Project Summary: Light it Up

New stage lighting and controls will be purchased for the Breathitt High School stage to enhance student performances and allow students to learn about lighting and production. Students will be able to use controls and modern LED lighting to assist in school performances, design their own productions and learn stage craft.

Project Title: Go Anywhere Classroom

Problem of Practice:
With limited funding and scarce resources, students are stifled by the inability to make real-world connections with social studies content. To further compound the situation, many of the historical events took place far away from Eastern Kentucky. Students have limited knowledge about…Read More

Project Title: Who Me? I can Have a STEM Career?!?

Problem of Practice:
Are Magoffin County High School Students pursuing STEM careers (other than medical related fields) at low rates due to lack of STEM career education?
MCHS students are pursuing STEM careers at low rates. Fields of study chosen by recent graduates and career interest…Read More

Project title: Talk the Talk

Extensive research in educational journals supports the importance of including time for students to have rich math talks. This discourse increases students’ mastery of content by holding them accountable for explaining their reasoning and their problem-solving strategies. The National Council of Mathematics (…Read More

There’s No Place Like My Learning Space

Not much has changed for the classroom learning space since the early 1900’s. Students are still passively sitting in individual desks in rows and the teacher is still in the front of the room. In order to prepare students for their future careers, classrooms need to shift to accommodate 21st century…Read More