The Center for Learning with Nature is offering a free online professional development workshop this summer for middle school and high school STEM teachers. The training will help teachers learn to use the new “Engineering Inspired by Nature” curriculum, which applies ideas from the natural world to human technologies. It will be held for five consecutive days in June or [...]
The Georgia State University Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research will host four workshops on foreign language teaching in July in Atlanta. The schedule of workshops: “Technology and Foreign Language Teaching,” July 6-8 “Enhancing Your Language Instruction: SLA Basics for Teachers,” July 9-11 “Assessment in the Language Classroom,” July 13-15 “Teaching Heritage Language Learners: Needs and Networks,” July 16-18 [...]
The Air Quality for Educators Workshop, a hands-on day of environmental education designed to make the abstract world of air quality more tangible, will be held June 12 at the Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery near Jamestown. Participants will participate in activities and receive resources that can make air quality come alive for students. Teachers will receive materials geared toward [...]
The Kentucky Youth Storytelling competition, a statewide effort to develop, encourage, and highlight the talent of our young storytellers, is open to children ages 8-17. Participants submit a single 7- to 11-minute story told by one storyteller or a tandem team on DVD. Winners will receive a $100 cash prize, a one-year membership in the Kentucky Storytelling Association and the [...]
Culinary arts and special education students at Boyd County High School are learning from each other as they work together in a program designed to benefit both groups.
The registration deadline for the Academy for the Integration of the Arts and Literacy, one of four arts academies and arts integration academies offered this summer by the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, has been extended. Teachers may now register through May 8 for the arts-literacy academy July 20-23 in Florence. The academy is open to teachers in grades [...]
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Louisville Branch will host a one-day global economic forum for educators June 29 in Louisville. “Globalization and the U.S. Economy” will examine the phenomenon of globalization and its continual impact on the U.S. economy. It will feature St. Louis Fed economists discussing current trends in globalization and how the increase in global trade [...]
The Item Writers Algebra Readiness competition, a user-friendly tool that will allow teachers to collaborate and engage in competition as they help their students succeed in algebra, is now available online. The resource, the first in a series that will focus on innovative, open-source item development for formative use, is designed to help educators find and share items that are [...]
Students in Anderson County Middle School's STEM class are finding solutions for problems that might affect the world they live in years from now as part of an innovative project.
Jessamine County schools illustrate their emphasis on arts and humanities with new district-wide coordinators.