The Kentucky State Police (KSP) is accepting applications for its ninth annual Drive To Stay Alive teen driving academy Sept. 7 - 11 at KSP Headquarters in Frankfort. Drive to Stay Alive is an innovative program targeted directly at teenage drivers. Participants will spend four days learning potential life-saving skills including hands-on skills in actual motor vehicle situations combined with [...]
The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University has planned a travel/study program to Italy for 8th-grade and high school honors students as well as interested adults, set for Sept. 30 through Oct. 9. This program provides participants with a carefully structured experience in Florence, Rome and selected points of interest. Thirty qualified participants will be accompanied by the [...]
The Black Star Project is in its eighth year of promoting a fatherhood initiative known as the Million Father March. The Million Father March is about fathers taking their children to school on the first fall school day. Last year, 800,000 fathers in 600 cities took their children to school on the first day of school. Participating in the Million [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has announced that the review process for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) award has been completed. The list of awards are available at the following link: www.education.ky.gov/KDE/Administrative+Resources/Grant+Information. The awards listed are contingent upon awardees meeting all programmatic and budgetary requirements. If there are programmatic/budgetary issues that need to be addressed, those issues must [...]
The Kentucky State Fair, Aug. 18-28, has a great way for teachers and students to kick off the 2011-12 school year. The Education Program is spotlighting a new thematic exhibition – United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Kentucky and the Civil War +150. The start of the national Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War is in 2011. Kentucky’s Civil War [...]
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is contracting with three Educators in Residence to assist the council in its work with states in their transformation from a highly-qualified workforce to a highly-effective workforce. These consultant positions will start work in late summer and will be available for up to three years. The Educators in Residence will work in [...]
All across the country, Americans are doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world. Every week, the White House invites the public to tell the stories of “Champions of Change” at www.whitehouse.gov/champions. One theme of service is education and empowerment, which is for innovative teachers and school leaders creating engaging and rigorous [...]
The U.S. Department of Education has released the application for the second phase of the Promise Neighborhoods program, including new implementation grants and a second round of planning grants, totaling $30 million. The program will again have Absolute Priorities for serving rural and tribal communities. Nonprofits, institutions of higher education and Native American tribes are eligible to apply for funds [...]
The IHTD Youth Film Festival asks young people to speak out on the federal budget and asks them to consider the $1 trillion spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – “What would you do with $1 trillion – for yourself, your family and your community?” To participate in the contest, youth age 23 and younger may submit videos that are no longer [...]
The University of Kentucky is offering an online physics courses for teachers. This is for elementary and middle school teachers who want to learn more about physical science, either for course credit or professional development. Course topics include light; electricity and magnetism; temperature and heat; and force motion and energy. For more information, contact Joseph P. Straley at (859) 257-3197.