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SB 1 modules available
KET, in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education, has launched Transforming Education in Kentucky: A free, media rich introduction to Senate Bill 1. Seven informational interactive modules are designed for educators, students and parents who want to understand the educational effects of 2009’s Senate Bill 1 (KRS 158.6453). Each module includes readings, videos and interactive exercises. The modules are: [...]
Kentucky bus driver wins international competition
Richard Hall, an employee of Floyd County school district, has been selected as the 2010 National School Transportation Association (NSTA) first place winner in the School Bus Driver International Safety Competition held in St. Louis. In addition, the Floyd County school district was presented with an employer award for employing the first place winner in the small bus class competition. [...]
Board selects officers, approves EMO
The newly revamped Kentucky Board of Education fleshed out the state’s assistance program for persistently low-performing schools during its meeting in August.
Dig it
Students in schools across Kentucky are using buttons to learn about sorting, color, shapes and classification, all while drawing inferences about the objects’ owner. Teachers are using original source documents to produce informed citizens, voters and leaders. All are happening because of archaeology, a word not even found in the Program of Studies, according to A. Gwynn Henderson, archaeologist and education coordinator with the Kentucky Archaeological Survey (KAS), jointly administered by the Kentucky Heritage Council and the University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology.
Massey elected to national position
Longtime Boone County Board of Education member and former Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) President Charles “Ed” Massey is the new secretary-treasurer of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Massey was chosen by members of the NSBA Delegate Assembly in voting recently on the eve of the 2010 NSBA national conference in Chicago. Massey’s nomination had been endorsed by the [...]
Project Lead the Way adds biomedical science courses
Last year, 47 students at Muhlenberg County High School used hands-on activities to study diabetes to learn about homeostasis and metabolism, and they investigated sickle-cell disease while learning about genetics and DNA.