Sarah Coomer, the gifted and talented coordinator for Bullitt County Schools, has been named a director of the Kentucky Association of Gifted Education Advisory Board. She joins the 20-member board that serves as an advocate and liaison for gifted and talented children within their district and across Kentucky. Coomer has worked with district staff to offer weekly elementary camps in [...]
Eastern Kentucky University is offering an international environmental service learning project in Belize in spring 2016 that will offer graduate or undergraduate credit. An informational meeting will be held 5-6 p.m. Oct. 22 in EKU’s New Science Building, Room 3119. Participants may attend in person or online. The trip for K-12 pre-service or in-service teachers and others will be May [...]
Hope Street Group's annual survey is under way, collecting teacher input regarding the Professional Growth and Effectiveness System and teacher leadership. Hope Street Group has been asked by the Kentucky Department of Education to collect teacher perspectives on how PGES evidence is affecting decision making, how the expertise of teachers is shaping professional learning and how teacher leaders are impacting [...]
Jennifer Wooley of Bullitt County Schools has been elected president of the Kentucky Association of School Human Resource Managers (KASHRM). Wooley has spent 23 years in public education as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal and director of human resources. She spent six years in Hardin County at Meadow View Elementary School before moving to Bullitt County. She is also [...]
Amanda Hurley of Henry Clay High School (Fayette County), was named the Kentucky Outstanding School Media Librarian by the Kentucky Association of School Librarians at its annual conference in September. Other KASL award winners honored included: Rachel Burgin, Henry County High School, School Library Web Site Award Emily Northcutt and Annette Jones, LeGrande Elementary School (Hart County), Donna Hornsby Joint [...]
Laura Roché, a French teacher at Beaumont Middle School (Fayette County) is the 2015 recipient of the Kentucky World Language Association Outstanding Teacher Award. She received the award Sept. 26 at the KWLA annual conference in Louisville. Roché is in her 24th year of teaching French. She has spent the past six years at Beaumont Middle after having taught at [...]
The Kentucky Network to Transform Teaching (KNTT) is offering financial assistance to teachers pursuing National Board certification who are from schools without National Board Certified Teachers. To help achieve the goal outlined in a Kentucky statute of having one National Board Certified Teacher in every Kentucky school by 2020, KNTT will reimburse qualified candidates for up to $275 in out-of-pocket [...]
Applications are being accepted for the Next-Generation Student Council, which meets with the commissioner of education and Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) staff to discuss how decisions made at the state level are affecting students. The commissioner created the council to gain valuable feedback from Kentucky students and to engage student leaders in learning by doing. Participants in the year-long [...]
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 [...]
Hope Street Group, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that connects teachers directly to policymakers, is currently accepting applications for the Kentucky Teacher Fellowship. The fellowship provides teachers with opportunities to meet leading policymakers and present them with solutions that elevate the teaching profession. Teacher fellows stay in their classrooms full time, work with Hope Street Group 10 to 15 hours [...]