Today, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) launched a redesigned website that is designed to connect parents, educators, lawmakers and the public with the agency’s vast compilation of data and information. The new website address is the same – http://www.education.ky.gov– but the setup and navigation are redesigned dramatically. “The goal of this change is to reach our various audiences more [...]
Eighth-grade language arts teachers at Henry F. Moss Middle School (Warren County) delved deeper into the lives of their students during recent class presentations. Students were asked to bring in five items of personal importance that represented significant relationships, events or topics in their lives.
The U.S. Department of Education (USED) has released a free, two-part training toolkit designed to reduce incidents of bullying. The toolkit was developed by the Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center, supported by USED’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students, in collaboration with the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers. Module 1 consists of step-by-step [...]
Four Kentucky public high school students have been named to the Next-Generation Student Advisory Council, a group that provides input to Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday. The newly-selected members will serve for one year. Vincent Cao – 11th grade, Paul Laurence Dunbar High, Fayette Co. David Hormell – 11th grade, Martha Layne Collins High, Shelby Co. Sarah Howard – [...]
Kristal Doolin, a language arts teacher at Corbin Middle School in the Corbin Independent school district, is the 2013 Kentucky Teacher of the Year.
The Parent Institute has issued a report for schools and districts that focuses on the importance of school websites in keeping parents and community leaders informed.
Glasgow Independent enriching learning through innovative curriculum.
Kentucky Board of Education members approve a restraint and seclusion policy.
Nine outstanding teachers from around the state – three elementary school teachers, three middle school teachers and three high school teachers – are semifinalists for the Kentucky Teacher of the Year award, the Kentucky Department of Education and Ashland Inc. announced today. Winners of the Elementary, Middle and High School Teacher of the Year awards, as well as the overall [...]
At its meeting in Frankfort Monday, the Kentucky Board of Education presented the annual Dr. Samuel Robinson Award to Gregory Ross, Ed.D., principal of McNabb Elementary in the Paducah Independent school district, and Kern Alexander, Ed.D., excellence professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and former president of Murray State University and Western Kentucky University.