Based on independent research and results from more than 750,000 students, the most challenging reading standards for students have been identified. A free Education Week webinar from 2 to 3 p.m. ET on Oct. 29 will discuss practical instructional ideas to help teachers and administrators conquer the rigor needed to master these standards. The discussion will specifically relate to determining [...]
The Kentucky Geographic Alliance will sponsor at a Teacher Leader Institute on Nov. 7-9 in Bowling Green. The institute, which will be limited to eight people, is intended to create a cadre of teachers to conduct professional learning and leadership activities for the alliance. All travel, food and lodging will be paid for, and there is a $400 stipend. For more [...]
The 2014 Opportunity Youth Summit, hosted by the Kentucky Department of Workforce Investment, will be held Nov. 17 and 18 in Louisville. First Lady Jane Beshear will give the keynote address; other speakers will include Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson and Miss Kentucky Ramsey Carpenter. The first day of the summit will include an overview of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity [...]
The Center for Science, Teaching, and Learning (CSTL) and Dow Chemical Co. present the Dow STEMtheGap Teacher Challenge, which offers the top 50 winners the opportunity to win a $1,000 educational grant for their classrooms. Teachers are invited to submit their ideas on how to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Entries will be judged by an independent [...]
How can teachers ensure that all children, including millions affected by dyslexia, the most common type of reading disability, learn to read and write proficiently? To close the literacy achievement gap, support measures must be embedded in schools and include all stakeholders – administrators, teachers, parents and children. Educator and researcher Margie Gillis, president of Literacy How Inc., will share [...]
The Martin Luther King Jr. State Commission, part of the Governor’s Office of Minority Empowerment, is seeking nominations for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship Award, along with essays and artwork for the esteemed King Award. The theme for the contest essays, poetry and artwork is “In His Footsteps … The Dream Today.” The art contest is open to kindergarten [...]
Tiffany Gruen By Tiffany Gruen Tiffany.Gruen@covington.kyschools.us On my 18th birthday, I awoke to find a paper taped to my bedroom door. Thinking it might be a sweet birthday note from my parents, I skipped from my bed toward the door and stared. The plain piece of white paper with small lettering read Voter Registration Form. At the bottom [...]
This week, Joellen Killion from Learning Forward and Karen Kidwell, director, Division of Program Standards with the Kentucky Department of Education, team up for a guest blog on the importance of professional learning and a new resource that can help ensure meaningful and effective professional learning opportunities, which are critical to the continuous improvement process and our overall success. Since [...]
The 39th annual meeting of the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History (KATH) will be held Oct. 17-18 in Louisville. KATH is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Civil Rights Act. Saturday’s keynote speaker will be Cate Fosl of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, University of Louisville (see more at our website). In addition to the [...]
Why do koalas have fingerprints that are indistinguishable from those of humans? How is the fungus gnat the weirdest animal when it comes to sperm? How is it that bacteria can stampede like buffalo or build cities like termites? What type of movement in prokaryotes is like a snot-powered rocket? These are some of the recent questions writer-educator Mark Lasbury [...]