The Kentucky School Counselor Association (KSCA) is accepting nominations for outstanding Elementary, Middle and High School Counselor of the Year. KSCA also is taking nominations for Principal of the Year. To complete an online nomination form, go to www.kyschoolcounselor.org.
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Applications are due by March 1 for the annual selections, which are [...]
The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students the opportunity to work on real-world engineering challenges in a team environment. Student teams are asked to address a challenge that confronts the nation's leading industries, use professional engineering software to develop their solutions and generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) invites teachers, administrators, district staff, parents and other education stakeholders to submit questions for Commissioner Terry Holliday's second Twitter Town Hall Thursday, Jan. 19 from 4-5 p.m. ET. The Twitter Town Hall topics will be the 2012 General Assembly and KDE’s legislative agenda. Questions can be tweeted both before Jan. 19 and during the [...]
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holiday will conduct the next superintendents’ webcast on Dec. 16 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. ET. The webcast will include updates on the budget and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver request. Those who have topics that should be included in this broadcast should e-mail them to Mary Ann Miller. The links for the broadcast [...]
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, in partnership with NanoRacks, invites communities across the U.S. to participate in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Fourth Flight Opportunity – SSEP Mission 2 to the International Space Station (ISS). Each participating community will be provided all launch services to fly a real microgravity research mini-laboratory on ISS from September [...]
Cindy Bramble, a 5th-grade teacher at Second Street School (Frankfort Independent), has been awarded the Bruce Stone Educational Merit Award by the U.S. Tennis Association Southern Region. This award recognizes an individual who has developed an outstanding tennis program that provides leadership and inspiration in junior programs for schools, colleges, parks and playgrounds, and benefits the growth of tennis. Bramble [...]
The Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE) is looking for a regional coordinator for the Kentucky NEED project. This is a full-time contractor position to coordinate regional energy education program and to provide teacher/school district support in central Kentucky. The position closes Nov. 30. Send cover letter and resume tomailto:jobs@need.org. For more information, contact Ashley Hoffman.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is seeking qualified individuals to review mathematics and science partnerships applications. Partnerships involving science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics faculty from institutions of higher education and high needs schools/districts are eligible to apply for these funds. KDE anticipates funding approximately five applications. For this review, KDE is seeking people with an in-depth understanding of research-based [...]
A listserv dedicated to discussions about autism has been started for the benefit of parents, educators and therapists who are concerned with autism spectrum disorders. Those interested can find the subscription page at www.coe.uky.edu/lists/kylists.php.