We are currently gathering resources, both print and video, that will help educators, families & caregivers, and communities develop partnerships that will advance educational excellence and equity. Building on the safe schools initiative, KVEC, schools, and communities can work together to ensure safe, secure learning environments for all…Read More

Congratulations to Thad and Amanda Jones on the purchase of Breathitt County’s Tiny House. It was a pleasure to meet you both and I know you will enjoy this home for many years to come.

Examples of great teaching and learning!!!

EveryoneOn created this tool kit for K-12 districts and schools across the country to learn about low-cost internet programs that can be shared with students and families. The Pew Research Center reports that about 15% of households with school-aged children…   Read more»

I found this information in a January 2017 National Education Technology Plan Update from the U.S. Department of Education – http://tech.ed.gov  The need for Access and Effective Use is critical as we prepare for remote learning for 2020-2021 and beyond….   Read more»

If a family qualified for SNAP they may be able to get ATT internet for $10 per month.   
There are several other options such as spectrum for new customers.  
Here are the links if you need more information. 
 

https://www.speedtest.net 

A film by Rory Kennedy….
https://www.bing.com/search?q=rory+kennedy+digital+divide&cvid=055be09e49ac4b48948b89a554473da1&FORM=ANSPA1&PC=ACTS 

Millions of students in rural America are falling behind in school and beyond, simply because high-speed internet is unreliable or unavailable in their communities. This is the rural broadband gap. Click on the links below to learn more about the digital divide and…   Read more»

The Digital Divide is real for rural America students.

Click below and enter your zip code to learn more about your access to the internet – cost and availability. 
 https://broadbandnow.com/Kentucky 

A Collaborative Approach for Developing Micro-Credentials Based on Need

By Dr. Dessie Bowling, Robert Brown

Earning professional credentials is a requirement in various sectors of industry such as medicine, […]

Taking the ‘Not Again’ Out of Professional Learning

Highlights, KVEC

July 10, 2020

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A Collaborative Approach for Developing Micro-Credentials Based on Need By Dr. Dessie Bowling, Robert Brown Earning professional credentials is a requirement in various sectors of industry such as medicine, technology and business. Industry professionals attend sessions in face-to-face settings at required...

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We created a google doc that we will be sharing tomorrow with some of the videos that we have created and information that we have collected from the survey we conducted. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19HbQLElYHlEmZAF8ShuWN7GWDQ_np1gnohvxTP_aT2M/edit?usp=sharing

Update on Google student certification. Our 8th grade students have been working on several different apps over the first semester: Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Students have been creating presentations about the colleges they want to attend and sharing documents with other students

Our goal is that the teacher and student both will have the app and be able to use it for different things. The student may want to keep his or her digital notes online in a google folder or work in groups were they share information with their peers, where as; for the teacher he or she will be able to collect digital mathematics sample writing…Read More

So the Rocketbook app is how you make everything work, once a students finishes has work, you can upload it using the rocket app, which is free. Using it you can set up to 10 different destinations that the material can be uploaded. Multiple Emails, google drive folders, One drive folders, and a whole lot more…

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Here is the Rocketbook Fusion, It has a variety of pages that the student one does not. The student version only has the dot version, where as the fusion has calendar, objective, idea and project templates. Both come with pen and eraser sheet. Also, you can use water to erase the pages so you can start over again and again.

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Rocketbook student edition

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In November we finally got our Rocketbooks in. We got over 30 Rocketbooks and 3 Rocketbook Fusion books in for teachers to use. I’m going to share the student version in this post

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Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank everyone (Teachers, Students, Principals, and administrators) in the KVEC region for doing such a great job this year. I was so impressed with all the presentations going on yesterday and I hope to see even more great things next year. Thanks again, have a wonderful rest of the year.

Students in Mr. Thompsons class are using digital tools to created videos. Today, I meet with the students on what they could do to improve their products. Items like adding sound and graphics where so of the things that we discussed. I’m very proud of our students they are doing a wonderful job creating these resources.

What does the day look like for chicken farmers, well at JCS students are getting to learn just what it’s like. Students in Mrs. Back’s agriculture class are getting there hands dirty finding out what it takes to raise chickens: Here is a video our crew worked on that showcases just that. https://youtu.be/qUjdBaWpgv0

Today our group worked on seeing if we could live stream through the SlingStudio onto our Youtube page. We are very excited to say it worked very well. This will lead to more things that we can do with our new technologies.

In addition to our leadership team working on the “Celebrating Educator and Student Success at the Capitol” they were very interested in showcasing all the leadership activities that our school is involved in. We invited “The Holler Boys” to come and speak with our students about creating several videos that would showcase all they have done. We…Read More

We currently have 70 Project Prevent schools using the Ripple Effects curriculum.

Grant Recipients are starting to get some of their items they ordered. A lot of great things will be happening because the teachers care so much about their students. We are all so proud of them.

Today, I meet with our ARI Grant Recipients and discussed purchasing, responsibilities, posting, and upcoming dates that are required of them.

Following the awesome presentation on social media a couple weeks back, I’d like to encourage you to consider urging your district to become part of the Kentucky School Public Relations Association. It is a good organization to help you foster community engagement and community relations. Membership is only $35 for a single or $75 for the…Read More

We are so proud of all our teachers who submitted applications this year. This is going to be a great year at Jackson City.

Also, I spoke to my Original Trainers and asked them how many videos they had created this year since the training. They had stated that they had created over 100 videos this year. A lot of hands on training going on with this group. A lot of their work focuses around a high school entrepreneurial grant that focuses on building a video…Read More

Educational Reform has made major impacts within education within the past 20 years.
But not until recently has the impacts driven the way we evaluate student achievement and success. There have been several major players who have helped this movement, such as KDE, Gates Foundation, and ARI. Teachers no longer are waiting on state test…Read More

Our JCS Leadership team created this for the March 6 event in Frankfort.

I created this cool reminder for our ARI grant recipients using a google chrome app: animaker

Here is our latest video on “Sources of Strength” . Finding what gives you strength. Family Support. https://youtu.be/EyZooio1pCw

I can’t believe there has been 11 school shootings across the nation since January 1st. That in itself is awful. Most awful is that the school shooting at Marshall County is the first one where students were killed. Ripple Effects has excellent resources you can use with your students to have discussions around creating a caring school climate,…Read More

The JCS Leadership Team attended the Teen Prevention Conference @ Lees College Campus on HCTC sponsored by KRCC

Attended the October 31 Jackson Independent Board of Education meeting and spoke about the teachers who presented at the Fire Summit on October 25 in Pikeville. Also, spoke about our student senate members and their presentation. Finally, brought up about our students getting the opportunity to participate in the Drone Build/Fly program…Read More

JCS teachers and students are looking forward to attending the Fire Summit tomorrow. It’s going to be a great day tomorrow.

Come on out to the Fire Summit on Wednesday and hear eight presentations from schools building our next Tiny Houses!

Lights, Camera, Action” are words that are now being heard more and more around the Kentucky these days. “In fact, Jay Hall the executive director of the
Kentucky Office of film and tourism says that state has seen a whopping 600%
growth since 2015″1• With this being said, our STLP working with our middle and high school Language Arts teachers w…Read More

Has anyone prepared an updated press release about the Student Senate and current activities? If so, could you please email me a copy to jeff.phillips@harlan.kyschools.us

We are going to do great things this year!!

Looking forward to seeing all the 2016-2017 High School Entrepreneurial projects posted here to the HS Entrepreneurship Holler.

Goal: To address critical teaching shortage areas and improve teacher effectiveness in the KVEC/ARI region.
The ARI Teacher Tuition Assistance Program is a RTTT-D funded project that targets teachers who are […]

KVEC/ARI TEACHER TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

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Goal: To address critical teaching shortage areas and improve teacher effectiveness in the KVEC/ARI region. The ARI Teacher Tuition Assistance Program is a RTTT-D funded project that targets teachers who are completing, or plan to complete, course work to secure...

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I love watching the Tiny Houses ‘go up’; students are doing a great job!