Encourage teachers and principals to participate in TELL Kentucky Survey
Please encourage all teachers, principals and other school-based certified educators to take part in the 2013 TELL Kentucky Survey. As of Monday afternoon, there was a 57.67 percent participation rate...
View ArticleState board supports Common Core, Next-Generation Science Standards
The Kentucky Board of Education publicly supported the Common Core State Standards and adopted new science standards at its June meeting.
View ArticleKentucky schools recognized for working conditions
Ten Kentucky public schools have been recognized for the teaching conditions, school safety and student achievement in their buildings. The ten were selected based on data from the Teaching, Educating,...
View ArticleFeedback, engagement critical to schools, students continued progress
No matter how busy my schedule gets as Kentucky’s education commissioner, I am always interested in receiving feedback. That’s one of the many reasons I meet regularly with staff, connect through...
View ArticleTELL Kentucky Survey off to a good start; first cash award given
After just one week, more than 9,500 Kentucky educators have taken part in the TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) Survey of school working conditions. That represents about 18 percent of...
View ArticleTeachers’ voices make a difference
A guiding principle for our work in Kentucky is that we do the hard work of reform WITH teachers and not TO teachers. What does this principle look like in practice? In 2011, Kentucky implemented the...
View ArticleTELL Kentucky response sets record; results due next month
Kentucky educators have set a new record with their response to the 2015 Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Kentucky Survey. Nearly 45,000 – 89.3 percent – of school-based certified...
View ArticleTELL survey shows improved school working conditions
Overall, Kentucky educators are more positive about teaching and learning conditions in their schools than they were in 2013 according to results from the Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning...
View ArticleKentucky teachers TELL state about improved working conditions
Educators across the state are more positive about teaching and learning conditions in their schools than they were in 2013 according to results from the 2015 Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning...
View ArticleTeacher leadership rings true at Bell Elementary
Teachers and administrators at one Wayne County elementary school say a system of shared leadership is working.
View Article2015 Kentucky Winner’s Circle schools recognized
Ten Kentucky public schools were recognized Sept. 21 for outstanding teaching and learning conditions.
View Article2017 TELL Kentucky working conditions survey underway
From now through March 31, school-based certified educators in all 173 Kentucky school districts will be able to share their thoughts about the working conditions in their schools through the 2017 TELL...
View ArticleTELLing it like it is
The biennial anonymous survey of working conditions in Kentucky’s public schools runs through March.
View ArticleTELL Kentucky off to a good start; participants earn cash
After just one week, more than 17,300 Kentucky educators have taken part in the TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) Survey of school working conditions. That represents about 38 percent...
View ArticleMore than half of educators complete TELL Kentucky Survey
More than half of Kentucky’s school-based educators have taken part in the TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) Survey of school working conditions in just the first two weeks of the survey.
View ArticleThree-quarters of educators complete TELL Kentucky Survey
By the third week of the TELL Survey, more than three-quarters of Kentucky’s school-based educators had completed the survey of school working conditions. The survey, which is now in its fourth week,...
View Article2017 TELL Kentucky survey sets record; results due next month
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Kentucky educators have set a new record with their response to the 2017 Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Kentucky survey. More than 41,400 – nearly 91 percent – of...
View Article2017 Kentucky Winner’s Circle schools recognized
The Kentucky Department of Education recognized 10 Kentucky public schools on Sept. 18 for outstanding teaching and learning conditions. These Winners’ Circle schools were recognized for their...
View ArticleImpact Kentucky survey gives teachers a voice
The Kentucky Department of Education and Panorama Education will administer the Impact Kentucky working conditions survey to certified staff members at schools across Kentucky in January.
View ArticleImpact Kentucky survey an easier way for teachers to weigh in
The Impact Kentucky survey, which opened today to certified staff members at schools across Kentucky, is shorter and will require less time to complete than previous working conditions surveys.
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