The Kentucky Department of Education is offering a series of 12 in-person training sessions on the Kentucky Individual Learning Plan (ILP), a student career tool intended to help students search for career options, locate scholarship opportunities, explore the employability outlooks, compare colleges and more. The hands-on, interactive sessions are designed to inform teachers, counselors, advisers, administrative staff and designated school [...]
Teachers are encouraged to submit proposals to be presenters at the Kentucky Education Association's Let’s TALK: Conversations About Effective Teaching conference June 12-13 at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School in Lexington. The conference is designed to inform participants about effective strategies for improving professional practice through instructional strategies and new leadership roles. Presentations should demonstrate ways in which classroom teachers [...]
High school girls in Fayette and surrounding counties are invited to the Young Women LEAD (Leadership, Education and Development) Conference March 7 at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. The conference is designed to inspire young women to believe in their qualities and strengths and to challenge them to believe in a higher level of personal growth and development. The conference [...]
The Kentucky NEED (National Energy Education Development) Project is offering four second-semester energy education workshops for educators who want to learn more about energy and the resources available through the NEED program. Participants will engage in Kentucky Academic Standards-aligned activities that cover forms and sources of energy, energy transformations and more. The schedule of workshops, with links to register: Feb. [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education is offering the KY Math Academy, an online professional learning program designed to increase mathematical knowledge for teaching in order to positively impact student learning. One-hour sessions will be offered Feb. 2, Feb. 16 and March 2. The program will focus on the eight effective teaching practices from the National Council of Teachers’ of Mathematics’ [...]
Applications are being accepted for the PBS Digital Innovators program, which recognizes preK-12 teachers and administrators who excel at using technology and digital media to support student learning and serve as leaders in educational technology. One Kentucky educator will be chosen as a PBS Digital Innovators and will receive a three day, all-expense paid trip to San Antonio to participate in [...]
George Washington’s Mount Vernon is offering the George Washington Teacher Institute Summer Residential Programs, five-day immersive professional learning experiences designed to support K-12 educators who teach about the life, leadership and legacy of George Washington and the 18th-century world in which he lived. The best elements of Mount Vernon’s residential programs are accessible to educators, with a different thematic focus [...]
Applications are open for The National WWII Museum Summer Teacher Institute, a professional learning opportunity for high school social studies teachers that includes a week-long seminar at the museum in New Orleans in July 2017 and a trip to Normandy, France, in July 2018. The program focuses on strategies for teaching about World War II in Europe. The lead scholar [...]
The Kentucky Association of School Administrators has added seats to a previously closed six-hour session that is the final part of the Response to Intervention training series Jan. 30 at the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative in Bowling Green. “Maximizing Student Achievement in All Three Tiers of Instruction,” led by consultant and former principal Mike Mattos, will focus primarily on [...]
The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI) will offer four one-day seminars in its China Studies for Kentucky Teachers program beginning in December. Topics will be Chinese religions and philosophies, Chinese art, Chinese literature and Chinese history. The seminars are designed to enrich social studies teachers’ knowledge of the topics so they can be integrated into their classrooms. The first [...]