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Targeted Transitional Interventions available

Appropriately planned transitional interventions will help more students reach college readiness benchmarks, increasing CCR rates. EPAS-related interventions are required by law. Regulation outlines requirements for transitional courses/ interventions for addressing all students’ needs in meeting statewide college readiness benchmarks. KDE has made high school transitional course curriculum frameworks available, free of charge, to schools/districts to utilize for mathematics, reading and [...]

By |2013-09-12T09:25:46-04:00September 12, 2013|

Local School Board Members Advisory Council accepting applications

Local school board members have the opportunity to become a member of the Commissioner’s Local School Board Members Advisory Council. The council meets to discuss how KDE initiatives and decisions made at the state level are affecting school boards and districts throughout Kentucky. The role of local school board members is important to the work the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is doing and [...]

By |2013-09-10T08:50:59-04:00September 12, 2013|

Kentucky Continuous Improvement Summit Sept. 30

The Kentucky Continuous Improvement Summit: Focusing on Best Practice will be held on Monday, September 30 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ET at the Louisville Marriott East. The goals of the Summit are as follows: Help build school and district capacity to effectively plan and implement improvement initiatives targeting student achievement and the conditions that support learning; Recognize school leaders who [...]

By |2013-09-12T09:31:16-04:00September 12, 2013|

Suicide prevention training available

The Kentucky Center for School Safety has partnered with the Kentucky Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Kentucky Suicide Prevention Group to provide Question, Persuade & Refer Training (QPR)  that is being implemented as a state model for suicide prevention. This model teaches to recognize the risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs associated with depression, [...]

By |2013-09-05T11:22:24-04:00September 5, 2013|

Arts Inclusion Program grants available

VSA Kentucky, in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, is offering funding awards of $1250 for up to 30 schools throughout Kentucky in inclusionary, hands-on arts projects through the Arts Inclusion Program. This arts in education program is VSAKY’s largest offering in every Congressional District in Kentucky and consists of artist residencies (using artists from the adjudicated VSA Kentucky [...]

By |2020-10-09T12:20:19-04:00September 5, 2013|

Governor makes appointments to councils

Gov. Steve Beshear recently made several appointments and reappointments to the Kentucky Early Childhood Advisory Council and the Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. New appointments to the Kentucky Early Childhood Advisory Council include: Kevin L. Nix is director of early childhood education at Jefferson County school district. He represents Local Head Start. The appointment replaces Aubrey Nehring, whose term [...]

By |2013-09-05T10:30:45-04:00September 5, 2013|

Education advocate named head of GCIPL

Cindy Baumert Cindy Baumert has been named director of the Governor’s Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership (GCIPL), a program of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Baumert is a 2000 graduate of the program, which helps parents become knowledgeable and effective partners in efforts to improve local schools. She also has been a member of the Prichard Committee [...]

By |2013-09-03T11:42:45-04:00August 29, 2013|

Book Fair Travel Grant

The Kentucky Book Fair, Inc. invites you to apply for a library travel grant provided by Graviss’ McDonald’s and proceeds from the 2012 Kentucky Book Fair. The grant is established to help finance travel for school and public library groups to Children’s Day on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, at the Frankfort Convention Center. Minimum grants will be $250 and maximum [...]

By |2019-04-03T14:02:23-04:00August 29, 2013|

Social Studies conference planned for Oct. 9-10

The 2013 Annual Conference for the Kentucky Council for the Social Studies is Oct. 9-10 in Bowling Green at the Sloane Convention Center/Holiday Inn University Plaza. The theme for this year’s conference “Social Studies: Charting a Course for the Future” reflects the many disciplines and routes that teachers take as they prepare students for life after graduation. The conference offers 35+ sessions covering many [...]

By |2013-09-03T11:44:46-04:00August 29, 2013|

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