I am a kindergarten teacher at North Magoffin Elementary. This is my third year teaching and this year I was given the opportunity to do an innovative grant project. The title of my project is, Hands-On Literacy and Math Fun! With limited hands-on resources available to the students in my classroom, it’s difficult to attend to all of my s…Read More

I am a Head Start Teacher at Duff-Allen Central Elementary. I have worked in Head Start for over 10 years. I have noticed in the past few years that my students had little interest in Science. They rarely like to go to the Science Center during Free Choice and this is something that I have wanted to change. Science and critical thinking skills…Read More

I am a kindergarten teacher at Salyersville Grade School in Magoffin County. This is my second year teaching kindergarten. Kindergarten students progress at such varying levels. I am constantly assessing them to fully understand their abilities in order to ensure that my instruction is effective and reaching them at their individual levels. I…Read More

Another grant that I was so fortunate to receive was the new BREAKOUT EDU kits. This year I became departmentalized, teaching 3rd and 4th grade math, and very quickly realized that my students were performing below grade level at the beginning of the year. I began researching ways to combat this and words such as activating strategy, limited…Read More

This year my grant focuses on how better to prepare my students for the 21st century and problem solving. I have received a grant for Dash and Dot robots and lesson plans for my math class. I hope to implement coding into my 3rd and 4th grade math class this school year and allow my students to be more creative thinkers and prepare a foundation…Read More