Amanda Hurley of Henry Clay High School (Fayette County), was named the Kentucky Outstanding School Media Librarian by the Kentucky Association of School Librarians at its annual conference in September. Other KASL award winners honored included: Rachel Burgin, Henry County High School, School Library Web Site Award Emily Northcutt and Annette Jones, LeGrande Elementary School (Hart County), Donna Hornsby Joint [...]
The Crafts Luminary exhibit sponsored by the Kentucky Craft History and Education Association (KCHEA) and presented at ArtsPlace in Lexington offers teachers an opportunity to address the Kentucky Academic Standards in the Visual Arts (creating, presenting, responding, and connecting) as they engage students in exploring artworks by contemporary Kentuckians. Teachers may take their students on a field trip to ArtsPlace [...]
Laura Roché, a French teacher at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County) is the 2015 recipient of the Kentucky World Language Association Outstanding Teacher Award. She received the award Sept. 26 at the KWLA annual conference in Louisville. Roché is in her 24th year of teaching French. She has spent the past six years at Beaumont Middle after having taught at [...]
Teachers learn new ideas to keep students interested at the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education’s annual conference.
High School Mathematics Day for Women will be held Nov. 7 on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington. This free event is designed to introduce female high school students to the options available to those who study mathematics and to introduce them to mathematics outside the standard high school curriculum. The event is open to girls in grades 9-12, [...]
The Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana (EFK) is offering a free lesson on epilepsy for teachers to use in the classroom. The training, appropriate for grades 4-12, provides students with a basic knowledge of the brain, the different seizure types, first aid responses for each seizure type and a discussion to help reduce stigma and misperceptions about seizures and epilepsy. A [...]
Students interested in attending The Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) can apply for ArtShops and GSA summer program auditions beginning Oct. 1. Rising juniors and seniors may attend GSA, a three-week summer program. GSA is tuition free, but students must apply and audition for admittance. ArtShops, which are daylong workshops at which master artists can help students [...]
A Hardin County principal became a believer in the value of the Professional Growth and Effectiveness System, then spent a year helping her colleagues understand it.
The Kentucky Network to Transform Teaching (KNTT) is offering financial assistance to teachers pursuing National Board certification who are from schools without National Board Certified Teachers. To help achieve the goal outlined in a Kentucky statute of having one National Board Certified Teacher in every Kentucky school by 2020, KNTT will reimburse qualified candidates for up to $275 in out-of-pocket [...]
Old Fort Harrod State Park invites teachers to schedule educational field trips for their students to the park in Harrodsburg, the site of Kentucky’s first permanent settlement. The park gives students the opportunity to learn by experiencing the frontier with living history interpreters, who engage them with hands-on conversations. The park also includes Kentucky’s first schoolhouse, the oldest cemetery in [...]