The Louisville Writing Project will host a mini-conference on writing and reading strategies for K-12 teachers and college professors 16 and on writing college essays Sept. 9 at Davidson Hall on the University of Louisville campus. The workshop will include special strands on writing with special populations, such as special education and ESL students, and a writing workshop in elementary [...]
The Grant Training Center will host a professional grant development workshop Aug. 21-22 at the University of Louisville. The workshop is designed for those who want to strengthen their grant writing skills and for beginners who want to acquire proven techniques of preparing and writing winning proposals. Participants will learn how to: navigate the world of grant procurement; research and [...]
The Build Math Minds Virtual Summit is a free online professional learning event from July 31-Aug. 2 for pre-K through 5th-grade teachers. Christina Tondevold is the founder of this summit and has 27 of her favorite presenters host virtual learning sessions. Each presentation will be made available for viewing at the scheduled time and will remain available to everyone with [...]
The Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host its annual Teachers’ Workshop Sept. 21 at EKU’s Carl D. Perkins Conference Center in Richmond. The workshop theme is, “Assuring Growth Across All Groups.” It will offer best practices for developing and implementing curriculum and instruction methods that create and encourage growth mindset among students of varying ability [...]
Registration is open for the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education’s (KAEE) annual conference Sept. 7-9 at Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park in Gilbertsville. The conference is open to educators and others, and will include more than 30 sessions and opportunities for collaboration across schools and other organizations. The conference theme is “Bridging the Gap: Discovering Opportunities for Collaboration and [...]
Teachers, interventionists and library media specialists are invited to join Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions (CTEPS) in a collaborative effort throughout the 2017-18 school year to create, research, implement and reflect on a plan to remove barriers to student learning. Teachers participating in the program will create, enact and reflect on a plan to solve a problem in a classroom, [...]
The Kentucky Environmental Education Council (KEEC) will host a water quality and conservation workshop July 18 at the Thomas More College Biology Field Station near California. The workshop is open to teachers from all grade levels and content areas. Educators will learn how to teach lessons focusing on water quality and water conservation in all grade levels, view demonstrations, conduct [...]
The Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) will host an online moderator training session for teachers interested in learning about using Common Ground for Action (CGA) online forums in the classroom Aug. 15 and 16. The four-hour session will cover: how to set up a CGA forum; the moderator’s responsibilities; hacks and tricks for moderating; practice exercises [...]
Mammoth Cave National Park, Western Kentucky University and the Kentucky University Partnership in Environmental Education will offer a free climate literacy workshop for middle school and high school teachers July 20 at Mammoth Cave. Participants will learn about best practices and resources for teaching climate literacy and common misconceptions. Participants will be eligible to apply for a grant of up [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education and the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) will host a national peer review workshop July 18-19 at Indiana Wesleyan University’s campus in Lexington. The workshop is suited both for educators who want to join the national community of LDC peer reviewers and those who simply want to renew their thinking about curriculum quality in their school [...]