INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #10 (23 mins)
Develop a literacy identity that promotes lifelong learning.
• Provide opportunities for students to view themselves as lifelong learners who take an active role in their literacy development, understanding they impact and are impacted by their interactions with text
• Carole Mullins, NBCT and Reb…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #9 (31 mins)
Apply high level cognitive processes to think deeply and critically about text.
• Help students must move beyond basic comprehension and interact more deeply with the text
• By applying synthesis, analysis, reflection and other higher order thinking skills, students are equipped to examine text cri…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #6-7 (37 mins)
#6: Collaborate with others to create meaning. #7: Utilize digital resources to learn and share with others.
• Help students learn to interact with others in order to confirm, challenge or shape their views and ideas
• Know how to effectively produce and critically consume digital information
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INTRODUCTION TO THE 10 INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICES (18 mins)
• Understanding the purpose and function of the practices
• Carole Mullins, NBCT

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #1 (32 mins)
Recognize that text is anything that communicates a message.
• Expand traditional knowledge about text to include visual, auditory & digital sources
• Use sources across disciplines to provide increasingly rigorous opportunities for students to interpret messages communicated through different med…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #2 (29 mins)
Employ, develop, and refine schema to understand create text.
• Through the use of multiple texts and interdisciplinary content, activate students’ schema. Provide opportunities for developing new connections, applying specialized vocabulary and reflecting on new understandings
• Appropriate for K…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #3 (30 mins)
View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• When students’ literacy experiences cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, their knowledge is expanded and relevant
• Students’ interactions with text become transformational when they are motivated to purs…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #4 (30 mins)
Utilize receptive and expressive language arts to better understand self, others and the world. View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• Experiencing both receptive (i.e., listening, reading and viewing) and expressive (i.e., speaking, writing and v…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #5 (38 mins)
Apply strategic practices, with scaffolding and then independently, to approach new literacy tasks.
• Help students to strategically approach literacy tasks in order to make intentional decisions about when, where and how to apply thinking and learning processes
• Independence and tra…Read More

Composition Video Resources Link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vIg6dkOjgATOSbQCosjIiKQFMGGIqzs1?usp=sharing

KAS for Reading and Writing Video Series: EPISODES 1-5 RESOURCES LINK:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XaizNuJf-tWqMK0CLJU86EZ08xzOabfI

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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February 27, 2017

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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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In January of 2015 the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) entered into a partnership with Knovation, a provider of professionally vetted and aligned digital content and open education resources (OER). […]

East KY School Districts Rank Top 100 in Digital Learning

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January 24, 2017

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In January of 2015 the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) entered into a partnership with Knovation, a provider of professionally vetted and aligned digital content and open education resources (OER). The intent of this partnership was to assist our...

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The Center for Innovation in Education has just published a new concept paper: Leadership for Learning. We hope that the paper will serve as a tool for education communities as they organize to create a better future for learners and will serve as a stimulus for serious conversations about how to improve policy to support local initiatives.…Read More

Welcome new learners! We encourage you to share innovative solutions to problems of practice and everyday challenges that stand in the way of deeper learning!

I have uploaded a summary document that outlines KVEC and REL’s collaboration on the Action Research Process.

Beginning in 2013, the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) and partners across southeastern Kentucky established the Appalachian Renaissance Initiative (ARI) through a federal Race to the Top–District grant. ARI goals include i…Read More

The second meeting of this cadre for the school year 2016-17 will be hosted at KVEC in Hazard, KY (KVEC building – 412 Roy Campbell, Hazard, KY 41701), on Tuesday, December 6th, from 9:00am to 3:00pm.

If you wish to participate, please, register using this link: h…Read More

I just uploaded new documents for coaching beyond ratings on FfT.

I have just posted the PDAS Practitioner’s Field Guide to School Improvement. The PDAS is a well-defined set of principles, procedures and tools aimed to motivate schools and districts as they continually collect, analyze, communicate and use multiple measures of data to improve every aspect of school/district decision making. Implementing the…Read More

I just upload a great data tool that was developed by Pam Coe and shared with our KVEC special education department. Check it out.

Spotlight on personalized learning—so many great ways to reach each student!
https://fs24.formsite.com/edweek/images/Spotlight-Personalized-Learning-Sponsored.pdf

Welcome students! So glad to see you in the ARI-UK Next Generation Leadership Academy Holler! We welcome your reflections on your educational experiences, your responses to articles/resources posted, and your ideas for ways to more fully engage students in deeper learning.

How do we achieve equity in the classroom?

As we strive to personalize learning for students we are working to do the same for teachers and leaders. To that end, Mike Rutherford, author of The Artisan Teacher: A Field Guide to Skillful
Teaching, will join us for the ARI Renaissance Academy on September 28 to work with leaders and September 29 to work with teachers. Dr. Rutherford will…Read More

I am excited to join the Inquiry Fellows Holler. I want to peek over your shoulders and hear all of the exciting conversations that take place. This will be a great place to learn and grow.

It is so good to see you in the PDAS holler, Ann. I also noticed that you are signed up for our Lee County PDAS orientation. It will be wonderful to see you there.

“These mini innovations can be subtle but add up to significant results….http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshlinkner/2016/01/18/how-micro-innovations-can-drive-breakaway-resuts/#33784ef775ae

Spread the word. The Action Research Summit is scheduled for April 12 at Pikeville Expo Center. This earlier date was chosen to avoid conflicts with state testing.

Free Spanish big books to give away at our GC/WL training on August 30. Don’t miss out!

Initial Certification Training (first time evaporators of certified staff) is scheduled for August 30 and 31 at Hazard Community college. Please register at KASA website.

GC/WL meeting at KVEC on October 30th. Please register for lunch purposes.

GC/WL meeting at KVEC on October 30th. Please register for lunch purposes.

The first in a series of 4 PDAS 1/2 day orientations takes place at KVEC Offices on Friday, August 26 form 9:00 to 12:00. Come learn how PDAS is a unique approach to data collection, analysis, and decision making.

In addition to all the great research projects emerging across the region, I’m interested in learning more about David Chapman, Tristin Cunniff, and Jill Maynard’s music skills!! Research clearly connects music to math and literacy skills….look forward to meeting you. (Jill you are a musician, right?:)