The KET Young Writers Contest gives students in grades K-8 the opportunity to ignite their imaginations through creative writing. The contest is designed to promote the advancement of children’s literacy skills through hands-on, active learning and empowers children to celebrate creativity and build literacy skills by writing their own stories. There are three competitions: an illustrated story contest for grades [...]
Applications are being accepted for the PBS Digital Innovators program, which recognizes preK-12 teachers and administrators who excel at using technology and digital media to support student learning and serve as leaders in educational technology. One Kentucky educator will be chosen as a PBS Digital Innovators and will receive a three day, all-expense paid trip to San Antonio to participate in [...]
Kentucky Educational Television (KET) received two awards from the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) at NETA’s recent annual professional development conference in Baltimore. “News Quiz,” KET’s long-running current events program aimed at students in grades 4-8, won a 2016 NETA award in the instructional media – broadcast program category. “Exploraciones,” KET’s new multimedia collection of online tools for teaching Spanish [...]
A new Kentucky Educational Television School Video Project (KETSVP) Challenge focuses on the 2016 election. Student-produced videos related to the election may be submitted. Suggested formats for videos include mock debates, a history of the election process, famous presidents, candidate biographies, an explanation of the electoral college, important election issues and student/teacher interviews. The challenge is open through Nov. 18, [...]
Kentucky Educational Television recently announced the creation of the John R. Hall Endowment for Education, which will raise $2 million to support education in Kentucky. Named in honor of John R. Hall, former CEO of Ashland Oil (now Ashland Inc.) and a longtime supporter of KET, the endowment already has raised $1.3 million. In future years, annual proceeds from the [...]
While the legislature was focused this session on how to deal with the state’s underfunded pension systems, a few education bills made it into law.
Kentucky Educational Television is partnering with the Kentucky Department of Education to create and provide resources to meet the needs of Kentucky teachers and students.
Thirteen Kentucky public school teachers have been selected to participate in the 2016 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators program. The program, which is in its fourth year, honors tech-savvy K-12 educators from across the country who serve as leaders in the use of educational technology and incorporation of digital media into their classrooms. Educators were selected based on videos and written essays [...]
Kentucky Educational Television will host “Echoes and Reflections: Leaders in Holocaust Education,” a professional development program for middle and high school teachers, March 17 in Lexington. Echoes and Reflections is a comprehensive Holocaust education program that prepares educators to teach about the Holocaust in a way that stimulates engagement and critical thinking and allows students to see its relevance to [...]
Kentucky Educational Television has introduced an online professional development course that provides teachers with the tools to facilitate student video production at all levels across the curriculum. “Classroom Video Production” is an introductory course in which participants will learn about video production techniques, basic equipment needs, production roles and careers. Teachers and the KET production team will guide and inspire [...]