KET Education Staff
January 27, 2021
During the 2015-2020 Ready to Learn grant cycle, KET worked to reach and engage families and communities that are under-resourced. KET is again honored and privileged to be a part of this grant during 2020-2025 cycle.
KET Education Staff
January 27, 2021
Teachers have many questions about Holocaust pedagogy, but Fred Whitaker said the most important question is one they should ask themselves: Why am I teaching about the Holocaust? Whittaker teaches at St. Francis of Assisi in Louisville. A passionate advocate for Holocaust education, he and others lobbied successfully for mandatory inclusion of Holocaust studies in Kentucky’s middle and high schools.
KET Education Staff
January 20, 2021
KET has new educational resources for teaching students about the Holocaust. The new Juliek’s Violin collection, available in PBS LearningMedia, features three videos from a Louisville concert on Holocaust remembrance.
KET Education Staff
January 14, 2021
2020 will go down as a year like no other for most people. While many will talk about the challenges of halting normal routines due to a global pandemic, Heather Farley will speak of 2020 as a year when she accomplished a big goal. In November, she completed her high school equivalency credential, something she had been working toward for years.
KET Education Staff
January 6, 2021
Recently the KET Early Childhood Education team introduced a 2-hour training for educators on Sesame Street in Communities as a part of the Virtual Learning Series. Sesame Street in Communities resources cover topics from developmental milestones to traumatic experiences.
KET Education Staff
January 4, 2021
During a typical school year, students visit KET’s Media Lab by the dozens for workshops on using multimedia in learning projects. This year, the Media Lab mostly comes to them, via the internet. Cynthia Warner, KET’s multimedia education consultant, is making the pandemic’s “new normal” work for students across the state in the virtual setting.
KET Education Staff
January 4, 2021
Are you looking for ways to supplement at-home learning? Check out Let’s Learn, a one-hour program for children ages 3-8 that features science, math, reading, social studies, and the arts—as well as virtual field trips. Tune in Monday through Friday at 2/1 pm on KET.
KET Education Staff
December 14, 2020
It’s been a challenging fall semester for educators, so KET is offering a special online communal viewing event about teaching in these unprecedented times. Educators are invited to watch and discuss A Trusted Space, a new film on mitigating the effects of grief and trauma affecting students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KET Education Staff
December 8, 2020
KET Early Childhood recently offered a new Informational Text with Molly of Denali workshop as part of KET Education's Virtual Learning Series. Molly of Denali centers on 10-year-old Molly Mabray, her family, trusty sidekicks Tooey and Trini, and four-legged friend Suki. The series was created to model various ways that children can use informational texts in their daily lives.
KET Education Staff
December 6, 2020
On Saturday November 14th, educators from all over Kentucky grabbed their morning coffee and joined KET Early Childhood for a virtual EdCamp. Over 40 participants joined the “un-conference” to discuss topics chosen by them beforehand. Virtual learning, integrating media, and engaging families were among the many topics covered.