At a recent adaptive recreation training, teachers learned how physical education classes can be adapted to include students with disabilities, and at the same time break down walls between differently abled students.
An $8.1 million federal grant will help Kentucky schools create safer learning environments and promote behavioral health to improve educational outcome for all students.
The Teaching the Core video library from Student Achievement Partners contains more than 60 videos of Common Core instruction in real classroom settings, with more coming soon. Each lesson is annotated using SAP’s Instructional Practice Guide to call out exemplary moments of Common Core teaching and includes: a full, bell-to-bell video lesson a complete set of lesson materials examples of student [...]
Registration is open for the Kentucky History Education Conference, which will be held July 9 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. The theme of the conference is “Exploration, Encounter and Exchange in History,” which is based around the 2015-16 National History Day theme. The keynote presentation will be from recognized Native American scholar John Bowes [...]
Four arts academies and arts integration academies will be offered to teachers this summer at various locations by the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. Teachers attending the academies will receive hands-on, standards-aligned training. The schedule: Arts Academy, June 15-19, Corbin STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) Academy, July 6-10, Murray Arts-Literacy Academy, July 20-24, Florence Arts-World Languages Academy [...]
The Western Kentucky University Center for Economics Education is sponsoring a free professional development opportunity from 4:30-7 p.m. CT March 24 on the WKU campus in Bowling Green. “Exploring Economics” is designed for teachers and curriculum coordinators in grades K-8 and will illustrate how to integrate economic concepts into social studies, reading and mathematics lessons. Jana Kirchner, an assistant professor [...]
The end of third grade is the point at which children transition from learning to read to utilizing reading skills to understand the content of all subject areas. To strengthen third-grade reading proficiency for all students, particularly for students of color and students with disabilities, the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Taskforce has established a dedicated early literacy website to [...]
Researchers at Penn State University are interested in finding out how teachers, school psychologists and school counselors use the Internet and social media for work purposes and are asking school personnel to complete a short survey. Your name will not be associated with your responses; this is an anonymous survey. The researchers simply want your honest feedback about how you [...]
Nannette Johnston Dynamic educational partnerships and strong community, family, staff and student support have made the Hardin County school district home of endless opportunities. One example is the Hardin County Early College and Career Center. Also known as EC3, the Early College and Career Center fulfills several roles. High school students use the center to take courses in [...]
David Grossman I still remember one of my first years teaching middle school science when my students conducted a lab and their data did not support the Law of Conservation of Mass. This was a big deal because the whole reason we were doing the lab was to learn or reinforce the Law of Conservation of Mass. That [...]