Learn how to create a healthy school community
RMC Health, a professional development organization, has released a tool to assist schools in transforming into healthy school communities.
Free mini-course about global education
Primary Source – a developer of global online professional learning and resources – in collaboration with the National Educational Associate, have a comprehensive four-hour long mini professional learning course about global education.
Strategic Education Research Partnership offers free literacy resources
The Strategic Education Research Partnership offers free tools for educators to help them teach word recognition, fluency and vocabulary in today’s classrooms.
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.
Find new resources with the Kentucky Numeracy Project Intervention Guide
The Kentucky Numeracy Project Intervention Guide is a free instructional resource for all Kentucky teachers.
Free math resource
Kentucky’s Summer Math Challenge is a free math skills maintenance program based on grade-level standards that help prepare students for college and careers.
TELL Kentucky response sets record; results due next month
Kentucky educators have set a new record with their response to the 2015 Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Kentucky Survey. Nearly 45,000 – 89.3 percent – of school-based certified educators completed it, surpassing the 2013 response rate of 87 percent and setting a new national record among states that administer the working conditions survey. The TELL Kentucky Survey is [...]
White House site offers early literacy tools, resources
The end of third grade is the point at which children transition from learning to read to utilizing reading skills to understand the content of all subject areas. To strengthen third-grade reading proficiency for all students, particularly for students of color and students with disabilities, the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Taskforce has established a dedicated early literacy website to [...]
Teachers can get plenty of help in implementing standards
Tricia Shelton By Tricia Shelton tricia.shelton@boone.kyschools.us The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Framework for K-12 Science Education articulate a beautiful vision for our students. The overarching goal of the standards is a coherent and rigorous science education for all students that enables them to be critical consumers of science and attain the scientific literacy necessary to [...]
KASC offers professional learning do-it-yourself toolkits
The Kentucky Association of School Councils is offering a variety of toolkits to provide the resources you need for quality professional learning with follow-up experiences and materials in every kit. Many include delivery guides for their popular training sessions and allow you to customize the sessions to meet the needs of your staff. Whether you have 1 hour, 3 hours [...]