Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management Eugene OR. Building Support for Multiage Education. ERIC Digest, Number 114. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC BUILDING SUPPORT FOR MULTIAGE EDUCATION Multiage education involves placing children of different ages, abilities, and emotional maturity in the same classroom. Students are frequently regrouped for different learning activities rather than being consistently segregated by chronological age, and they often remain with the same teacher or teaching team for more than one year. Many different labels have been applied to such classes, including "family grouping, blends, nongraded, and multiage continuous progress." Research indicates that heterogeneous grouping promotes cognitive and social growth, reduces antisocial behavior, and facilitates the use of research-based developmentally appropriate instructional practices such as active learning and integrated curriculum. The wider range of ages and abilities in a multiage classroom discourages misleading age-graded expectations and helps teachers focus on students' individual learning needs.
AE Resources resources The following is a sampling of the implementation of the kentucky EducationReform Act. supports individual communities through parent and community http://www.annenberginstitute.org/toolbox/accountabilityevents/aeresources.html
Extractions: http://www.achievementcouncil.com The Achievement Council works with schools and their communities in the use of data tools and strategies to help in the process of reform, as a means of building relationships and enhancing communication. They invite schools to use data as a lens through which to examine counterproductive and unequal school practices and remedy those inequalities. http://www.croton.com/allpie The Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education is a nonprofit organization which encourages parental involvement in public school, private school, or home education. The Alliance provides assistance to it's member parent groups. AllPIE offers a newsletter (Options in Learning), annual conferences and retreats, a book catalog, workshops, lending library and more. Alliance Organizing Project
Untitled Be sure to click on publications, materials, and parent info. http//www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/education/KAGE/KAGEKentuckyAssociation for Gifted education http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/tr/gt/10.html
Links West kentucky educational Cooperative. Regional Vision for education (SERVE) Specializesin early childhood education. National parent Information Network. http://www.ovec.org/Links.htm
Extractions: Education Departments Education Related Sites OVEC Schools Districts/Schools Other Kentucky Cooperatives ... The Cultural Consortium of Kentuckiana The following sites are operated by governmental agencies directly involved in education. United States Department of Education Kentucky Department of Education Kentucky Council on Post Secondary Education Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board This category includes educational related sites. Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA) AEL NCREL Research for Better Schools ... EvaluTech (Software Evaluations) Milken Exchange on Education Technology AmeriCorps Kentucky Association of School Administrators Kentucky School Boards Association ... Collaborative for Teaching and Learning Below are web sites of OVEC District web sites Anchorage Public Schools Bullitt County Public Schools Carroll County Public Schools Carroll County School-to-Work Project ... West Point Independent School Other Kentucky Educational Cooperatives: Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative Badgett Regional Cooperative for Educational Enhancement Green River Educational Cooperative Kentucky Educational Development Corporation ... West Kentucky Educational Cooperative Regional Laboratories
Family Help In Kentucky kentucky Special parent Involvement Network (KYSPIN). kentucky Youth Advocates. Publicpolicy organization that provides research, data, education, and limited http://www.focusas.com/Kentucky.html
Extractions: Focus Adolescent Services Need help for your teen? Call FocusAS or Family Help in Kentucky Click here to find out if your child is at-risk, displaying self-destructive behaviors, and needs your help and intervention. Home Resources State Directory Schools ... Contact Hotlines and Helplines ChildhelpUSA Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD Kentucky Adult/Child Abuse Hotline Kentucky Parent Helpline Kentucky Sex Offender Alert Line Kentucky Suicide and Crisis Hotlines National Domestic Violence/Abuse Hotline Toll-Free Numbers for Health Information Help support Focus Adolescent Services every time you shop online. Simply sign up, specify Focus Adolescent Services as your charitable institution and go shopping Organizations and Agencies The Behavior Home Page A collaboration of The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) and the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling at UK (SERC) that provides a format allowing school personnel, parents, and other professionals to gain access to information, to share effective practices, and to receive consultation and technical assistance concerning the full range of behavior problems and challenges displayed by children and youth in school and community settings. Visit
Alma College Dept. Of Education education In Rural kentucky. Special education resources on the Internet. PER (Parenteducation resources) The education Career Center. education Search Engines. http://www.alma.edu/academics/education/resources.htm
ERIC Digest 114 - Building Support For Multiage Education leaders formed the Partnership for kentucky School Reform What Obstacles Can HinderMeaningful parent Involvement? parents as partners in education and seek http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest114.html
Extractions: Clearinghouse on Educational Management Previous (Digest 113) Next (Digest 115) By Joan Gaustad Multiage education involves placing children of different ages, abilities, and emotional maturity in the same classroom. Students are frequently regrouped for different learning activities rather than being consistently segregated by chronological age, and they often remain with the same teacher or teaching team for more than one year. Many different labels have been applied to such classes, including family grouping, blends, nongraded, and multiage continuous progress. Research indicates that heterogeneous grouping promotes cognitive and social growth, reduces antisocial behavior, and facilitates the use of research-based developmentally appropriate instructional practices such as active learning and integrated curriculum. The wider range of ages and abilities in a multiage classroom discourages misleading age-graded expectations and helps teachers focus on students' individual learning needs. Why Is Parent and Community Support Important?
KCTE/LA Selected Links Click on the logo to view our parent organization's pages. kentucky Reading Association;kentucky education Television; kentucky Humanities Council; http://www.kcte.org/links/
The DRM Regional Resource Directory: Kentucky with Special Health Care Needs kentucky Special parent Involvement Network Associationof Greater Cincinnati (DSAGC) education kentucky Department of http://www.disabilityresources.org/KENTUCKY.html
Extractions: Home Subjects States Librarians ... Contact Us The DRM Regional Resource Directory Kentucky - The Bluegrass State Updated 9/2001 All the States About / Hints / Link Arts Kentucky Center for the Arts - Accessibility Information Minds Wide Open Art Center VSA Arts of Kentucky Assistive Technology enTECH (Enabling Technologies of Kentuckiana) Bluegrass Technology Center Kentucky Assistive Technology Loan Corporation Kentucky Assistive Technology Services Network (KATS) Autism Autism Society of Kentuckiana (ASK) Autism Society of Western Kentucky Kentucky Autism Training Center Child Evaluation Center (KATC) Blindness and Visual Impairments Audio Studio for the Reading Impaired Kentucky Department for the Blind Kentucky School for the Blind Kentucky Talking Book Library ... Talking Book Library of Northern Kentucky Brain Injury
Contact Information Other examples, Adult education, parent activities, early childhood programs andparent and Child of Southern kentucky, Corbin, kentucky, Jefferson County http://www.murraystate.edu/meeic/Grant41.html
Extractions: Contact Information Name of the Organization Kentucky Department of Education, Division of Extended Learning Type of resource State Contact person Annette Bridges Address Kentucky Department of Education 16th Floor Capital Plaza Tower 500 Mero Street Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Telephone number Fax number E-mail address abridges@kde.state.ky.us Web site address http://www.des.state.ky.us/agencies/wforce/adulted.htm Resources Provided to Support STW Name of program Even Start Family Literacy Program Number of grants awarded 2-7 per year Amounts of awards Range, $75,000 - 90,000 Grant Period 4 years, possible continuation for 4 years Mission of resource program Break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy with 0-7 year olds and parents who qualify for adult education. Allowable/unallowable costs Salaries, benefits, staff development costs, instructional materials for the target population. No administrative or indirect costs. Steps to Secure Funding Who is eligible to apply One or more school districts and one or more nonprofit community-based organizations Deadline information February Steps to apply Technical assistance workshops are held. The Department staff and the National Center for Family Literacy are available for technical assistance. Full proposals are required and the application is very specific. Requires high level grantwriting skills to develop 15 page proposal.
Extractions: Kentucky Derby Tickets Need Tickets and a Hotel? Kentucky Derby Packages Kentucky Education The Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership - Trains parents to work with teachers and other parents to raise student achievement in their home communities. Council on Postsecondary Education - Provides a list of state supported colleges and universities within the Commonwealth, including links. The Kentucky Academy of Technology Education - Provides news articles and resources for public educators. Kentucky Association for School Health: KASH - An organization for advocacy to ensure improvements in the quality of health and life for children. Kentucky Council on Economic Education - Non-profit economic education organization that provides training for (K-12) teachers and provides EconomicsAmerica curriculum for the classroom. Kentucky Department of Education - site has information on schools and school districts and includes resources for parents, teachers, and administrators.
Extractions: March 25, 1996 By PETER APPLEBOME AYTON, Ky. At a time of incessant alarms about the need to revamp American education, one state has actually done it Kentucky, where a landmark court ruling six years ago produced the most comprehensive overhaul of public education the nation has ever seen. The 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act, or KERA, has produced almost everything critics of American education call for: higher standards, more money, fairer allocation of resources, new curriculums, more creative teaching, better counseling, improved technology and a philosophy that acknowledges the myriad influences outside the classroom that affect learning. But more than five years after its adoption, there is little definitive evidence that it is working, and the reception inside the state is far more mixed than the raves Kentucky gets from outside. As the nation's governors prepare for their second national conference on education, six years after President George Bush first called them together for that purpose, Kentucky's experience says as much about the difficulties of wholesale restructuring as it does about the payoffs. "This is kind of like being a parent," said Debbie Yeager, an eighth-grade reading teacher at Dayton High School here, a town that is a little slice of Appalachia across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. "You try your best, but you don't know if you did your job right until your kids turn 21."
NCTAF - Links SHEEO) State Partner Links kentucky education Professional Standards education ExecutiveOfficers (SHEEO) parent Community for Law and education Childrens http://www.nctaf.org/links/
Kentucky Homeschooling - A To Z Home's Cool kentucky Support Groups List from Home education Magazine Inside this innovative helper,you'll find kidtested and parent-approved techniques for learning http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/regional/Kentucky.htm
Extractions: Click on the banner for recommended books and supplies for homeschooling A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Regional I am Ann Zeise , your guide to the best and most interesting and useful sites and articles about home education on the web. Search Home Recent Articles Events Join Email List ... Free Newsletter
Parent Training And Information Centers (PTIs) Families ACT; kentucky Special parent Involvement Network (SPIN Sinergia/Metropolitanparent Center United We Stand; Ohio Coalition for the education of Children http://www.dssc.org/frc/TAGuide/pti.htm
Extractions: Home Funded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Parent Training and Information Centers in each state provide training and information to parents of infants, toddlers, school-aged children, and young adults with disabilities and the professionals who work with their families. This assistance helps parents participate more effectively with professionals in meeting the educational needs of children and youth with disabilities. Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona
Extractions: The Parent and Child Education (PACE) program was first funded by the Kentucky Legislature in 1986. It was put in place in six rural counties, expanded the following legislative session to 18 counties, and finally to 36. Some of the programs decided to combine, but there still are approximately 30 PACE programs throughout Kentucky. The Kenan Family Literacy Project sprang from the wellspring of experience and expertise gathered from the PACE program. The first Kenan Model family literacy sites were established in 1988 in Louisville, Kentucky (three inner-city sites) and in four North Carolina cities (Marshall, Henderson, Fayetteville and Wilmington.) From PACE it was learned that staff members needed a great deal of training and staff development; therefore, the Kenan Model teacher received ongoing staff development Kenan Model Components The Kenan Family Literacy Project paved the way for establishment of the National center for Family Literacy (NCFL). NCFL, a private, nonprofit organization, was founded in 1989 through a grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, NCFL works to ensure that all families at the lowest ends of both the literacy and economic continua will have opportunities to improve their education and economic and social well-being through quality family literacy programs.
Extractions: Related Articles Related Resources ... Programs School Administrators Article S C H O O L A D M I N I S T R A T O R S A R T I C L E The research is clear: When parents and communities are involved in schools, education improves. From New York to California, from an individual student's notebook to community-outreach programs, here are five approaches to parental and community involvement that work! Included: Five successful programs for parent and community involvement plus links to dozens of online resources! "Research shows the benefits of parent involvement in kids' education," principal Jerry Eichholz told Education World. "I believe it's very important to help parents understand what it is they can do to help the student succeed. I try to show parents how to be actively involved." Eichholz is the principal of Highland Elementary School in the Riverview Gardens School District of St. Louis County, Missouri
Education Associations LABORATORIES Appalachia educational Lab Serving kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia thatthe health and education of children are National parent Information Network. http://www.idcnet.com/~cstewart/elibasoc.htm
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Extractions: LD OnLine introduces the LD OnLine Yellow Pages ! This exciting new venture brings information about professionals who serve children and adults with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. If you are a professional interested in listing your services, sign-up online now! Select a State Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota
Extractions: Kentucky Education Data 2002 CATS data 2002 CTBS state, district and school data 2000-01 School Report Cards : Find your school report card and growth chart to see how much your school must improve to meet the goal of 100 by 2014. 2001 CATS data 1993-2001 Non-academic data : Review data on dropout, attendance, retention and transition to adult life by school or district. Teacher Certification Inquiry : This Education Professional Standards Board site allows you to check Kentucky educators' certifications online.
