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Jennifer Carroll posted
The Social Studies Teacher Leader Network meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 24th has been cancelled. The next meeting will be March 27th (note the change from March 31 originally scheduled).
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Jennifer Carroll posted
KDE CEP Regional Work Sessions for 50-50 Committees
These regional meetings, held typically at county extension offices, will allow for up to 6 members of your district’s 50-50 committee to spend the morning learning about updates for the 2015-16 school year. In the afternoon, the district teams will work together to begin the process of deciding…Read More -
Charles Jeffrey Coots posted
To provide the students with a better understanding of the Australia culture, students in Mr. Couch’s 6th grade class are doing a skype session with Dr. Darren Hudson, a former student from Breathitt County. Dr. Hudson currently is working at the University of Sidney in the field of Physics. Students really enjoyed using technology connecting to…Read More
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Charles Jeffrey Coots posted
How has the conversations changed this year? Let me tell you, during our Elementary Meeting today, I was so impressed by the conversations that our teachers were having about the Mathematics Standards and where the material should be covered. By having our teachers focus designing end of the year assessments based on the standards, we are one…Read More
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I wonder if other schools are hearing these types of conversations going.
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Charles Jeffrey Coots posted
Yesterday, I met with our ARI leadership/Teachers/Innovation Grant recipients to discuss, where we are and what we need to do to get ready for the Action Research Summit. I truly loved the videos that our staff shared about their projects. Some of them are posted on the Promising Practice Holler. I hope you enjoy them as must as I did.
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This is really big, Jeff. If standards are demanding and tests accurately measure achievement of those standards, then curriculum and instruction will become richer and more rigorous. If teachers teach and assess the standards the results should be higher scores on the state assessments without the perceived need for three weeks focus on test…Read More