Kentucky Teacher

Kentucky Teacher is looking to profile outstanding leaders in Kentucky’s public school districts for the 2012-13 school year.

If you know of an excellent district teacher or administrator 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 nominee has served in a leadership capacity
• what makes the nominee a strong leader
• headshot of the nominee

One leader will be profiled monthly in the Leadership Letter section of the Kentucky Teacher website. For more information, contact Riddell at (502) 564-2000, ext. 4621. Read the full story

A new app for iPhones, iPads and iPods compiles content from the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to enhance communications on education-related matters across the state.

The free KDE News app is available through iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kde-news/id540050869?ls=1&mt=8 The app is designed to provide users with immediate access to many items housed on the KDE website, including:

• Kentucky Teacher Magazine
• Messages to Superintendents and Teachers
• Headlines
• Education Commissioner Terry Holliday’s Blog
• Videos Read the full story

Even though the school year is winding down, Kentucky Teacher is still looking to profile outstanding leaders in Kentucky’s public school districts.

From superintendents to classroom teachers and aides and everyone in between, these profiles are intended to offer insight into what it takes to be a strong leader and to say “well done” to those who excel at it.

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 nominee has served in a leadership capacity
• what makes the nominee a strong leader

One leader will be profiled monthly in the Leadership Letter section of the Kentucky Teacher website. For more information, contact Riddell at (502) 564-2000, ext. 4621.

Dear Reader,

Beginning today, Kentucky Teacher, the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE’s) flagship publication since 1992, is now an online publication.

The online incarnation of Kentucky Teacher promises to be more vibrant, layered and useful to you – the public school teachers of Kentucky. Providing Kentucky Teacher in this electronic format will enable more interactive, two-way communications between KDE and educators.

The website, www.kentuckyteacher.org, will continue to offer feature articles that provide descriptive narratives about successful classroom practice, information about resources, recognition of outstanding efforts and more.

News items will be posted regularly along with more frequent updates to the Bulletin Board and Leadership Letter items currently included in every printed issue. In addition to the features you’re accustomed to seeing in the print edition, the Web publication of Kentucky Teacher will offer readers interactivity with leadership, photo slideshows, digital archives, RSS feeds, the opportunity to comment on features stories and photos and more.

Kentucky Teacher’s online edition is more robust, which means you will get news that matters to your day-to-day work in the classroom in a timelier manner. Readers will be able to sign up on any page at www.kentuckyteacher.org to receive notifications in their e-mail inboxes when the website is updated with new content.

We need you, as readers and partners, to continue to support Kentucky Teacher by visiting www.kentuckyteacher.org. This partnership has been essential to the success of Kentucky Teacher and will be to its future.

Thanks to all who read Kentucky Teacher; we’re confident the new online version will continue to provide invaluable perspective to help you grow and thrive in your classroom and your school.

Please let the Kentucky Teacher staff know what you think about the new format by writing to kyteacher@education.ky.gov.

Sincerely,
Stephanie Siria
Editor
stephanie.siria@education.ky.gov