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Sheri A. Rhodes

Guest Columns

Meeting the needs of gifted students in mixed-ability classrooms

Sheri A. Rhodes - May 15, 2018

The 2018 Regular Session ended with a new budget for the 2018-20 biennium, along with changes to the current tax provisions that provide some relief in the latest round of budget cuts. Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 13, 2018

Features

Budget, pension system and tax provisions dominate 2018 Regular Session

Tracy G. Herman - May 8, 2018

Interim Commissioner Wayne Lewis

Commissioner's Comments

Giving thanks to all of Kentucky’s teachers

Wayne Lewis - May 8, 2018

Interim Commissioner Wayne Lewis

Commissioner's Comments

Doing our best for every child

Wayne Lewis - May 3, 2018

Meredith White

Global Competency/World Languages

Core practice hacks: Planning, assessment and feedback

Meredith White - May 3, 2018

Spanish teacher Rachel Medina teaching students Abby Sadler, right, and Jayda Robertson. Medina’s Spanish class learned real-world language skills this year by putting a new spin on traditional fairy tales or writing new ones. Sadler volunteered the idea of sending the books to Norton’s Children’s Clinic in Louisville to fill a need. While there often are books in doctor’s offices, seldom are they in Spanish. Submitted photo by Kate Boyle

Global Competency/World Languages

Teaching writing by finding meaning

Rachel Medina - May 3, 2018

Global Competency/World Languages

KWLA seeking nominations for 2018 World Language Teaching Awards

Ben Hawkins - May 3, 2018

Stacy Crawford Bewley

Literacy

Teaching grammar with authentic texts

Stacy Crawford Bewley - April 19, 2018

Seneca High School agriculture teacher Bethany Mattingly instructs a student on how to transplant tomatoes in the school's greenhouse. Beginning in the 1980s, greenhouses became a common teaching tool in agricultural education programs across the state. Today, more than 100 of the state’s 144 high school agricultural education programs have a greenhouse of some kind. Submitted photo by National FFA Alumni

Career & Technical Education

Greenhouses make plant science come to life

Matt Chaliff - April 12, 2018

Library media specialist Alaine Carpenter gets students at Morton Middle School (Fayette County) excited about reading through an edible book contest, in which students have to create a scene from a book and at least 50 percent of the display must be edible. Eighth-grader Shelby Lynch received a first-place award this year for her entry, a cake decorated to depict a scene from Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Photo by Linda Dawahare/FCPS

Library Media

Creating a hunger for reading with an edible book contest

Tammy Lane - April 12, 2018

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