Collaboration between middle, elementary students the ‘write’ project
Jefferson County Traditional Middle School and Cochran Elementary have formed a partnership to give young authors a real audience, and young readers real role models.
Blue Ribbon School goes for mastery minus the grades
Gamaliel Elementary teachers rely on standards-based grading system, collaboration.
Young students are the perfect age to learn world languages
More elementary schools are adding language programs in Kentucky.
Step by step: Clay County students use pedometers to get moving, learning
Pedometers have been a ‘wonderful experience’ for elementary schools.
Great by 8 statewide summit June 21-22
Great by 8, a statewide initiative to educate and engage local communities to improve economic growth through advocacy for early education, is hosting a statewide summit June 21-22 in Louisville. The goal of Great by 8 is to expand and strengthen support to programs and services for Kentucky’s children from birth through age 8. The effort emphasizes building leadership capacity [...]
Wilkerson named state History Teacher of the Year
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) announced recently that Donnie Wilkerson, a teacher at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County) has been named the 2011 Kentucky History Teacher of the Year. Wilkerson has been teaching at Jamestown Elementary for seven years after a diverse career that included owning several businesses and serving as the mayor of Jamestown from 1993-98. […]
Mission complete
Online game brings in knowledge and fun, not to mention a few awards.