The Danville Schools Education Foundation, in conjunction with the National School Foundation Association, is sponsoring an education foundation training Dec. 10-11 at the Danville-Boyle County Public Library in Danville. The meeting is open to any district or community member who wants to start a nonprofit education foundation and/or has a struggling education foundation and needs ideas and strategies to motivate [...]
Commissioner Stephen L. Pruitt welcomed the opinions of students on the Next-Generation Student Advisory Council in one of his first meetings with students.
Workshop offers 20-minute presentations on technology that can be used in the classroom, most led by teachers who have tried the technology themselves.
National History Day in Kentucky (NHDKy), the state affiliate of National History Day, gives students the opportunity to explore the past in a creative, hands-on way. NHDKy challenges students in grades 4-12 to think like historians. Students choose their own topics and conduct their own research to produce a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website, becoming experts on a topic [...]
The English-Speaking Union, Kentucky Branch, Shakespeare Competition will be March 6 at Bellarmine University in Louisville. The competition is open to high school students, who read, analyze, perform and recite Shakespearean monologues and sonnets in three qualifying stages: at the school, community and national levels. The program begins in classrooms nationwide in fall and early winter, culminating in school-wide competitions [...]
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair didn’t realize it at first, but she discovered she was “one of those people who was just born to teach.”
Sarah Coomer, the gifted and talented coordinator for Bullitt County Schools, has been named a director of the Kentucky Association of Gifted Education Advisory Board. She joins the 20-member board that serves as an advocate and liaison for gifted and talented children within their district and across Kentucky. Coomer has worked with district staff to offer weekly elementary camps in [...]
The Kentucky Storytelling Conference will be Nov. 6-7 at Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park in Burkesville. The Nov. 6 evening session includes featured storyteller Pat Nease, a three-time Florida champion liar, an open mic session and a Late Night Story Slam. The agenda for Nov. 7 includes workshops, open mic sessions and another evening concert. Advance registration discounts are [...]
The Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) will offer a number of travel programs in 2016 in which educators can earn professional development credit while seeing the world. GEEO’s trips are seven to 21 days long and are designed and discounted to be interesting and affordable for teachers. In addition to tour leaders, many of the programs are accompanied by university faculty that are experts [...]
Applications are being accepted for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Stewards Education Project (CSEP), which provides educators with sustained professional development, collaborative tools and support to build a climate-literate public that is actively engaged in climate stewardship. The program also provides support for educators to execute climate stewardship (mitigation or adaptation) projects with their audiences to increase understanding [...]