Standards Newsletter - June 22, 2022

June 22, 2022

Creating Collaborative Civic Spaces: A Workshop for K-12 Teachers

The goal of this workshop is to support participants in creating collaborative civic spaces in their classrooms to enable effective communication among students. Collaborative civic spaces are safe places where students can collaborate on civic issues and action plans though civil discussion and democratic discourse while proposing solutions and developing action plans.

Teachers who participate in this workshop will be engaging with the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE) Creating Collaborative Civic Spaces module through Google Classroom to support and empower schools and districts in cultivating and nurturing the collaborative civic spaces necessary to meet the instructional shifts within the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.

Participants also will submit deliverables throughout their learning and develop a lesson plan exemplifying what creating a collaborative space aligned to the KAS for Social Studies looks like in practice.

Selected teachers will receive an $800 stipend for their participation in the workshop, which includes the completion and submission of high-quality deliverables.

To apply for this opportunity, please complete the Creating Collaborative Civic Spaces: A Workshop for Teachers Application.

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Register by Aug. 5 for the Kentucky Reading Academies

A child’s ability to read is a critical predictor of both educational and lifelong success. Kentucky’s youngest readers must have every opportunity to develop their literacy skills, but as our schools tackle unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teacher must have unprecedented support.

In response to this critical need, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has a new, exciting partnership to bring the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) professional learning to educators across the Commonwealth, called the Kentucky Reading Academies. This course of study was specifically chosen because of its demonstrated success on a national scale in bringing significant increases in literacy achievement.

The Kentucky Reading Academies will offer comprehensive no-cost professional learning in three phases starting in fall 2022, beginning with up to 2,400 K-5 educators.

Find out more about the Kentucky Reading Academies in the recording of the informational webinar!

For questions about the Kentucky Reading Academies, please email KDE Chief Academic Officer, Micki Ray.

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