Grant opportunity for Summer Institute participants
The Albert I. Pierce Foundation is offering a one-time grant for a Kentucky teacher who has participated in the Teacher Renewal Summer Institute.
Finding teacher renewal in the woods
The Teacher Renewal Summer Institute is an opportunity for educators at all levels to learn, grow and make lasting relationships through common interests.
Writing Program Advisory Committee accepting nominations
Nominations are open for the Writing Program Advisory Committee, a board appointed by the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) to analyze the program of studies of grades 7-10 and to make recommendations to KBE concerning all areas related to writing programs. The board, which is required by Kentucky Revised Statute 158.770, is composed of nine members and typically meets once [...]
Poetry Out Loud contest open to high schoolers
High schools are invited to participate in Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation contest in which students recite poems at class, school, state and national levels. The contest gives students an opportunity to select, memorize and perform poems in front of peers and audiences, ultimately gaining a better understanding of poetry and themselves. Poetry Out Loud helps students master [...]
Kentucky Text Set Project connects teachers and books
The Kentucky Text Set Project is intensive training designed to help teachers begin creating challenging, grade-level specific texts sets over a variety of engaging literacy and literary topics.
Kentucky Reading Association conference set
Mark your calendars for the Kentucky Reading Conference, scheduled for Oct. 28-29 at the Galt House in Louisville.
A tool to build academic language in grades 6-8
The Strategic Education Research Partnership has created a free resource to increase students’ opportunities to develop academic language, discussion and argumentation skills.
Nominations sought for Writing Program Advisory Committee
Nominees should be classroom teachers (K-12) who have an interest in promoting literacy, especially writing, in their classrooms
Shelby County paving the way in creating thinkers through annotating
For the past five years, through a collaboration among Shelby County public schools, the Ohio Valley Education Cooperative and the Public Education Business Coalition of Denver, teachers in the OVEC region have been able to access professional learning on annotating.
Writing to learn
Learn how annotating texts can deepen a student’s understanding of the books they read.