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Announcing...

The Kentucky Summer Teacher Academies! Offered as 5-day experiences with follow-up, the Academies are aimed at giving teachers a hands-on experience creating, developing, and modeling standards-based instructional content, learning more in a teacher's subject area, and establishing a learning community in support of developing teacher's leadership skills. Many pay a stipend.

This edition of The E-Line is a listing of the Academies offered for 2005, most of which are still open. Deadlines for most of the Academies are late April through mid May. Some are already full - be sure to sign up soon!

 Click here to see KDE's list, with complete contact information.

The Arts	The Kentucky Center Arts Academies - http://www.kentuckycenter.org/education/kiae.asp Now in its fourth year, the Kentucky Center Arts Academies are a summer tradition, and provide an excellent opportunity for arts and humanities teachers to develop their skills and ideas. Where: Danville, Owensboro, Paducah, Morehead, Oldham County, Hazard When: Multiple, covering the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks in June What: Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama, K-12. Deadline: April 22
Mathematics	Algebraic Thinking in the Middle Grades   Western Kentucky University's Wanda Weidemann offers this outing in the use of active learning for algebra and pre-algebra instruction in middle school. Where: William H. Natcher Elementary School, Bowling Green When: June 6-10 What: Algebra, pre-algebra, grades 5-8 Deadline: May 23 A2: Achieving Algebra Proficiency for Exceptional Students This repeat of the highly-successful 2002 academy will address various learning styles in algebra instruction for this population with the A2 curriculum. Where: Greenwood High School, Bowling Green When: June 13-17 What: Special Needs 9-12 Deadline: May 11 Making Sense of Fractions - http://www.arsi.org/ Another ARSI offering, this one aimed at middle school mathematical reasoning and problem solving using fractions. Where/when: Madison County/Morehead State University When: June 20-24/July 13-17 What: Mathematics, middle school Deadline: May 23
Mathematics/ Science	Mathematics and Science Connections to Forest Ecosystems Join Campbell University faculty at its Clay Hill Memorial Forest and Joan White Howell Environmental Education Center for a week of math and science integration strategies! Where: William H. Natcher Elementary School, Bowling Green When: June 6-10 What: Algebra, pre-algebra, grades 5-8 Deadline: May 23
Practical Living/Health	Be Active for Health Dr. Heather R. Adams-Blair of Eastern Kentucky University heads up this academy aimed at lifetime active living, including Archery, Orienteering/Walking, Ultimate Frisbee/Disc Golf, Contemporary Dancing, Tennis, and Fitness at Home. Where: Eastern Kentucky University When: June 26-30 What: Integrated PL, Grades 6-8 Deadline: May 5 Tap into Fitness: Exercise and Eating for Learning and Life Donna Benton of Jefferson County coordinates this offering from Dr. Louis Heuser M.D., on issues related to health and practical living for intermediate and middle school students. Where: Heuser Clinic/Louisville Youth Training Center When: June 13-17 What: Integrated PL, Grades 5-9 Deadline: Accepting until full
Reading and Writing	Reading, Writing and Technology Across the Curriculum - http://www.jackson.k12.ky.us/teacheracademy Unit development for standards-based writing across the curriculum, coordinated by Jackson County's Norma Thomas. Where: Jackson County Public Schools, McKee When: July 11-15 What: All subjects, grades 6-12 Deadline: June 1 High School Literacy Collaboration: Closing the Achievement Gap Pamela Van Hoose of Jefferson County coordinates this session on struggling high school reading strategies. Where: Iroquois High School, Louisville When: June 1-3, 6-7 What: High School Reading, grades 9-10 Deadline: (none listed) Challenging the Limits: A Special Reading Academy - http://www.grrec.coop.k12.ky.us Using literary circles, attendees will examine risk-taking characters through books, in an integrated approach to reading. Teacher pairs will create and implement units of study that use "...anything but boring book reports." Where: Bowling Green When: June 13-17 What: Readings cross the curriculum, special need students, grades 6-12 Deadline: May 11
Science	Elementary Science Teacher Academy: Changes in the Earth and Sky  - http://www.grrec.coop.k12.ky.us Content knowledge and pedagogy associated the topics listed under "Changes in the Earth and Sky" in the Program of Studies is the focus of this offering from the University of Louisville's Andrew C. Kemp. Where: University of Louisville College of Ed When: July 18-22 What: Science, grades 3/4 Deadline: May 20 Exploring Energy Transformations Through Inquiry -  http://www.arsi.org/ From ARSI comes this academy aimed at inquiry-based strategies on the subject of generics. Where: Lewis County High School When: June 13-17 What: Science, grades K-12 Deadline: May 31 Making Sense of Genetics: From Mendel to Molecules -  http://www.arsi.org/ ARSI also delivers this academy aimed at both pedagogy and content, with immersion in standards-based units of study focused on essential questions on the subject of generics. Where: Rockcastle County High School When: June 20-24 What: Science, grades 6-12 Deadline: May 31 TEC-i: Teachers Engaging, Connecting, Inquiring - http://www.grrec.coop.k12.ky.us Intel's Teach to the Future serves as a technology and organizational base for the construction of units of study utilizing technology, and aimed at scientific inquiry. Where: Elizabethtown Independent School District When: June 6-10 What: Science, grades 1-6 Deadline: May 11
Social Studies	Civic Literacy 101 - http://www.carnegieliteracy.org Offered by the Carnegie Center in Lexington, this academy will focus on improving civic literacy through the Bill of Rights Institute, C-SPAN in the Classroom, and the Center for Civic Education - a real hands-on experience for teachers! Where: Carnegie Center for Literacy, Lexington When: June 8-14 What: Social Studies, grade 8 preferred Deadline: April 25 or until filled