The Kentucky Historical Society and the University of Kentucky College of Education will conduct a short professional learning workshop for social studies teachers and other interested educators April 29 on the UK campus in Lexington. The 90-minute workshop, “Taking a Stand in History,” will have one session on the key elements of the inquiry design model and one session on [...]
The American Association of University Women Bluegrass Central Branch and Kentucky State University will host an AAUW National Tech Savvy program May 21 on the KSU campus in Frankfort. The daylong program for girls in grades 6-9 is designed to show girls how studying in STEM fields can lead to careers. Female professionals in STEM fields will lead workshops and [...]
The Kentucky Association of School Librarians annual Summer Refresher will be July 19 at North Oldham High School in Goshen.
The Southern Regional Education Board will host its annual High Schools That Work staff development conference July 13-16 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville. The conference is designed for K-12 teachers, principals, counselors and district leaders. It will feature more than 500 presentations, best practices and panel discussions centered around literacy and math strategies, career pathways in high-demand [...]
The Kentucky Bar Association and Northern Kentucky University will host “Why Choose Law: Diversity Matters” on June 16-17 on the NKU campus in Highland Heights. The program is geared toward high school juniors and seniors from groups that typically are underrepresented in law school classes. It is designed to encourage these students to become lawyers and to practice in Kentucky [...]
“Discipline Strategies from Successful Teachers of African American Adolescents,” a research-based professional learning program offering educators the opportunity to obtain leadership skills needed to positively influence students with disruptive behavior, will be held April 28 at Carnegie Literacy Center in Lexington. The seminar is based on the doctoral dissertation of Carolyn Bowman, an English professor at Bluegrass Community and Technical [...]
The Kentucky Writing Project has partnered with Zoom In, which offers a package of 18 short online American history lessons, to offer two summer academies for teachers to learn how to use the units and free access to the resources for one year for participants in the academies. The lessons, which were developed by the Education Development Center, are for [...]
The Kentucky NEED Project's 2016 Kentucky Energy Conference for Educators will be held June 12-17 as a tour, with stops throughout central Kentucky focusing on energy efficiency, conservation and sustainability. The bus tour will bring together teachers who are passionate about bringing energy education to their classrooms, providing them with the most up-to-date information on all aspects of energy, including [...]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office will hold its National Summer Teacher Institute on Innovation, STEM and Intellectual Property July 17-22 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. The program for K-12 educators combines training tools, practices and project-based learning models to help l teachers incorporate the concepts of making, inventing and innovation into classroom instruction. The central focus [...]
Registration is open for the Berea Festival of Learnshops July 8-24, which includes workshops lasting from two hours to two days on topics ranging from creative writing to blacksmithing, as well as professional development for educators. A two-day Arts in Education package includes three to nine hours of hands-on sessions and three to nine hours of arts education updates and [...]