The American Geosciences Institute/ExxonMobil Exploration Teacher Leadership Academies is recruiting teachers for its annual institute next summer in Houston. Two week-long academies – one June 25-30 for teachers in grades K-5 and one July 16-21 for middle school teachers – help prepare a cadre of teachers to share key ideas in the geosciences with their colleagues, students and others. [...]
A professional learning program for English/language arts teachers in grades 5-12 on using multimedia to engage students will be Feb. 28 at Somerset Community and Technical College, Laurel Campus, in London. “Using Multi-Media and LDC Mini-Tasks to Enhance Student Writing” will be presented by Kentucky Department of Education Instructional Specialists Jackie Rogers and Kelly Philbeck. Participants in the program will [...]
Sayre School will host the F. Kevin Simon History Symposium on the theme, “War and Memory: American and European Perspectives on the Great War, 1914-1918,” on Feb. 25 at the school in Lexington. The featured speakers and their topics will be: Karen Petrone, University of Kentucky: “Remembering and Forgetting World War I: Contrasting Eastern and Western European Memory” Ashley Sorrell, [...]
The Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA) is offering a professional learning program on deeper learning March 2 at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville. Deeper learning develops competencies that enable graduating students to be college- and career-ready and make maximum use of their knowledge and skills. “Deeper Learning: Leadership from Accidental to Intentional” will introduce educators to the basic [...]
The College Board is offering two scholarship opportunities for Advanced Placement teachers to attend the AP Summer Institute June 26-30 at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green for free. The institutes are suited for both first-year AP teachers and veteran AP teachers who are looking to refine their curriculum and approach. The scholarships are available to teachers at schools without [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education’s Division of Next Generation Professionals is accepting proposals for the 2017 Learning from Kentucky’s Classrooms Conference, which will be held Sept. 9 in Bowling Green. The conference will highlight the innovative work happening in classrooms across Kentucky, specifically work aligned to the Instructional Transformation grant, including: Effective implementation of English/language arts, math and science standards (including the Literacy Design Collaborative and Math Design Collaborative); Innovative [...]
The Race to the Top Kid-FRIENDLy (Kids-Focused, Responsible, Imaginative, Engaged, Determined to Learn) Personalized Learning Symposium will be Feb. 28 for elementary school educators and March 2 for middle school and high school educators at Green River Regional Educational Cooperative (GRREC) in Bowling Green. There will be three morning sessions presented in a TeachMeet format and afternoon sessions in an [...]
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 [...]
