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 July 31, 2024
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Adolescent Literacy Professional Learning Opportunity: Developing Skilled Middle and High School Readers Cohort
Join Office of Teaching and Learning literacy consultants for a free professional learning series built around the topics below. Recordings and resources will be available to participants unable to attend a particular session.
Session 1: September How Do We Learn to Read? Exploring Theoretical Frameworks for Reading Development
Session 2: October Decoding Multisyllabic Words within Complex, Grade-Level Texts
Session 3: November Fluency Building within Complex, Grade-Level Texts
Session 4: December Vocabulary and Knowledge Building Essentials
Session 5: January Comprehension as Both Process and Product
Session 6: February Connecting Skilled Reading to Skilled Writing
Participants will engage in six online, synchronous monthly learning sessions with asynchronous readings and opportunities to practice skills with students. Each session will conclude with opportunities to connect learning to classroom practices.
NEW Resource Around Kentucky Phenomena
The Kentucky Atlas of Phenomena (KAP), now available on the KyStandards Science Resources webpage, was developed by Kentucky educators for Kentucky educators. This website provides support to science teachers as they develop their understanding of various natural world phenomena that are common to Kentucky and the disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) needed to explain those phenomena.
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Based in the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Science and uses a “three-dimension of science model of learning;”
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A resource and tool for teacher professional learning that is intended to help teachers conceptualize their understandings and see connections between the scientific ideas and phenomena;
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A tool to explore local phenomena Kentucky teachers have observed or experienced;
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A process for making connections between local phenomena and the KAS for Science; and
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Scaffolded for basic, intermediate and advanced understandings of science ideas, which demonstrates the progression of learning over time.
The goal is to continue to grow the KAP website with various local science phenomena. To share a Kentucky phenomenon with us, support is provided on the website under the tab “How to Share Phenomenon Bundles.” Please complete the google form in its entirety to submit a Kentucky phenomenon for consideration. If you have any questions regarding how to submit a bundle or the contents on the KAP website, please email kdescience@education.ky.gov.
Standards Newsletter Archive
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Model Curriculum Framework webpage
Standards Resources webpage
KY Academic Standards webpage
Register NOW for the Kentucky Reading Academies: Cohort 3 of LETRS Professional Learning
Registration for the third Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) cohort of the Kentucky Reading Academies will be open from May 1, 2024, through August 30, 2024.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has an exciting partnership that brings the LETRS professional learning to educators across the Commonwealth, called the Kentucky Reading Academies. This course of study was chosen because of its demonstrated success on a national scale in bringing significant increases in literacy achievement.
The Kentucky Reading Academies is a comprehensive no-cost professional learning opportunity open to all K-5 public school educators. Over 4,000 Kentucky educators and administrators are participating in the LETRS professional learning opportunity.
Two different courses are being offered through the Kentucky Reading Academies: LETRS for Educators and LETRS for Administrators. Interested educators can join the Kentucky Reading Academies by registering for the course that pertains to their role:
LETRS for Educators Cohort 3 Registration: This course is recommended for K-5 teachers, interventionists, reading specialists and anyone providing reading instruction or intervention supports to early readers.
Please NOTE: Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 participants will not need to register for Cohort 3, as they are already enrolled in the professional learning.
For questions about the Kentucky Reading Academies, please email KDE Director of Early Literacy Christie Biggerstaff.
CONTACT INFORMATION
standards@education.ky.gov
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