The National Association of Geoscience Teachers will offer a webinar to support elementary teachers in implementing the Next Generation Science Standards in earth and space sciences at 4 p.m. ET April 14. “Supporting Elementary Teachers with the NGSS” will provide lessons from science educators’ work with elementary teachers and strategies to help teachers to connect science to literacy and standards. [...]
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is offering surplus maps to classrooms across the state to use as an educational resource in its Maps to Schools program. The cabinet’s 12 highway districts will begin distributing surplus copies of the 2015 Official Highway Map to educators and students over the next month. The maps can be used for many educational purposes, including geography, [...]
In celebration of Financial Literacy Month in Kentucky, the Kentucky Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy is participating in Teach Children to Save Day on April 29. This is a national event developed by the American Bankers Association Education Foundation to teach children to identify goals and to save to reach those goals. Kentucky Jump$tart will send volunteers to 33 [...]
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Karen West, left, executive director of Redhound Enrichment, accepts the Dollar General Afterschool Literacy Award from Lindsey Sublett, community initiatives administrator with Dollar General Corporation at the National AfterSchool Association’s annual convention in Orlando, Fla.Photo submitted, March 20, 2016 Corbin Independent Schools’ Redhound Enrichment after-school program has received the Dollar General Afterschool Literacy Award for its excellence in [...]
“Discipline Strategies from Successful Teachers of African American Adolescents,” a research-based professional learning program offering educators the opportunity to obtain leadership skills needed to positively influence students with disruptive behavior, will be held April 28 at Carnegie Literacy Center in Lexington. The seminar is based on the doctoral dissertation of Carolyn Bowman, an English professor at Bluegrass Community and Technical [...]
Students in grades K-5 are invited to celebrate the Kentucky Derby by showcasing their artwork in the Governor’s Downtown Derby Celebration. Students will create an 8 1/2-by-11 inch work of art from a template of a jockey’s silk. This is not a competition; all artworks will be displayed during the Governor’s Downtown Derby Celebration on May 7 in Frankfort. Entries [...]
The Kentucky Writing Project has partnered with Zoom In, which offers a package of 18 short online American history lessons, to offer two summer academies for teachers to learn how to use the units and free access to the resources for one year for participants in the academies. The lessons, which were developed by the Education Development Center, are for [...]
The Kentucky NEED Project's 2016 Kentucky Energy Conference for Educators will be held June 12-17 as a tour, with stops throughout central Kentucky focusing on energy efficiency, conservation and sustainability. The bus tour will bring together teachers who are passionate about bringing energy education to their classrooms, providing them with the most up-to-date information on all aspects of energy, including [...]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office will hold its National Summer Teacher Institute on Innovation, STEM and Intellectual Property July 17-22 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. The program for K-12 educators combines training tools, practices and project-based learning models to help l teachers incorporate the concepts of making, inventing and innovation into classroom instruction. The central focus [...]