https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/distance-learning/

https://sites.google.com/education.ky.gov/digitalntiawesome/4-digital-strategies

https://sites.google.com/education.ky.gov/digitalntiawesome/4-digital-strategies

https://sites.google.com/education.ky.gov/digitalntiawesome/4-digital-strategies

https://www.slj.com/?subpage=covid-19

This list of educational resources is crowd sourced-share yours too!
https://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/
 

https://www.eschoolnews.com/resource-library/mobile-device-management-101-for-education/

Setting Up for Success at Home 
http://www.ci3t.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Setting-Up-for-Success-at-Home-2020-03-21-F2.pdf

Top 5 Resources for Learning Online
https://achievethecore.org/aligned/top-5-resources-learning-online/
 

These sessions are aimed at helping Library Media Specialists during Covid-19
https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/free-webinars-for-library-staff.html

5 Trauma Informed Teaching Practices
https://inservice.ascd.org/5-essential-trauma-informed-priorities-for-remote-learning/

Article written by Michael Fullan and distributed by Microsoft

An annotated selection of online resources supporting instruction during COVID-19
 

How are you shifting instruction from the “triage” NTI model we used March-May last year to a high quality instructional model?

KVEC has developed a Blended Learning Framework to help teachers plan instruction that can be delivered either face to face or virtually.  This framework can be copied and modified to fit any school/district resources. 
 
Blended Learning Framework

How Library Media Specialists are Assisting during COVID-19

How are Digital Learning Coaches Supporting Teaching and Learning?
What are districts/schools doing to support teaching and learning if they do NOT have Digital Learning Coaches?
How can a district/school secure Digital Learning Coaches?

What is the job description of a Digital Learning Coach (DLC) in your district/school?       2. What supports are Digital Learning Coaches (DLCs) providing for teachers? Students? Administrators?   What resources are DLCs sharing with teachers?

What does/will teaching and learning look like in your school/district for 2020-2021? 
How have you “rebranded? NTI for 2020-2021? 
What is the expectation for what teaching and learning will look like?

Thanks to our grant we were able to crate four SumoBots to battle each other at our 2nd annual STEAM night. The winner went on to compete at state and made it to the sweet sixteen. The students were engaged in the engineering design process and learned advanced coding techniques all while creatively problem solving to be the best robot. Here is a…Read More

With the addition of two more EV3 lego robots we are able to expose more students to building and coding the robots. The students are currently building and began to start coding robots for the STLP Sumobot competition. We will hold our own school tournament to see which robot will represent us at the state competition. This will be part of our…Read More

Planning for Effective Questions http://www.ssgt.nsw.edu.au/documents/1planning_effective_qu.pdf

ACT Teams, join us for a Network work day on Monday. Share your theory of of action, get feedback, facilitative coaching from KVEC, etc. See you at 10:00….if you haven’t registered and want to attend, send me an email so I can be sure we have enough resources!

Knoster’s Change Model https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/strategies/tool-knoster-model-for-managing-complex-change

Direct Link to DAC emails
https://education.ky.gov/AA/distsupp/Pages/Communications.aspx

KY Framework for School Counselors
https://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/otherpages/Documents/OPGES%20Framework%20school%20guidance%20counselors.pdf

Link to recording of August Network Meeting on KY Framework for Teaching https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B6a0AzWNhi208uAyfqH6ESJSVSf7ko9x/view?usp=sharing

http://www.fusionyearbooks.com/blog/advice-for-new-teachers/

Planning Tips for New Teachers http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/jun13/vol70/num09/Before-the-Deluge@-Planning-Tips-for-New-Teachers.aspx

Stanford resources for teacher mentoring
https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/mentoring-resources

Lesson Planning Tips for New Teachers

Lesson Planning Tips for New Teachers

My STEAM cart has been a great fire starter in spreading computational thinking. More teachers are willing to open their classrooms to let their students experience coding and the engineering design process through challenges they can complete with the robots and/or the material in my cart. The best part was having a STEAM night at our elementary…Read More

KVEC Announces 2018-2019 ACT Network Schools

Allen Elementary School

Betsy Layne High School

Breathitt County High School

Clinton County Middle

Fallsburg Elementary School

Flat Gap Elementary School

Highland-Turner Elementary

Jackson Independent

Johnson Central High School

Lawrence County High School

Letcher Elementary

Letcher…Read More

Remember, KVEC needs each team’s revised Theory of Action (including budget items) by April 30th!

A culminating event for my grant was to have a school wide STEAM night. Here the students were able to show off their learning and teach others how to program robots and use 3-D design software and squishy circuits. It was a great night with a bigger turnout then I expected. This grant has helped lead the way in putting STEAM lessons into all…Read More

Monday March 12 ACT Principals are invited to a SKYPE session for technical assistance with ACT (discuss Theory of Action, budget, networking, etc.). Email me if you did not receive SKYPE link.

The winner of the January Challenge is Courtney Kingsmore…if you haven’t checked out her posts…see them below…amazing space and well liked by the ACT Holler members!!

A great resource I have found to apply mathematical thinking is The Stock Market Game. http://www.stockmarketgame.org They have lessons to help you and your students understand stocks and all the math that goes along with it. They even break it down to grade levels 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12. If you are looking for an authentic way to analyze data or practice…Read More

I have received the Dash and Dot robots I ordered with my grant. I was able to get 2 of each as well as curriculum for K-5 and challenge cards. I have been able to expose the 5th grade GT students to them before Christmas Break and they loved them. The discussion and problem solving strategies used to do some basic programming challenges was…Read More

Instructional Strategy Share-A-Thon!! Post the best Instructional Strategies you have seen or used yourself….The strategy with the most “favorites” and “comments” will win an Instructional Strategy Resource! Contest runs through January 2nd. Winner announced on January 3rd.

Welcome to all the new members!! Check out the media/documents tab if you are looking for our timeline or any other resources. Don’t see something you need? Let me know!

Common Core Placemats posted in Media.

Full STEAM Ahead! A STEAM cart will soon be rolling the halls of Pikeville Elementary School bring STEAM lessons to every stop. I have included Dash and Dot robots, jr circuits, STEAM curriculum guides for K-5 and all the necessary supplies to incorporate the lessons. My goal is to get more STEAM lessons jumpstarted in every grade level and…Read More

Check out some pictures of ACT classrooms in the media tab!