To support educators with the effective implementation of the literacy and mathematical standards, the Kentucky Department of Education will provide regularly scheduled community meetings via Skype focusing on the resources, tools and frameworks of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and the Mathematical Design Collaborative (MDC). The next meetings for each community, with links for more information, are: Literacy Design Collaborative, [...]
The Kentucky Storytelling Conference is accepting workshop proposals on any aspect of storytelling for the conference Nov. 4-5 at the Pike County Public Library District’s Lee Avenue Branch in Pikeville. Workshop presenters will receive free conference registration and are paid a $175 honorarium for a 70-minute session or a $300 honorarium for a 135-minute session. The submission deadline is May [...]
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 [...]