Teacher-, principal-effectiveness system beginning to take shape
Kentucky’s Professional Growth and Evaluation System will use multiple measures to rate teacher and principal effectiveness.
Program Reviews questions and answers
With schools implementing Program Reviews this year, here are answers to questions you may have been asking.
Kentucky Teacher looking for outstanding leaders
Kentucky Teacher is looking to profile outstanding leaders in Kentucky’s public school districts. If you know of an excellent district staff member who has innovative ideas, strong leadership qualities and a passion for helping students become college and career ready, e-mail the following information to Susan Riddell: nominee’s name, position, school and district contact information for nominee examples of how [...]
Kentucky Writing Project
The Kentucky Writing Project Network will host its annual fall conference on literacy at Eastern Kentucky University on Sept. 10. Kentucky Department of Education Program Review Specialist Rae McEntyre will deliver the keynote speech on the new state assessment expectations. Concurrent sessions will focus on the new Kentucky Core Academic Standards; teaching argument; literacy in content areas; visual and media [...]
Fayette County’s SCAPA wins honor
The School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) (Fayette County) has been named winner of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts’ Education Award. The Kentucky Arts Council and Gov. Steve Beshear will present the award to SCAPA at a public ceremony Oct. 20 in the Capitol Rotunda. The Education Award is handed out for significant contributions to the arts [...]
TELL Kentucky survey speaks volumes about districts
Data is meaningful if used to support collaborative efforts to identify and implement best practices within and among Kentucky schools.
Step by step: Clay County students use pedometers to get moving, learning
Pedometers have been a ‘wonderful experience’ for elementary schools.
ACT results for juniors and graduates show improvement
Overall results from the 2011 administration of the ACT to Kentucky’s public school juniors and public school graduates show improvements in all subject areas and higher percentages of students ready for college-level coursework.
Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The 2011 Annual Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) Conference will be Oct. 8 at South Warren High School in Bowling Green. With the implementation of the Kentucky Core Academic Standards, the theme this year is Driving the Standards: Content and Practices. Several sessions will be addressing both the content and practice standards. Those registered by Sept. 1 are [...]
Scholarship money prize for video contest
ACT’s new video contest is calling on students to tell their friends why they should take the ACT. Winning entries could win thousands of dollars in scholarship money. The contest encourages students to think creatively as they make plans to attend college. Participants must be U.S. high school students who plan to apply for admission to a U.S. two-year or [...]