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New Visual and Performing Arts Courses on the KY Learning Hub
Five new Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) Creating Artistic Ideas: Interactive Resources are available on the KY Learning Hub! The KY Learning Hub is Kentucky’s centralized platform for high-quality professional learning opportunities that support educators across the Commonwealth. These new self-paced courses for dance, media arts, music, theatre and [...]
Effective Communicator: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: A Writing Framework
The Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Reading and Writing outlines text-based and evidence-based writing as communication tasks that students should engage in. Effective Communicator: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning introduces a collection of quick guides to support teachers to use coherent language and instructional support to integrate strong reading and writing [...]
Updated Approved Mathematics HQIR and Resources
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) released an updated approved list of K-12 high-quality instructional resources (HQIRs) for mathematics, focusing on Tier 1 core comprehensive resources. A core comprehensive instructional resource is one that serves as the primary means of instruction in a content area for a grade level or [...]
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies: Webinar Series Spotlight
What do the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies look like in practice? To learn more, access the Social Studies webinar collection! The goal of these webinars is to deepen social studies content knowledge and pedagogy and showcase what a social studies learning experience aligned to the KAS for [...]
Professional Learning Module: Using an Anchoring Phenomenon to Drive Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning
The Using an Anchoring Phenomenon to Drive Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning module contains materials to be used in professional learning sessions at the district, school or department level. This module utilizes an open educational resource to provide participants with a learning experience symmetrical to the classroom. Through that experience, participants [...]
Jonathan Elementary: Strengthening Literacy Through Shared Learning
At Jonathan Elementary School in Marshall County, teachers are strengthening literacy instruction by learning together, putting new strategies into practice and examining how students respond. Through a partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE’s) Division of Early Literacy, the school is connecting collaborative preparation with classroom coaching to make [...]