Join educators who are working to support teachers using the Literacy Design Collaborative framework at a two-day LDC Coaches Institute in Lexington. The session is intended for teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and administrators who are working with other teachers on implementing LDC tasks and modules in science, social studies and English/language arts classrooms. The institute will concentrate on effective communication and [...]
A weeklong academy teaches educators how Project Archaeology’s Investigating Shelter curriculum can engage students by giving them the tools to become “nosy people.”
Six teachers developed 12 lessons using the Kentucky Military History Museum this summer. The lessons, which strive to get students thinking about the military’s role in the state’s history, will be available statewide this fall.
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.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) extends an invitation to social studies experts across the state to provide support in drafting the new Kentucky Core Academic Standards for Social Studies. Plans for standards development call for a draft to be presented to the Kentucky Board of Education in the fall of 2014. At this time, KDE anticipates the need for [...]
Schools can help with memorial funding and learn along the way.
Passions for technology and his students have guided career of Milken recipient.
Students are responding to walking while listening to lessons, teachers say.
Fort Boonesborough will have a special school day this season on Sept. 20, preceding the weekend reenactment of the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough. Students will tour the fort, and visit camps of re-enactors who portray settlers, hunters, scouts, Native Americans, and others. The current plan based on availability of participants, is to have a reenactment of the Siege at 11:30 a. [...]
Teachers at two central Kentucky schools will use visual thinking strategies to help students learn social studies over the next couple of years.