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 [...]
Join educators who are working to support teachers using the Literacy Design Collaborative framework at a two-day LDC Coaches Institute in Lexington. The session is intended for teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and administrators who are working with other teachers on implementing LDC tasks and modules in science, social studies and English/language arts classrooms. The institute will concentrate on effective communication and [...]
The schedule for the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education’s Fall Event is now available. Digital Transformation is the theme of the event, held in partnership with the University of Kentucky. Among the sessions: Why 1-1?/Leading in a 1:1 Environment What KASA Can do for the CIO/DTC: A Roundtable Discussion Kentucky Educators and Twitter: A Match Made in 140-Character Heaven [...]
A free Take Stock in Kentucky webinar at which educators can learn to use an abbreviated version of the Stock Market Game will be offered from 5 to 6:30 p.m. ET Tuesday. Game dates are Oct. 6 through Dec. 12. In the Take Stock in Kentucky Stock Market Game, student teams invest a virtual $100,000 in stocks using a real-world [...]
