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2020 Kansas Horizon Award Application Now Available – for All Administrators
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ESL September 20 Information – for Elementary Administrators and Instructional Coaches
Building Bridges Across Cultures Project – for All Administrators
2019 KCKPS Literacy Festival – for All Principals
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2020 Kansas Horizon Award Application Now Available
from Tamla Miller
The Kansas Horizon Award program offers Kansas school districts an excellent opportunity to honor exemplary first-year teachers.
The program, sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education, recognizes and rewards teachers who have served as outstanding representatives of excellent teaching in the elementary and secondary classrooms of the state during their first year of teaching.
Horizon Award winners receive special recognition during the KEEN State Education Conference, which takes place each February in Topeka.
Nominated teachers must have completed their first-year of teaching and be starting their second year. It???s easy to nominate a teacher from your district ??? simply click on this link and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Completed applications must be postmarked no later than Oct. 10, 2019.
We hope you???ll take advantage of this opportunity to recognize and reward first-year teachers in your district.
For more information about the program, please contact Tamla Miller at (785) 296-4950, or e-mail her at tmiller@ksde.org.
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ESL September 20 Information
from Kristen Scott
Principals,
Attached are two power points; one for EC5 and one for Secondary. These power points have information on how you can input certain tasks for our ESL September 20 Count. Your building based ESL staff also has this information.
After reviewing if you still have questions please reach out to either Connie Thao or myself. Thank you.
Building Bridges Across Cultures Project
from Carol Levers
Pittsburg State University is excited to announce an upcoming scholarship opportunity, the Building Bridges Across Cultures: Meeting the Information Needs of the Hispanic Community grant project. This project is funded by the IMLS for teachers interested in becoming a school librarian. Your school district was one of 22 identified by the grant as eligible to participate in this project.
Twenty-five teachers will be selected and will receive full tuition, fees, books, laptop, and other resources to help complete the Master of Science in Educational Technology with a Library Media emphasis through Pittsburg State University. The project commences with a JumpStart program in the fall of 2019, and online courses begin in January, 2020. One mandatory on campus meeting will be held Monday, October 21 from 5:30 ???7:00 p.m. All other parts of the program will be online. Most elements will be asynchronous so participants can access them as time allows. However, there may be some events that require an online conference meeting via Zoom, or another virtual meeting application. There will be a time before courses begin (JumpStart) that immerse participants in the Hispanic culture and Culturally Relevant Teaching practices. Then there are 6 semesters of course work, including 2 summers. At the end of the course work (final semester) and for another 6 months, there will be leadership activities that participants will be expected to engage in.
Attached is a flyer with information on how to apply for this scholarship opportunity.
Applications are due by 1:00 p.m., September 1.
Questions about the grant project and scholarship application can be addressed to:
Dr. Michelle Hudiburg
Dr. Liz Mascher
2019 KCKPS Literacy Festival
from Tracy Cooper
The 2019 KCKPS Literacy Festival will be held November 9, 2019, from 9am-2pm at Schlagle High School. Below you will find links to the Book Battle Reading List and the application for elementary, middle, and high school Book Battle coaches to sign-up for this year???s event.
Book Battle Coaches Application
Book Battle Reading List 2019