Kentucky State University, the Life Adventure Center at Buckley Wildlife Sanctuary and the Kentucky Environmental Education Council will offer a Project Learning Tree K-8 curriculum workshop focusing on outdoor and wildlife-related activities July 8 at Buckley Wildlife Sanctuary near Frankfort. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The registration fee is $15, which includes lunch. Click [...]
The Kentucky Center for Mathematics (KCM) will offer a SNAP (Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions) training session July 20-21 in Lebanon. The two-day course for K-2 teachers, teaching assistants and parent volunteers is an introduction to the assessment and advancement of early learning of numbers and arithmetic. The registration fee is $200; the registration deadline is July 10. Click here for [...]
The evidence statements provide detail on what students should know and be able to do in order to satisfy each performance expectation (PE) at the end of instruction. Given that each PE is three-dimensional, the statements describe how students can use the practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas together to demonstrate proficiency on the PEs by the end of [...]
A Lincoln County mathematics teacher shares with fellow teachers some of the ways she keeps students engaged at the Let’s TALK conference.
The Kentucky Department of Education Coordinated School Health Team will host two free summer professional learning opportunities this summer at locations across the state. “Agents of Change: Making Healthy Schools the Norm” is a Kentucky School Health and Physical Education Network (KySHAPE) professional learning event in which the Coordinated School Health Team will partner with educational cooperatives to provide professional [...]
The Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at the University of California, Berkeley is accepting new participants for 2015-16 elementary school and middle school science curriculum field trials. A number of spots are open for LHS’ middle school physical science unit, Magnetic Fields. The LHS Learning Design Group's rich science curriculum, which is developed in partnership with Amplify Education, combines hands-on inquiry, [...]
A workshop on educating students about air quality has been rescheduled and another on climate change in Southern forests is scheduled on consecutive days July 23-24 at Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery near Jamestown. “Southeastern Forests and Climate Change,” which will introduce a new Project Learning Tree (PLT) secondary module on climate change impacts on Southern forest ecosystems, the role [...]
The Louisville Writing Project will host a professional development on how to use storytelling to inspire reluctant writers and achieve writing standards July 1-3 at Roosevelt-Perry Elementary School in Louisville. The workshop will be led by storyteller and teaching artist Randi Skaggs, who competes frequently in story slams – live storytelling competitions in which storytellers have five minutes each to [...]
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Hunt Institute have produced a series of videos to help teachers better understand the mathematics skills students need to succeed in college, life and careers. The videos are based on the principle that understanding numbers and operations, ratios and proportions is part of the process for building a solid foundation in mathematics. [...]
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has produced a series of videos that illustrate the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in classrooms. The collection introduces science teachers to important strategies based on the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the NGSS. The videos highlight the major shifts in science instruction, explore the new role of the teacher, [...]