the students who need them most.
Twenty Kentucky public school principals have begun a year-long executive-level leadership training course usually reserved for the nation’s top CEOs. An advisory board made up of business leaders and school superintendents chose these women for the Kentucky Chamber Foundation’s Leadership Institute for School Principals: Angie Akers, Glasscock Elementary School (Marion County) Michael Anderson, Calvert City Elementary School (Marshall County) Willie [...]
The Central Kentucky High School Mathematics Circle, a weekend enrichment activity for students in grades 8-12 with an interest in mathematics, begins its new year with an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Aug. 16 at 654 Maxwelton Court in Lexington. The circle is led by faculty and students from local colleges and universities. The informal sessions will consist of students [...]
An enhanced version of the Persistence to Graduation Tool is expected to more accurately predict when a student is likely to leave school early.
The Kentucky Department of Education’s novice reduction team will host a series of workshops for principals and teacher leadership teams in the coming weeks. “Novice Reduction Strategies for School Improvement” will offer teacher leaders, principals and district leaders high-impact, research-based strategies that are proven to influence novice performance and improve overall student learning. The schedule of workshops: Aug. 30 – [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is offering an opportunity for Kentucky public school districts to apply for grants that will fund mathematics intervention services for primary students who are struggling to meet grade level or benchmark expectations for mathematics. KDE expects to fund about 90 schools at an estimated $50,000 per year to support the hiring of one full-time [...]
Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt is asking educators and other education shareholders to send feedback to the U.S. Department of Education (USED) on proposed regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Kentucky’s new accountability system must conform to the regulations, which provide the implementation details for the law, or the state must apply for waivers for those portions of [...]
Applications are being accepted for the Kentucky Network to Transform Teaching’s Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions (CTEPS) program. The program is a year-long, compensated professional learning experience in which teachers can work with colleagues from around the state to propose, implement and reflect on solutions to the challenges they face in their classrooms. CTEPS, which is open to full-time or [...]