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 Youth Employment Solutions program allows schools and businesses to work together to give students real-world work experience.
Kentucky must do more to ensure all students receive the same educational opportunities and access to rigorous coursework, Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt said during his State of Education news conference Feb. 22.
The Kentucky Department of Education is offering a series of 12 in-person training sessions on the Kentucky Individual Learning Plan (ILP), a student career tool intended to help students search for career options, locate scholarship opportunities, explore the employability outlooks, compare colleges and more. The hands-on, interactive sessions are designed to inform teachers, counselors, advisers, administrative staff and designated school [...]
Breckinridge County ATC students are among those whose works will be displayed at KDE’s new home.
Jamie Sparks, the school health and physical education network director at the Kentucky Department of Education, recently received the SHAPE America Southern District Taylor Dodson Young Professional Award.
The Kentucky Department of Education is offering the KY Math Academy, an online professional learning program designed to increase mathematical knowledge for teaching in order to positively impact student learning. One-hour sessions will be offered Feb. 2, Feb. 16 and March 2. The program will focus on the eight effective teaching practices from the National Council of Teachers’ of Mathematics’ [...]
The Kentucky Environmental Education Council (KEEC) has been awarded a $91,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to train teachers about water-quality education and fund student water stewardship projects in the state through the Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools (KGHS) program. The grant will support teacher training in scientific concepts about water. It also will allow the KGHS program [...]
In November, the Kentucky Department of Education will hold seven regional dual credit training sessions designed for guidance counselors, high school principals, instructional supervisors, superintendents and other district decision makers involved with dual credit. Participants can learn more about implementation of dual credit programming in their schools and districts alongside partners from their region. The free sessions will cover several [...]
Jamie Sparks, Stephanie Bunge and Audra Deli-Hoofnagle are members of the Kentucky Department of Education's Coordinated School Health team.