Principal sees value, rigor in world languages
Western Hills High School Principal Greg Roush honored as 2016 Kentucky World Language Association Administrator of the Year.
What taking action in the classroom really means
When exploring global education, many educators are very comfortable with the first three “big areas” of global competency. But what does "Taking Action" mean for students?
High-quality Spanish teachers in Kentucky schools
The Visiting Teachers from Spain program enables local school districts in Kentucky to hire highly qualified, licensed, native Spanish-speaking educators to teach at elementary, middle and high schools.
Study Buddy sessions make classrooms without borders possible
Through a collaborative effort between schools in western Kentucky and Grace English School in Guatemala, several hundred Kentucky students are learning about Spanish language and culture, while more than 100 Guatemalan students are learning both written and spoken English.
Free mini-course about global education
Primary Source – a developer of global online professional learning and resources – in collaboration with the National Educational Associate, have a comprehensive four-hour long mini professional learning course about global education.
Bath County begins offering world language in elementary schools
This year at Owingsville Elementary School, kindergarten through 5th-grade students will get the chance to learn the basics of the Spanish language from a native of the country.
New leadership named in language-specific professional organizations
During the Kentucky World Language Association’s annual conference in Louisville, new leadership was elected in five of the six different language-specific state professional organizations.
Two KET programs win national awards
Kentucky Educational Television (KET) received two awards from the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) at NETA’s recent annual professional development conference in Baltimore. “News Quiz,” KET’s long-running current events program aimed at students in grades 4-8, won a 2016 NETA award in the instructional media – broadcast program category. “Exploraciones,” KET’s new multimedia collection of online tools for teaching Spanish [...]
Calloway County grows its own crop of language teachers
For the 2016-17 school year, Calloway County High School students enrolled in a new elective, Español Para Adolescentes, in order to help with the need for world languages in the district's elementary schools.
Starting them off global
In our current knowledge economy, knowing information is useless unless you can do something with that knowledge.