Henry Webb The Kentucky Educational Development Cooperation (KEDC) recently named Floyd County school district’s Henry Webb as a KEDC 2013 Superintendent of the Year. KEDC is Kentucky’s largest and oldest educational cooperative. A lifelong resident of Floyd County and product of the school system, Webb has 18 years of service in education and has been superintendent the past [...]
The Kentucky Secretary of State’s office has extended by two weeks the deadline for its annual essay and slogan contests. The contests are an effort to expand civic awareness of students who will soon be eligible to vote in local, state and national elections. Entries for both programs must be either postmarked by December 16, 2013, or electronically submitted by [...]
Gov. Steve Beshear recently made several appointments to education-related boards and commissions. Debra Katie Bentley, a community support coordinator at NorthKey Community Care, and Anita C. Dowd, an executive staff adviser at the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, were appointed to the Kentucky State Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children. Beshear also reappointed the following members to the panel: Martha [...]
Join nearly 2,000 information technology leaders, technicians, tech resource/integration specialists, classroom teachers, administrators/district leaders, library media specialists, vendors/exhibitors, and other education professionals at the largest education technology conference in the south central US at KySTE 2014, the conference of the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education, March 5-7, 2014 at the Galt House in Louisville. This year’s conference theme is [...]
A live webinar “Next-Gen World Language Learning” will be Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. EST with Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, a learning advocacy firm, and author of Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World. Vander Ark will discuss the findings of the recently published Next-Gen World Language Learning white paper. Other discussions will include: language [...]
The Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching program sends highly accomplished primary and secondary teachers from the U.S. abroad and brings international teachers to the U.S for a three to six month long program. The maximum award for the program covers program costs such as tuition, room and board, and transportation. Participants will receive a maintenance allowance designed to assist with the costs [...]
The Council for Exceptional Children Conference is hosting an open forum at the Galt House in Louisville on Nov. 25. Parents, children and families are invited to attend this forum to discuss topics related to services for exceptional children. Attendees will be encouraged to share views on important issues so the panel can appropriately advise the Kentucky Department of Education [...]
Nominations are currently being taken for the 2014 Kentucky History Teacher of the Year. All nominations must be submitted on the Gilder Lehrman website at: www.gilderlehrman.org/nhtoy. The History Teacher of the Year award alternates every other year between elementary and middle/high school teachers. Only middle school and high school teachers (grades 7-12) will be considered for the 2014 award. Nominators [...]
Twelve Kentucky public school districts have been selected for inclusion in the College Board’s 4th annual Advanced Placement (AP) District Honor Roll. The honor roll includes 477 public and private districts throughout the U.S. and Canada that increased access to Advanced Placement courses for a broader number of students while also maintaining or improving the rate at which their AP students earned [...]
Teachers and students will benefit from gaining deeper understanding of science content.