Students selected for Commissioner’s Student Council
Sixteen Kentucky public high school students have been named to the Commissioner’s Student Council, a group that provides input to Kentucky Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt.
24 Valvoline Teacher Achievement Award winners named
The Kentucky Department of Education and Valvoline™ have selected 24 outstanding Kentucky educators as recipients of the 2017 Valvoline Teacher Achievement Awards. These teachers qualify to compete for the 2017 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Award, which will be announced next month.
‘Like a grandfather for every student’
Daviess County’s Kenny Kelley brings home the 2016 Fred Award from the Kentucky Association of School Administrators.
16 schools receive National Healthy Schools Award
Sixteen Kentucky schools have been named winners of the National Healthy Schools Award by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The awards were announced recently by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national organization founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation whose goal is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and to empower children to [...]
Teachers share their experiences of creating formative assessment lessons
Two teachers share their experiences of being part a group of Kentucky teachers developing formative assessment lessons for grades K-5.
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.
Daviess County summer programs blossom on converted bus
The Exploration Station helped schools combat summer slide by taking summer programs directly to the students who need them most.
Kentucky School for the Blind students author book
Seven students from the Kentucky School for the Blind are hoping to release the first-ever professionally published anthology written by blind and visually-impaired teenagers this fall.
ATC students help get summer program rolling
Students in Barren County played a key role in readying a bus for the district’s summer reading and meals program.
Campaigning for coherence in math
Kentucky teachers have been engaged with the Kentucky Core Advocate network to support the implementation of Kentucky’s Academic Standards and help bring math coherence to the state’s classrooms.
