The Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics will hold its annual conference Oct. 10 at Martha Layne Collins High School in Shelbyville. The theme is “Student Mathematicians in Action,” and sessions will be designed to support the network of teachers and teacher leaders in Kentucky. The deadline for an early registration discount is Oct. 2. Speaker proposals also will be accepted [...]
Kentucky teachers in grades 3-12 are invited to apply for a free residential experience at George Washington’s Mount Vernon on Sept. 10-13 in Mount Vernon, Virginia. “A Weekend With George Washington” is a four-day, immersive residential program for teachers from Kentucky and Missouri. Attendees will participate in an intensive study of George Washington and his world through a curriculum that [...]
A free professional learning experience and support for mathematics teachers is being offered by the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Center for Mathematics (KCM) and the Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services this summer in Highland Heights. “Gathering High Quality Data for Responsive Teaching and Learning, P-12” will focus on formative assessment, questioning strategies, and selection/use of rich tasks [...]
Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan, authors of the Picture-Perfect Science lesson series, will hold two workshops on how to use scientific inquiry, the 5 E’s instructional model and reading comprehension strategies and how to train other teachers to do the same Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Ashland. “Picture-Perfect Science: Using Picture Books to Guide Inquiry” will consist of a teacher workshop for teachers [...]
The Ky NT3’s Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions (CTEPS) initiative is seeking National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) from across Kentucky to support each other in its work to propose, implement and reflect on solutions to the challenges we face in our classrooms, schools and districts. CTEPS will collaborate throughout the 2015-16 school year to create, research, implement and reflect on [...]
The Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children (KECSAC) will host its 14th annual Alternative Strategies for Educating Students At-Risk: A Conference for Educators in Alternative Settings July 29-30 at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. The conference is free. Click here for more information or to register.
Kentucky State University, the Life Adventure Center at Buckley Wildlife Sanctuary and the Kentucky Environmental Education Council will offer a Project Learning Tree K-8 curriculum workshop focusing on outdoor and wildlife-related activities July 8 at Buckley Wildlife Sanctuary near Frankfort. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The registration fee is $15, which includes lunch. Click [...]
The Kentucky Center for Mathematics (KCM) will offer a SNAP (Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions) training session July 20-21 in Lebanon. The two-day course for K-2 teachers, teaching assistants and parent volunteers is an introduction to the assessment and advancement of early learning of numbers and arithmetic. The registration fee is $200; the registration deadline is July 10. Click here for [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education Coordinated School Health Team will host two free summer professional learning opportunities this summer at locations across the state. “Agents of Change: Making Healthy Schools the Norm” is a Kentucky School Health and Physical Education Network (KySHAPE) professional learning event in which the Coordinated School Health Team will partner with educational cooperatives to provide professional [...]
A workshop on educating students about air quality has been rescheduled and another on climate change in Southern forests is scheduled on consecutive days July 23-24 at Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery near Jamestown. “Southeastern Forests and Climate Change,” which will introduce a new Project Learning Tree (PLT) secondary module on climate change impacts on Southern forest ecosystems, the role [...]
