Register Now for Curriculum Design and Implementation Guidance Leadership Meetings
In order to provide equitable learning environments for all students, it is important for schools and districts to translate the Kentucky Academic Standards into a guaranteed and viable curriculum. The regional educational cooperatives, in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, will host meetings in March for district and school leaders to examine a process for developing standards-aligned curriculum at the local level.
The March meetings will focus on building an understanding of the role of standards, curriculum and instructional resources, components of a curriculum development process as outlined in the revised “Model Curriculum Framework” and the toolkit of supporting resources. The session also will include an update on additional new resources available to support standards implementation.
Click on the date to learn more and register for the three-hour session of your choice.
- March 4: London, Southeast/South-Central Educational Cooperative - Sessions full
- March 5: Hazard, Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative Session 1
- March 11: Ashland, Kentucky Educational Development Corporation Session 1 and Session 2
- March 17: Eddyville, West Kentucky Educational Cooperative Session 1 and Session 2
- March 18: Bowling Green, Green River Regional Educational Cooperative Session 2
- March 24: Lexington, Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative Session 2
- March 25: Shelbyville, Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative Session 1
- March 31: Florence, Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services Session 2
 ‘Elementary Social Studies Focus: Healthy Integration of the KAS for Social Studies and the KAS for Reading and Writing’ Webcast Recording and Slides
In case you weren’t able to watch the webcast live last week, you can review the "Elementary Social Studies Focus: Healthy Integration of the KAS for Social Studies and the KAS for Reading and Writing" webcast recording and slides at your convenience.
‘Elementary Social Studies Focus: Healthy Integration of the KAS for Social Studies and the KAS for Reading and Writing’ Digital Professional Learning Opportunity to Release Tomorrow
This month’s digital professional learning opportunity is a brand new module that will explain the value of social studies experiences for students in elementary school, and the benefits of content knowledge for reading comprehension and writing skills.
This module also will focus on building teacher capacity to effectively integrate the newly adopted Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies and the KAS for Reading and Writing. Participants will discover the connections between the two sets of standards and be empowered to teach social studies as a compelling content for growing proficient readers and writers.
The module will be available on the Social Studies Professional Learning Modules webpage and via email to subscribers of the Standards Newsletter.
March Focus on Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing
During March, the Standards Team will focus on the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Reading and Writing with two informative webcasts and the release of a digital professional learning opportunity at the end of the month.
The best learning will result from participating in all three activities, however, please join us as you are able!
‘New KAS Resources for Reading and Writing’ webcast, 9 a.m. ET March 5
This webcast will review professional learning from the fall semester and highlight new resources to support the implementation of the KAS for Reading and Writing. An Implementation guidance document will be featured to assist schools and districts in guiding their progress through the KAS for Reading and Writing professional learning resources.
‘Creating Text Dependent Questions to Support Implementation of the KAS for Reading and Writing’ webcast 9 a.m. ET March 19
As we explore the new professional learning module, "Understand Text Dependent Questions," this webcast will demonstrate how to create text dependent questions that are aligned to the KAS for Reading and Writing.
‘Creating Standards Aligned Text Dependent Writing Tasks’ Digital Professional Learning Opportunity
This professional learning opportunity is designed for professional learning communities (PLCs) to engage in crafting text dependent writing tasks. Learning will build upon knowledge from the "Understand Text Dependent Questions module featured on the March 12 webcast. PLCs will be able to work at their own pace through this learning experience and will create a writing task based on a text set.
Accessing These Opportunities
You can access the live webcasts by going to the KDE Media Portal and clicking on the EdCast Video icon at the bottom of the page. The livestream will be on the “Home” tab. You can get your questions answered during the webcasts using GoSoapBox with the access code: KAS.
An archive of the webcast and slides will be made available on the Standards Webcast webpage shortly after the original air date.
The digital professional learning opportunity will be released through the Standards Newsletter and also will be made available on the Reading & Writing Professional Learning Modules webpage.
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