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Champions for Health Photo Contest – for Elementary Administrators and Instructional Coaches
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Building Bridges Across Cultures Project – for All Administrators
2019 KCKPS Literacy Festival – for All Principals
2020 Kansas Horizon Award Application Now Available – for All Administrators
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Champions for Health Photo Contest
from Jodie Lin
What would your students do with $2,500? The Champions for Health photo contest gives students the power to make big changes at their school that support health. Through photo essays classrooms submit health and wellness project proposals designed for kids by kids.
Using the activities in the Champions for Health curriculum, students think critically about their communities??? features, such as walking trails or broken sidewalks, safe playgrounds or blighted lots, schoolyard gardens or fast food restaurants. Students then create projects that promote student wellness, such as through the purchase of new playground balls, pedometers, fruit and vegetable tastings, nutrition education, school wellness council projects and more.
KEY DATES
Contest Begins: August 1, 2019
Contest Ends: December 6, 2019
Winners Notified: January 2020
Youth Summit and Award Ceremony: March 2020
This year, we???re offering 24 prizes:
- 18 Honorable Mention Awards ($100)
- 5 First Place Awards ($1,000)
- 1 Grand Prize ($2,500)
The contest is open to classrooms for grades three through eight and summer school programs in incorporated schools in Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. Also, in Missouri Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte counties may participate. Winning classrooms are expected to use funds for student led wellness projects in the school.
Details via this link:
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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
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.