When failure leads to success
‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ goes beyond experimentation in Kentucky schools.
Teachers from Madison, Anderson counties elected to KEA positions
KEA president-elect Stephanie Winkler The Kentucky Education Association recently elected a new president and vice president. Stephanie Winkler, 4th- and 5th-grade science teacher at Mayfield Elementary School (Madison County), was chosen as KEA’s president-elect, and Lisa Petrey-Kirk was elected vice president-elect. Winkler and Petry-Kirk will assume their new positions on June 15, each serving three-year terms. Winkler said [...]
Teachers learn to teach art by becoming students
In 1963, Jeffrey Jamner’s kindergarten teacher in New York begged his parents to get him piano lessons. The now-classically trained concert pianist said he was a “non-responsive” child who only became interested in school when his teacher played music.