One of our 4th grade teachers uses a “graffiti wall” to assess students’ knowledge of content such as identifying figurative language, text structure, and main idea. I have also utilized this strategy with Social Studies content. Use chart paper or the whiteboard as a space for students to respond to a topic or question. I have most often…Read More

Reflections from our presentation at the FIRE Summit.
Our team presented on the activities we have done this year to improve our reading scores. Since the programs brought into the school did improve our reading scores by 15%, we feel that our efforts paid off. Therefore, we were pleased to share pictures and statistics at the fire summit.…Read More

Story #3 Reflection – Our STEM Nights were such a great success. It brought parents/guardians and students together in a way they haven’t been brought together this year. So many parents/guardians were excited to learn about all the resources we have available at South Floyd Elementary and they were interested to learn about what their children…Read More

Kahn Academy is a great resource our Middle School teachers are very fond of given our participation in a grant utilizing the PSAT to measure progress. This provides an individualized path for students to progress through skills.

One resource that teachers in my school utilize is the website Prodigy. The site has over 1200 math skills for grades 1 – 8. Students have avatars in a virtual world and compete against each other but must first correctly answer math related questions.

AES Community ACT Collaboration: Jessica Hall – ARH Hospital is a member of the data base. She has participated many times throughout the year at Allen Elementary. Events include Read Across America Day and Career Day. Jessica is also an active community member of our FRYSC Advisory Council. People like her helps to make our school a…Read More

While reflecting upon our school year here at Betsy Layne High School, I noticed that I have not followed up on our “Polar Express” night. It was quite a success. We had several families from the community show up for popcorn, a movie (Polar Express) and all the children were read a book of their choice. Several of the high school students…Read More

In my paperless classroom I utilize Google Apps for Education every day. Google Classroom is our “home” where they receive and submit their work. Google Forms is great for assessments, especially now because they have a lock down browser enabled to prevent cheating. I am also a big fan of Google Drawings which allows students to get creative with…Read More

I run a paperless classroom in all of my courses including Advanced Placement World History. I have found Fiveable and Get A Five have both been great for students to be able to learn concepts. They incorporate videos and assessments for students, which are instrumental in student success because our content ranges from the dawn of mankind to…Read More

A resource that I would like to start incorporating into my classroom is PearDeck. I had not heard of it until a training a couple weeks ago. It is a Google app that allows you to have interactive Google slide presentations and embedded assessments. Students are given a code to enroll and participate. It is to my understanding that other students…Read More

A resource that I use as well as several other teachers at my school is quizlet.com . This site allows you to create vocabulary “cards” for the topic of study. Then you provide students a link and they can use it to study as flashcards, write them, spell them, and/or do a practice test. You can also provide a given code with quizlet live and the…Read More

FES CommunityACT Collaboration: Mrs. Angie Chaney added her name to the data base to connect with Teachers who may need her expertise. She has been called upon many times throughout the year. Mrs. Chaney collaborates with FRYSC events to photograph Students and Families during Veterans Day, Grandparents Celebration, Angel Tree, Children Inc.,…Read More

FES Reflections to School Story #3 on CommunityACT Collaboration. Brenda Curry Teresa Prince.

FES Story #3 on CommunityACT Collaboration – Brenda Curry Teresa Prince

Resource

One resource that has been extremely helpful to my classes this year (and one I had not explored yet) has been Google Classroom. With the on-demand writing test moved online, Google Classroom has allowed students to get in much needed typing practice and has made one-on-one work much simpler for myself. When I create a new assignment,…Read More

Resource.
I have been a big proponent of case studies throughout my teaching career, as it develops students’ understanding of content through their own research and active problem solving skills. The following link is for a data base of case studies related to the subject of science. These are great and students actually enjoy them.…Read More

I was happy to be a part of this amazing group! Each and everyone is inspiring and so dedicated to raising children to be proud of Eastern Kentucky. Our little school has been so busy like everyone else. We put on a sold out performance of Peter Pan. Again, our community came out in support. We had parent volunteers who did lighting, sound, and…Read More

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Resource #1
My teachers have been using quizizz.com and they love this resource. It has quizzes that are already created by other educators as well as the option to create your own quiz. I also have been using this with my teachers in our weekly interactive agendas and they log in and answer their questions for me.

For the third school story, our Art teacher will be hosting an evening Art show. Students artwork throughout the year will be displayed in the hallway in a gallery style. Parents and the community will be invited to walk through and enjoy the students work.

Our 6th graders will also be working on a new Paintsville Elementary brochure that can be…Read More

Wow! What an exciting year for Magoffin County High School and the community within our county?!? Our original idea was to partner each teacher with a community member in a similar field. After beginning our community partnership journey, we discovered we really needed to narrow our focus to include ACT subject areas and partner those core…Read More

Reflection-Theory of Action:

Overall, I feel the parent/community events held at Louisa Elementary Schools has had a positive impact on the community and parent involvement within the schools. I believe community partners and parents know that working together as a team positively influences education. I will continue to work with my community…Read More

I wanted to share a site that was shared with me concerning Kentucky’s academic standards. As many of you may already be aware, there is a site available to explore the newly adopted Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) and standards resources. If you look on the “Explore your Standards” page, you will find a downloadable PDF and a critical fact…Read More

Reflection of Story #3

The Easter Canvas painting class went great! We had over 70 students, parents and grandparents to attend. Everyone enjoyed the evening and we had positive feedback from everyone. We also had several request for more painting classes. We are excited to offer more of these classes in the future!

Louisa Elementary FRC will facilitate a community event and partner with The Lawrence County Public Library to host an Easter painting class for students and parents at Louisa East Elementary School on April 18, 2019 from 4-6:00pm.

I used the CommunityACT surveys to invite community members to become involved in the CommunityAct program. I handed the surveys out at our annual BabyFest Community Event. The following community partners filled out a survey and are interested in being involved: Smile Savers Program, HANDS program, Lawrence County Extension Office, Addiction…Read More

I tried to start my own challenge since so many are silly these days. I was calling it the Formative Assessment Challenge. You do a challenge then get pics of your students engaging in it and post online. Thought it would be a great way to share strategies with each other. I had a tiny bit of success but if anyone on here would like to…Read More

Someone said that the 8th and 10th On Demand was all online? Is this accurate?

The Louisa Elementary Family Resource Center partnered our community partners for Dr. Seuss week. Community partners spent the day reading to our students at Louisa East and West Elementary Schools.

Louisa East Elementary School had Data Night/Dr.Seuss Night. Students and parents came and enjoyed a snack, craft, and a photo booth. Students…Read More

I used social media to invite community members to become involved in the CommunityACT program. Hopefully connections can be made that will benefit both schools and people in our community. We can both learn a lot from each other.

Brenda and I have made a Facebook post to invite the Community to offer their expertise to our schools by filling out the data base. Our goal is to use the data base to have a Community member share their skill/time with our school before the end of the school year.

Achieve the Core (achievethecore.org) is an outstanding resource that shares free open-source resources to support common core implementation at all levels. It helps educators improve instruction and increase student achievement. The actual site has 3 tabs that include professional learning, planning and reflection and classroom resources (which…Read More

I have always found it difficult to understand the Common Core Math Standards. Sometimes I feel like I have no clue what the standard is asking for. Therefore, it makes it difficult to plan and assess. A book I have found super helpful this year is called, “The Common Core Mathematics Companion: Standards Decoded.” In this book it explains the…Read More

Here is a good resource for integrating formative assessments into your daily instruction and feedback. This PowerPoint “56 Examples of Formative Assessment” offers up some quick and easy formative assessments some using technology resources and others as easy as using the fingers on your hand. This is a great one to add to your “Teacher Toolb…Read More

A resource I wanted to share is called, “Visible Learning For Literacy.” I have always found it challenging to assess reading. It is different than assessing math. There are certain math problems students can work tied to a particular standard that can give you insight into whether or no students have master that standard. However, there are…Read More

Story #3 Reflection

Wonderful news! Our Eagle Enrichment program’s success will hopefully be mirrored at Flat Gap Elementary, as they have just received grant funding to provide a similar program at their site. I know our students absolutely love our before and after school programming!

Story #2 Reflection:

The students decided that they want to collaborate with our media arts students to create a video of their project showcasing the many ways JC prepares students for the workforce. This video can be pushed out to potential community partners. Hopefully they can get started on that after spring break.

https://ldc.org/

This is a great website to use for combing reading and writing in the content areas! Also, each module comes with a rubric for helping you assess student work/writing! I always find it hard to find the materials I am looking for to correctly assess student writing! This is a plus with this site!

Reflection of Writing Night at Paintsville Elementary! It was a success!

We held a community writing night on March 20th. Families participated in a interactive storytelling virtual conference. We had 6 families participate in the event. The Family Resource Center provided food and materials needed for the family event.
Overall, families who…Read More

4th graders at Letcher Elementary School Utilizing their journals during their Math class!

Kindergarten student at LES and his wonderful Journal entry!

Louisa East Elementary’s story #2 will be on our Dr.Seuss Day, “Read Across America.” Louisa Elementary Family Resource center partnered with local community partners to read throughout the day to students at Louisa East and West Elementary Schools.

Fallsburg Elementary Story #2 will be on our school’s Preschool Kindergarten Art Show. We have joined forces with our Family Resource Youth Service Center, Kindergarten Classrooms, Arts and Humanities Teacher, Extension Office, Area Artists and the Arts and Humanities Teacher/Students at the High School to create and display art that not only…Read More

I’m sorry everyone. I forgot to upload the ad last time.
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This is the second story for Letcher Middle School.

https://youtu.be/z6mdlHLf6dI

I’m so thankful that we have a great relationship with our local radio station. They have allowed us to come in and share our school’s story. As we have grown and changed, they allowed us again to come in and share an updated version of our story. They also sent us the file so we could post to various social media platforms. I encourage you to…Read More

https://youtu.be/SUj_U86ryWY

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

LMS has created a Parent Support Group in an effort to encourage parental involvement. Our first meeting was not the response that we envisioned. After reflecting on our first meeting, we concluded the time needed to be changed so more parents could participate. We felt that the plan we had for it was strong so we did not revisit our initial idea.