Middlebury Interactive offers resources to help launch, expand or transition current language curriculum to a digital format with K-12 courses are developed by academics using Middlebury College pedagogy and teaching methodology. Courses integrate communication, culture, connections, comparisons and communities to immerse students in their target language and can be used fully online, in a blended learning environment or as supplemental [...]
Safe Schools Week is Oct. 20-26, and the Kentucky Center for School Safety encourages all schools across Kentucky to participate. The week's focus will be on "Safety," "Teamwork," "Opportunities," and "Power" -- all stakeholders will be encouraged to get involved and S.T.O.P.! Bullying, Violence and Risky Behavior in schools, which supports a safe, respectful, climate where all can succeed. The Center for School Safety has developed [...]
The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network and National School Boards Association Award is open for nominations. The winning school board receives a plaque, along with a cash award of $10,000 for arts education programs. Details can be found here. Since 1989, this annual award had been presented to a school board that has demonstrated support for and commitment [...]
CTE Teacher of the Year keeps her students focused on their future.
The Kentucky Historical Society’s HistoryMobile is available to visit elementary, middle and high schools in Kentucky. This full-sized tractor trailer contains an interactive exhibition called “Torn Within and Threatened Without: Kentuckians in the Civil War Era,” which uses personal recollections, authentic artifacts and touch-screen activities to teach critical thinking, literacy and college and career readiness. Student activities are tied to [...]
Dixie Heights High School (Kenton County) English teacher Kris Gillis was selected to participate in the three-day 2013 NBC News Education Nation Summit at the New York Public Library. This year’s event focused on what it takes to get a student through the public education system, ready for success in college, career and his or her community. The cornerstone of [...]
A STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Consortium meeting will be held Oct. 17 in Louisville. This meeting, open to the public, will feature discussions of issues related to the development and delivery of accessible curricular content in the STEM areas of the Core Curriculum. The discussion panel will include some of the leading experts on STEM access from around [...]
Read Across America grants for 2013-14 have been awarded to 11 local Kentucky Education Association chapters as well as four student program chapters. The recipients were selected by KEA’s Read Across America Grants Committee from a pool of applicants that submitted proposals. The grant winners (and the amounts of their grants) are: KEA local associations Adair County Education Association ($200) [...]
Kristal Doolin In my first article last year, I used the word “surreal” more than once to describe being named 2013 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. In the closing statements of that article I said, “I cannot wait to meet and learn from other dedicated educators here in Kentucky and across the nation. “Surreal” can hardly describe it.” [...]
GreenPal has established a Small Business Scholarship is to assist a motivated, driven student and future business leader. High school seniors or college freshmen and sophomores currently running a small business while attending college, or those who have a small business idea to start while planning to attend college, may apply. The deadline to apply is Feb. 28, 2014, and [...]