Kentucky teachers going for Grammy gold
Two state teachers among 10 finalists up for the Music Educator Award.
Arts initiative offers grants to southeastern Kentucky schools
Schools in southeastern Kentucky may request up to $2,500 in funding through the Delta Dental Making Smiles Happen Arts in Education Initiative. The program is designed to increase and reinforce opportunities for students across all grade levels. Through this initiative, students have access to the arts as a critical component of their overall education experience. Funding is available to teachers [...]
GSA applications accepted beginning Oct. 1
Students interested in attending The Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) can apply for ArtShops and GSA summer program auditions beginning Oct. 1. Rising juniors and seniors may attend GSA, a three-week summer program. GSA is tuition free, but students must apply and audition for admittance. ArtShops, which are daylong workshops at which master artists can help students [...]
Puppets to Program Review, teachers experience art at Berea Learnshops
More than 120 teachers attended this year’s Berea Festival of Learnshops where they made art, learned about program reviews and the new National Core Arts Standards.
Ky. Center arts-literacy academy deadline extended
The registration deadline for the Academy for the Integration of the Arts and Literacy, one of four arts academies and arts integration academies offered this summer by the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, has been extended. Teachers may now register through May 8 for the arts-literacy academy July 20-23 in Florence. The academy is open to teachers in grades [...]
College Board arts competition open to schools
The 2015 College Board Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts competition, which recognizes and celebrates the achievements of arts initiatives that serve students in grades 6–12 and that promote student learning and creativity in exemplary and innovative ways, is accepting entries from schools. The awards are given in three categories: Arts Integration: Awarding an initiative that uses an [...]
Arts Olympiad, World Children’s Festival coming
Kentucky elementary and middle schools are invited to participate in the 5th Arts Olympiad this year and the 5th World Children’s Festival on the National Mall next July 2-4. The Arts Olympiad, the world’s largest and most prestigious art program, introduces students ages 8 to 12 to the Artist-Athlete Ideal of the creative mind and healthy body. The lesson plan [...]
Lesson plans unite the arts, mathematics
Add a little art to your mathematics lessons with a new KET collection that features lesson plans for grades K-8 that use dance, drama, music, and visual arts to teach mathematics concepts. Check out Math + Arts on PBS LearningMedia.
New core standards emphasize ‘doing art’
New National Core Arts Standards, which are making their way through the state’s approval process, could change the way the subject is taught in Kentucky.
History comes alive in arts infused field trips
This summer 45 teachers from across the state spent a week in Frankfort learning how to infuse arts into field trips. By early next year the lesson plans they developed will be available for teachers statewide.