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 [...]
The 2011 Kentucky School Public Relations Association (KYSPRA) Fall Institute will focus on the essential elements of leadership and the development of skills that will take districts to the next level. Several leadership experts, motivational speakers and public relations (PR) skill-building experts are scheduled to appear, including: Stu Silberman, long-time Kentucky superintendent (Daviess and Fayette counties) and recently-named executive director [...]
The film, Forks Over Knives, the new documentary film showing the relationship between diet and disease prevention, has been held over for several more weeks at the Village 8 Theater on Dutchmans Lane in Louisville. Teachers can view the film for $3. Rep. Tom Riner, co-chair of the state Childhood Obesity Task Force, encourages educators to view this film featuring [...]
The Summer Career Discovery Program, an intensive two-week program held at the University of Kentucky College of Design from July 10-22, is open to high school students who will be juniors and seniors this fall. The program will introduce students to design education, including the study of architecture and interior design. The centerpiece of the program will be an intensive [...]
For school districts seeking training to develop specialists in early mathematics intervention, the Math Recovery Intervention Specialist Course gives teachers the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge and expertise in student numeracy development. The course will be taught Aug. 9-12 in Louisville, For a registration link, go to the KCM’s Growth Opportunities webpage.
The Library of Congress has made available more than three million music and spoken-word recordings for online public streaming as part of a new National Jukebox project, a joint venture between the library and Sony Music that will give free access to thousands of Sony-controlled recordings long out of circulation because of commercial or copyright issues. Some of the 10,000 [...]
Registration is open for the 2011 Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE) Conference in Louisville on Sept. 16- 17. For information about workshops that require pre-registration, go to the onsite and offsite workshop pre-registration brochure. To register now, visit the conference page at www.kaee.org/conference.
The Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) is seeking nominations for the positions of treasurer, elementary vice-president and college vice-president. Teachers elected to these positions will serve for two years beginning in January 2012, and they will be invited to the fall 2011 meeting in November to become oriented with their new positions. Persons holding these positions also will [...]