The Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics will hold its annual conference Oct. 10 at Martha Layne Collins High School in Shelbyville. The theme is “Student Mathematicians in Action,” and sessions will be designed to support the network of teachers and teacher leaders in Kentucky. The deadline for an early registration discount is Oct. 2. Speaker proposals also will be accepted [...]
Named as one of nine career and technical education programs in the country that work, Henderson County High School’s early childhood education program gets students ready for careers.
Recent kindergarten readiness results show that only half of Kentucky’s children arrived at school ready to do kindergarten work this year. In response, the Kentucky Department of Education and the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood have released a new tool called the “Superintendent Toolbox” to help superintendents improve kindergarten readiness in their communities.
The Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with the Strategic Data Project (an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University), 55,000 Degrees, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence and Jefferson County Public Schools, has unveiled a new, interactive online tool aimed at improving college-going and persistence in Kentucky.
The Kentucky Board of Education has completed the first round of interviews for the position of commissioner of education. The board interviewed 12 candidates over the past two days.
With the start of a new school year and a renewed focus on school bus safety, today the Kentucky Department of Education announced the winners of its annual school bus safety poster contest. The theme for the 2015 contest was Bully Free Zone!
Applications are being accepted for the Kentucky Network to Transform Teaching’s Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions (CTEPS) program. CTEPS, which is for National Certified Board teachers, gives teachers the skills and knowledge necessary to emerge with confidence and take on leadership at many levels. Based on the Kentucky Teacher Leadership Skills Framework, teachers engage with self-assessment tools as well as [...]
Students are invited to participate in the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet’s 2015 Public Service Recognition Poster Contest, which is held in conjunction with Public Service Recognition Week, Oct. 4-10. Students’ entries should be based on the theme, “Great People Doing Great Jobs,” and will be judged in three categories: Ages 6-9 Ages 10-13 Ages 14-18 Winners receive $100 and an invitation [...]
The majority of teachers and leaders evaluated in the first year of statewide implementation of Kentucky’s Professional Growth and Effectiveness System (PGES) were rated exemplary or accomplished, the Kentucky Board of Education learned at its meeting Aug. 6. Under the system, about a third of certified educators in the state are evaluated each year. In 2014-15, about 16,700 teachers and [...]
At its meeting Aug. 5, the Kentucky Board of Education conducted its first review of applicants for the position of commissioner of education. The board also named Kevin C. Brown, associate commissioner and general counsel for the Kentucky Department of Education, as interim commissioner of education.