The 2014 Opportunity Youth Summit, hosted by the Kentucky Department of Workforce Investment, will be held Nov. 17 and 18 in Louisville. First Lady Jane Beshear will give the keynote address; other speakers will include Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson and Miss Kentucky Ramsey Carpenter. The first day of the summit will include an overview of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity [...]
How can teachers ensure that all children, including millions affected by dyslexia, the most common type of reading disability, learn to read and write proficiently? To close the literacy achievement gap, support measures must be embedded in schools and include all stakeholders – administrators, teachers, parents and children. Educator and researcher Margie Gillis, president of Literacy How Inc., will share [...]
The 39th annual meeting of the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History (KATH) will be held Oct. 17-18 in Louisville. KATH is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Civil Rights Act. Saturday’s keynote speaker will be Cate Fosl of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, University of Louisville (see more at our website). In addition to the [...]
Twice each year, the Kentucky Bread Loaf Teacher Network meets to discuss and plan innovative, student-led collaborative projects. The next meeting is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 1 at Lafayette High School, 401 Reed Lane, Lexington. For information, contact Christopher McCurry or visit http://www.middlebury.edu/blse/bltn. The Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN) is a network of teachers educated at Bread [...]
The Common Core State Standards in English/Language arts, as well as other college-and career-ready standards, place strong emphases on critical literacy, cross-curricular learning, and cultural understanding. A free Education Week webinar will explore how some educators are using those levers to create interdisciplinary units that integrate a variety of texts and learning methods to help students delve into social issues, [...]
The Appalachian Renaissance Initiative (ARI) will hold a Promising Practices Summit from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the Eastern Kentucky Expo Center in Pikeville. ARI, funded by a federal grant, is working to bring new technology to 17 districts and 99 schools in the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative. Event highlights will include: Authentic demonstrations of teaching [...]
The assessment field in K-12 education is in a period of transition — sparked by widespread dissatisfaction with conventional testing formats, changes in technology and developments in the learning sciences. In an Education Week webinar from 3 to 4 p.m. Oct. 20, two highly regarded experts in assessment innovation will discuss promising new and developing approaches to testing (both formative [...]
Registration has opened for the Kentucky Center for Mathematics’ 2015 annual conference, "Engage!" The conference be held March 9 and 10 at the Hilton Lexington/Downtown in Lexington. Speaker proposals are being accepted through Dec. 13. For more information, visit the conference website. The conference flier is here. Questions? Contact Mandy McDonough, KCM communications and events coordinator, at kcm@nku.edu.
Preschool and early-childhood education is grabbing a lot of attention from policymakers. But the challenge for proponents is to create a system that offers a high-quality program for young learners. At a free webinar from 2 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 6, join Laura Bornfreund, the deputy director of the Early Childhood Initiative for the New America Foundation, and Debi [...]
An Education Week webinar aimed at helping teachers meet the new English/Language Arts standards will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 8. Webinar topics will include: Increasing the quantity of writing throughout the school day Helping students improve writing by analyzing complex texts Making the writing process a vehicle of instruction Teaching opinion and informative/explanatory writing across [...]