The Purchase Area Writing Project is accepting applications for its summer institute for teachers and for its writing workshop for high school students this summer at Murray State University. PAWP Summer Institute The Purchase Area Writing Project (PAWP) Summer Institute, which gives teachers the opportunity to develop and hone their ability to improve students’ writing skills, will be June 5-23. [...]
The Warren County Area Technology Center (ATC) has been named a winner of the Excellence in Action award from Advance CTE, a national nonprofit career and technical education organization. The school’s automotive technology program will be recognized in the transportation and logistics career cluster. The On Track car-building program, a partnership with the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce in [...]
The Kentucky Storytelling Conference is accepting workshop and pre-conference session proposals on any aspect of storytelling for the conference, scheduled for Nov. 3-4 at the Hotel Louisville. Workshop presenters will receive free conference registration and are paid an honorarium. The submission deadline is April 1. Click here for more information.
The Kentucky School for the Blind is accepting nominations for the Paul J. Langan Distinguished Service Award, which is given to a Kentucky resident or former Kentuckian who displays qualities that have had a strong, positive influence on KSB and on the lives of persons who are blind or visually impaired. The award, established in 1992, honors Langan, who was [...]
High school students who are interested in cancer research may apply for the Emperor Science Award program, an initiative designed to empower high school students to become the next generation of cancer researchers. PBS LearningMedia and Stand Up To Cancer will choose 100 students each year for at least three years to work alongside an esteemed university-level research scientist on [...]
Kelly Mayes Kelly Mayes of Bryan Station High School (Fayette County) has received the 2017 Outstanding Service Award from the Kentucky chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Mayes has worked five years at Bryan Station, where she is assistant orchestra director and co-leader of the StationARTS program. She also teaches 4th- and 5th-grade orchestra at Cardinal Valley [...]
Lisse Lawson Lisse Lawson of Rosa Parks Elementary School (Fayette County) has been named the 2017 Elementary Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Music Educators Association. Lawson is in her 13th year as general music teacher and chorus director at Rosa Parks. Overall, she has taught 24 years in Fayette, Bourbon and Jessamine counties. In addition to [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts will present five newly designed arts and arts integration academies for arts teachers this summer in Louisville. Here is the schedule of academies: Arts and School Leadership – June 12-16, Louisville (includes attendance at the Kentucky Coalition for Arts Education’s Arts Education Summit June 14-15; school administrators [...]
The American Geosciences Institute/ExxonMobil Exploration Teacher Leadership Academies is recruiting teachers for its annual institute next summer in Houston. Two week-long academies – one June 25-30 for teachers in grades K-5 and one July 16-21 for middle school teachers – help prepare a cadre of teachers to share key ideas in the geosciences with their colleagues, students and others. [...]
Nominations are open for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers’ 2017 Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award, which is given to educators who have contributed to the stimulation of interest in the earth sciences at the pre-college level. Teachers who cover a significant amount of earth science content with their students are eligible for section awards; sectional winners become national finalists. [...]