This school year, teachers, you have the opportunity to help your students achieve new heights in growth and learning. Are you ready? You can prepare yourself with outstanding primers on classroom management available on Edivation (formerly PD 360) via Kentucky’s Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology system (CIITS). These expert-vetted videos feature teaching best practices with real master teachers in their classrooms. [...]
The Kentucky Council of Teachers of English will hold its 2015 conference in Lexington on Feb. 27-28. The conference theme is "Balancing Passion and Practice: Kentucky Teachers Leading the Way." Featured speakers will include Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday, author Silas House, state Poet Laureate Frank X Walker and educator and consultant ReLeah Lent. Please visit http://kcte.org/confer/ for more information, [...]
Achieve and the Teaching Channel have launched their new partnership by releasing three videos that introduce and explore Achieve's Evaluating Quality Instructional Products (EQuIP) initiative. The videos, which are publicly available for viewing on Teaching Channel's website (www.teachingchannel.org), introduce the EQuIP Peer Review process and provide an in-depth look at real teachers using the mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) [...]
Eight professional artists have been added to the Kentucky Arts Council’s Teaching Artists Directory to work with educators to design and implement quality arts education programs in Kentucky schools. The directory features artists from various disciplines. It connects schools and educators with artists who produce high-quality work and who can assist in the creation of arts programming in schools around [...]
The application deadline for Read Across America, the literacy program best-known for being celebrated on Read Across America Day (March 2, Dr. Seuss’ birthday) is Sept. 15. Applications must be submitted on this form on the Kentucky Education Association website. Funding decisions will be made by Oct. 15, with notice to applicants thereafter. The maximum grant amount is $500, and [...]
PBS LearningMedia has been undergoing a makeover to create a new, more engaging, and easier-to-use design with enhanced functionality. This free service consists of 87,000 Pre-K-12 instructional resources and has more than 1.8 million users. For instructions about using the new site, see an overview of the enhancements. First-time users should go to www.ket.org/encyclomedia and click on the registration link at the bottom of the [...]
Kentucky public high school graduates turned in another strong performance on the ACT college-entrance exam, making significant gains over the past five years. While Kentucky public school graduates still trail those nationwide, the performance gap is narrowing. From 2010 to 2014, Kentucky public school students registered from a half-point to more than a full-point gain in every subject and nearly [...]
Donald Shively As befits a former chemistry teacher and assistant football coach, Paducah Independent Superintendent Donald Shively is adept at using numbers to gauge the progress of the district. In looking at the big picture, Shively likes the progress that’s been made toward students being college- and career-ready when they graduate. “We’ve gone from having 34 percent of [...]
A group of girls met on the University of Kentucky’s campus for a day this summer to learn about women in the STEM fields.