Kentucky Teacher

The Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE) is hosting a sustainability symposium June 22 in Berea complete with speakers, local foods and tours of Berea’s EcoVillage, farms and campus.

For more information, contact Roberta Burnes.

The Shakespeare Set Free Institute is a two-day intensive workshop on learning to teach with performance-based methods. This workshop will be held in Kentucky June 18-19.

Although the content is taken from Shakespeare’s most-taught plays, the instructional techniques can be adapted to a wide range of subjects. The Folger training philosophy is that teachers should experience the processes that they will model for their students.

The institute includes teachers working in small acting companies to self-direct and perform scenes. Much of the pedagogy of the Institute focuses on how to get students on their feet and engaged with the text. A theater artist adds to the teachers’ knowledge of and comfort with performance in the classroom. The Institute also integrates music of the Elizabethan period, visual art and dance into the dramatic component

To register, click here. For more information, e-mail jandyperry@earthlink.net or kbreen@insightbb.com.

The Kentucky Behavior Institute is set for June 27-28 in the Lexington Convention Center and Rupp Arena.

The goal is to reduce barriers to learning and provide support for teachers, administrators and others who must respond effectively to challenging student behavior in order to provide high-quality teaching and learning in schools.

The institute includes more than 75 sessions featuring national experts, master teachers and successful administrators in Kentucky schools. National speakers will address a variety of topics.

Sessions are designed to increase knowledge and skills necessary to improve school climate, implement school-wide instructional discipline practices and reduce behavioral barriers to learning. Specific sessions will focus on ways to prevent school violence, teach responsible behavior, motivate troubled youth, increase student attendance, eliminate bullying, reduce dropout rates, implement proactive classroom management strategies, provide effective social competence instruction, redirect students who misbehave into preparation for college and careers, develop school-based programs for youth with emotional-behavioral risks, challenges or disabilities, and enable leadership to develop effective problem-solving processes to help students/teachers in trauma. Continue Reading

The Buck Institute Project Based Learning 3 Day Teacher Workshop will be July 11-13 in Corbin.

This three-day workshop engages participants in learning the principles for designing, assessing and managing standards-focused projects as well as using performance assessments to judge the relevant work generated by 21st-century learners. Through a combination of direct instruction, video analysis and hands-on group work, participants will have the opportunity to plan, design and receive peer feedback on an engaging and rigorous project using the Buck Institute for Education model and tools.

There will be a grades K-5 workshop and a grades 6-12 workshop.

Participates will select one workshop and attend that workshop for the three-day training.

Click here to register.

Teachers and administrators can join international experts and practitioners as they showcase successful practices for implementing standards and effective assessment practices at the Meeting the Challenge: Implementing Standards and Assessment Practices conference.

This event will be July 16-18 in Lexington, and early-bird registration has been extended to May 25.

Pre-conference sessions provide an in-depth focus on implementing Highly Effective Teaching and Learning (HETL), focusing on the standards, assessment, literacy and leadership for effective change. Conference sessions provide a variety of curricular, instructional and leadership strategies for educators at all levels to assist in providing high-quality instruction to students, improving their learning and ensuring they are college- and career-ready.

A maximum of 450 participants can participate.

Go to http://www.uky.edu/p12mathscience for more information.

A Hooked on Science workshop is set for June 11 in Paducah. Teachers will learn how to use classroom and home items to get students excited about science.

Teachers will learn how to provide opportunities for students to develop science skills while building fundamental literacy skills, teaching weather, putting together a family science night or setting up an after-school science club.

Each educator will receive a free bag of science materials and will have a chance to win many science door prizes.

For more information, contact Jason Lindsey at (573) 270-7539.

Registration is open for the Innovations for Learning Conference May 31 at Bryan Station High School (Fayette County). Space is limited.

The event is for administrators or anyone else interested in using technology to improve student learning.

Go to https://edtech.fcps.net/ifl/. Look at the “Sessions” list and see what is being offered. Those interested also can see if sessions still have seats available. Follow the steps on the “Attendee Info” page to guarantee a seat.

The annual Kentucky Council for Social Studies Conference will be Oct. 10-11 at University Plaza Holiday Inn in Bowling Green.

For more information, go to http://www.kcss.org/or contact Rick Daniel at (502) 485-3054.

The Kentucky School Boards Association’s (KSBA) will host its annual Federal & State Law Update: Impact on Your School District Conference May 10-11 at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington.

The conference will provide school boards and districts information they need to appropriately implement legal and policy changes within their districts for next school year. In order to address liability concerns from situations around the country, other topics to be presented include: volunteer issues; financial pitfalls; child abuse reporting, and a restraint/seclusion update.

KSBA’s Policy Service also will present a look at the policy and procedure changes recommended for districts based on legal developments that have occurred during the past year.

Conference participants will hear from experienced school law attorneys, school district policy consultants, KSBA’s legislative team, current and former superintendents and principals, and the Cabinet for Families and Children. It is important that school district administrators keep abreast of changes in the law in order to protect themselves and school districts from liability.

Registration is available on the KSBA website. Or, contact Jolene Shearer by phone at 502-783-0060 or by e-mail at jolene.shearer@ksba.org

Registration is now open for the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Create2012: Creativity in Education Institute, July 15-18, in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Create2012 will focus on aligning classroom instruction with 21st-century learning skills, which encompass creativity, imagination, problem-solving and critical thinking to support literacy in all subjects.

Sessions will be offered for K-12 classroom teachers, arts specialists, teaching artists, special education and resource teachers, principals and superintendents.

By learning how to integrate the arts into all content areas, teachers will be trained to design, deliver and assess core content in a way that engages students as active participants in their own learning.

Principals and school administrators will understand the importance of creativity to learning and utilize the arts as a way of establishing and/or enhancing professional learning communities among faculty.

There will be more than 100 sessions offered on topics such as the Common Core and the Arts, Using Art in the Special Education Classroom, Brain-Compatible Learning Through Storytelling and much more.

To register, go to https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=1049902.

More information is available on the Create website at http://www.tn.gov/arts/create2012_guide.htmll.