This 3-day session equips teachers with easy-to-use tools to improve student writing in any subject at any grade level. Based on Judith Hochman’s The Writing Revolution, this session covers clear, step-by-step methods for building sentence and paragraph writing skills. Teachers will learn ways to help students express ideas clearly, understand content better, and gain confidence in their writing. By the end of the session, participants will have a toolkit of effective, research-based strategies to transform writing instruction and boost student success.

The registration fee provides each participant with a copy of The Writing Revolution 2.0.

For more information, contact Tabor Placido at tabor.placido@ckec.org.

The Coaching Connection is a virtual professional learning community designed for instructional coaches across elementary, middle, and high school settings. Each month, coaches will come together to learn, connect, grow, and collaborate as they navigate the opportunities and challenges of instructional coaching.

Each session will include a brief learning segment focused on practical, relevant coaching strategies that can be taken directly back to schools, followed by opportunities for coaches to share ideas, discuss experiences, problem-solve, and learn from one another. Whether you are a new coach or a seasoned coaching professional, The Coaching Connection provides a space to build your practice and connect with others who understand the work.

School Health Operations will be an in depth look at school health programs with specific support from KDE. This training will be open to anyone looking to learn more about school health. The training will include an overview of school health operations in Kentucky with training and discussion on a wide variety of school health topics. This training will be helpful for personnel involved with school health along with those that provide operational support.

Measurable Results: Setting Up Your School For Student Achievement

In schools, the pressure to perform on measurable assessments (KSA, ACT, and others) sometimes seems unbearable. Schools often resort to gimmicks and motivational techniques that, even when effective, are short-term solutions. These efforts are exhausting – for the students and the staff. In this series, you will discover substantive systems and structures that can be put into place, leading to lasting, sustainable improvement in academic performance.

Target Audience: District Administrators, Principals, Assistant Principals, Instructional Coaches, and other leaders (academic-focus)

Trainer: David Young

Date: Tuesday, September 9; Tuesday, December 8; and Tuesday, February 9 (Note: Tuesday, March 9 will be used as a makeup date in case of inclement weather) Time: 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm  – In-Person at CKEC Harrodsburg Campus.

EILA: 9 hours (total)

Move beyond key words, tricks, and memorized shortcuts and help students truly make sense of math word problems. In this interactive virtual session, participants will explore practical routines such as Three Reads, Numberless Word Problems, BET Lines, etc., while drawing from Mathematize It! by Kimberly Morrow-Leong, Sara Delano Moore, and Linda M. Gojak to strengthen students’ reasoning, representation, and problem-solving. Leave with strategies you can use right away with all learners—especially students who struggle with word problems.

Transform your classroom into a thriving culture of mathematical learning for every student. In this three-hour, in-person professional development, we’ll explore how teachers’ and students’ math autobiographies—their past experiences, beliefs, and emotions around math—shape engagement, confidence, and learning in today’s classroom. Participants will learn how to intentionally weave the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) and Mathematics Teaching Practices (MTPs) into daily instruction while addressing math fears, honoring student voice, and building a community where curiosity, reasoning, and collaboration flourish. You’ll walk away with practical, ready-to-use strategies to foster deep thinking and create a classroom culture where math learning is meaningful, inclusive, and empowering.

As the first half of the school year comes to a close, take time to reflect, recharge, and reconnect with the math teacher you want to be! Grounded in Chase Orton’s The Imperfect and Unfinished Math Teacher and NCTM’s Mathematics Teaching Practices, this virtual session will focus on professional growth, purposeful reflection, and practical ways to strengthen mathematics instruction.
Come as you are—imperfect, unfinished, and still growing—and leave encouraged and ready to begin the new year with fresh purpose and ideas.

Fractions are a journey, not a single standard! Join us for a hands-on deep dive into the Kentucky Academic Standards for fractions in Grades 3–5, with a focus on how fraction understanding develops and connects across grade levels.
Participants will explore vertical alignment, key representations, and engaging tasks that build conceptual understanding. Come ready to model, make connections, and leave with classroom-ready activities you can use right away!

The Vibrant Learning Academy brings together district and school leaders and classroom teachers to build vibrant learning in our region — from the classroom to the system level. Participants join one of two pathways, Leaders or Teachers, and work across three sessions throughout the year, culminating in a joint showcase in April where both pathways present what they built, modeled after a student exhibition of learning. Districts are encouraged to bring both a leader and teachers so the work stays connected across pathways.

The Teacher Pathway

The Teachers Pathway is for classroom teachers ready to make vibrant learning a daily reality. Teachers will define what vibrant learning actually looks like day to day, work through small, medium, and large shifts to get there, and think through how to integrate it with their current HQIR. Teachers will also look at types of performance assessment systems and begin planning for how students might begin collecting evidence of their learning, building toward a system such as defenses of learning or student-led conferences. Teachers will leave with concrete moves they can use right away, and design and implement a shift throughout the academy.

Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Special Education Teachers

The Vibrant Learning Academy brings together district and school leaders and classroom teachers to build vibrant learning in our region — from the classroom to the system level. Participants join one of two pathways, Leaders or Teachers, and work across three sessions throughout the year, culminating in a joint showcase in April where both pathways present what they built, modeled after a student exhibition of learning. Districts are encouraged to bring both a leader and teachers so the work stays connected across pathways.

The Leader Pathway

The Leaders Pathway is for district and school leaders ready to build the system-level structures that let vibrant learning take hold and last. Leaders will examine their current structures and systems — including where they stand with Portrait of a Learner, performance outcomes and indicators, and performance assessment — and determine their own next best step, whether that’s naming outcomes for the first time, refining indicators already in place, or designing structures like defenses of learning or student-led conferences. Leaders will identify a clear next step for their district and develop a plan for taking it.

Target Audience: Instructional Coaches, District Leaders, Administration