Two honored as PE teachers of the year
The 2014 KAHERD teachers of the year are Daniel Hill, a teacher at Tates Creek Elementary (Fayette County) and Rhonda Smith, a teacher at Lloyd Memorial High School (Elsmere-Erlanger Independent).
Teachers’ voices make a difference
Terry Holliday A guiding principle for our work in Kentucky is that we do the hard work of reform WITH teachers and not TO teachers. What does this principle look like in practice? In 2011, Kentucky implemented the TELL Kentucky Survey to allow teacher voice on key working conditions such as facilities, resources, leadership, professional development, time, etc. [...]
State becoming a leader in CTE academic integration
Sixteen schools will participate in a program designed to help career and technical education teachers and academic teachers begin to speak the same educational language.
Online timeline traces Kentucky’s energy history
The Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence (DEDI) has released a virtual tour of Kentucky’s energy history that can be used as a classroom tool for students to explore and discover energy topics. The timeline features videos and pictures that allow viewers to explore Kentucky’s historical energy events beginning in 1750 with the first discovery and use of coal [...]
Murray State NCTE chapter holds student poetry contest
Students in grades 6-12 are invited to celebrate National Poetry Month by entering a poetry contest sponsored by the Murray State University chapter of the National Council of Teachers of English. Three winners per school and three winners per grade will be chosen, and one grand prize winner will be featured on MSU’s website. Poems must be typed and submitted [...]
EKU offers STEM-H camp for gifted and talented
Eastern Kentucky University will host its eighth annual “Soar to New Heights” STEM-H Summer Camp for Gifted and Talented students June 15-19 in Richmond. The camp, open to gifted and talented students entering grades 6-8, will emphasize the STEM-H disciplines: science, technology, engineering, mathematics and health. It will feature courses taught by EKU graduate students and STEM-H faculty. Camp experiences [...]
Students invited to paint a canvas for Derby celebration
Schools can be a part of the Governor’s Derby Celebration by contributing a painted canvas to be used as a table covering during festivities May 2 on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Frankfort. Tables will be decorated as horse, with a head and a tail affixed to each table. The painted canvases will be used as a [...]
Standards-Based Grading & PGES: The Perfect Connection
Natalie McCutchen By Natalie McCutchen natalie.mccutchen@simpson.kyschools.us Marie Montessori said the greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” For the past few years, I have been working to make my students more self-sufficient and more independent thinkers who are engaged in their [...]
Poetry takes center stage in state competition
Reciting a poem over a hundred years old, but with feelings still relevant today, Grant County High School sophomore Haley Bryan won the Kentucky Poetry Out Loud state competition. Her chosen poem in the final round was Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
Clements award recognizes history, civics teachers
Applications are now being accepted for the Earle C. Clements Innovation in Education Award for Civics and History Teachers, which recognizes promising and innovative Kentucky high school history or civics teachers. Three teachers will be chosen by an independent review panel for the awards, which are presented by the National Archives and the University of Kentucky Wendell H. Ford Public [...]