The 21st annual Kentucky Shakespeare Competition will take place on March 4 at Bellarmine University’s Wyatt Center for the Arts. Preliminary competition will begin at 12:30 p.m., and final judging will begin 15 minutes after the preliminary competition. The competition is open to any Kentucky high school student, grades 9-12. The winner of the competition will be given an all-expenses [...]
Digital Learning Day is Wednesday, Feb. 1, and it culminates a year-round national awareness campaign to improve teaching and learning for all children. Digital learning is any instructional practice that is effectively using technology to strengthen the student learning experience. Digital learning encompasses a wide spectrum of tools and practice, including using online and formative assessment; increasing focus and quality of teaching [...]
‘The 76th Annual Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts Conference will be Feb. 17-18 in Lexington. This year’s theme is Literacy Matters: The Common Core and Beyond. Topics include persuasion vs. argument; subtext strategy; college readiness; transitional intervention; digital storytelling and more. Featured speakers include Education Commissioner Terry Holliday; 2011-12 Kentucky Poet Laureate Maureen Morehead, author of many poetry [...]
Researchers at the University of Kentucky are conducting a study on the types of education services that a child with autism receives in school. This approximately 30-minute phone survey will ask parents about services their child receives in the public school, how often they may receive it and the satisfaction with that service. Additionally, parents can voluntarily share their child's [...]
The Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service (KCCVS) is seeking nominations for the 2011 Governor’s Awards for Volunteerism and Service. There are 13 award categories, including the First Lady’s Award, which recognizes a Kentuckian who has gone out of his or her way to assist youth in their efforts to graduate from high school. This may have been done [...]
Agriculture Commissioner James R. Comer invites Kentucky students to create a poster or write an essay on agriculture’s impact in their everyday lives in the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s annual Poster and Essay Contest. This year’s theme is “It All Starts With Agriculture.” The contest is open to all Kentucky students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students may submit a [...]
On Jan. 21, Murray State will host the second “Shakespeare in the Schools Teacher Workshop.” This second session will feature presentations by Sarah Enloe, an educator from the American Shakespeare Center, and Rusty Jones, Barbara Cobb and Deborah Bell. Participants will receive teaching materials, additional strategies for addressing Senate Bill 1 concerns and a professional development certificate. To register, go [...]
A series of three student workbooks highlighting general issues of bullying and the specific issues of those who are bullied and those who bully is available at www.textercise.co.uk/books/bullying-series. Other materials are available at www.textercisebooks.co.uk.
Kentucky State Police (KSP) is looking for 5th-grade artists to compete in the National Missing Children’s Day poster contest sponsored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, D.C. KSP will select a nominee from Kentucky and forward it to DOJ, where one poster from all state nominated entries will be selected as a winner. The artist of the national [...]
Educators now have a new tool to help fight rising high school dropout rates in Kentucky and encourage students to stay in school and plan for their future careers. Forward in the Fifth and the Center for Rural Development are launching a new dropout prevention video and discussion guide, the “Stay in School Toolkit,” which shares candid stories of eight [...]