FEATURES Serving Teachers, Transforming Lives Developing New Resources Families Learning Together User Friendly Websites & Apps Health Initiatives
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FROM KET’S SENIOR EDUCATION DIRECTOR KET’s Education Division is proud to be a trusted partner in lifelong learning for teachers, students and families. Nothing thrills us more than hearing educational success stories from people in all walks of life. In our annual report, we’re sharing some of these stories, as well as news about our latest initiatives in online content development, family learning, and adult education. As technology evolves and the needs of Kentuckians change, we continue to transform the way we deliver content and services. We have revamped the KET.org/education website, as well as our websites for Online Campus and Childcare Training. Our new content focuses on competencies needed to succeed in today’s economy—STEM, workforce skills, world languages, and media arts technology. Our diverse team of consultants, teachers, and content producers is committed to ensuring that Kentuckians have access to the best instructional materials and training, from early childhood through adulthood. Looking ahead, we take our inspiration from the Kentuckians we meet to create the resources needed for our common purpose: an educated, thriving state. Sincerely,
Tonya L. Crum
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SERVING TEACHERS, TRANSFORMING LIVES From early childcare centers to public schools to adult education classrooms, Kentucky teachers turn to KET resources to engage learners. KET resources are used in each of the over 1,200 K-12 public schools in the state of Kentucky. In the digital world, KET reaches thousands of teachers through online resources in PBS LearningMedia. Face-to-face workshops offered by KET reach thousands more teachers and their students. • By the end of the 2016-17 school year, over 94,000 Kentucky educators and students had accounts in PBS LearningMedia, an online repository of free digital content for PreK-12 teachers. More than 375,000 logins led to 1.7 million views of content. • Free KET workshops reached more than 11,850 teachers and students in K-12 Kentucky schools in 2016-17. But our reach goes beyond the K-12 school years. In every region of the state, KET offers workshops for early childhood educators to boost children’s kindergarten readiness. KET reaches adult education teachers with materials and training in each of Kentucky’s 120 counties—and in states throughout the nation.
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Tonia Whitaker
Behind those big numbers are the success stories of lives transformed through learning. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION When Tonia Whitaker, director of the Temple Academy Learning Center in Louisville, learned of the free training KET offers in Louisville’s West End through a childcare networking agency, she jumped at the chance to get her teachers trained and the curriculum in her center. “I was flabbergasted by it,” she remembered. “First of all, by the high quality of the materials that we got and then the easiness of their use.” Jefferson County was among the 81 counties KET reached in 2016-17 with free early-learning workshops to boost children’s school readiness in science, math, social studies, health and the arts. Teachers at Temple Academy were excited about what they learned and about bringing it back to their classrooms, Whitaker said.
Ashley Judd
“When we got the staff trained, it was a real morale boost,” she said. “Sometimes you just get in a rut. The KET instructors were very inviting, very engaging, and very informative. And you walked away thinking, ‘Oh you know, I can do this!’” Whitaker said KET materials like Art to Heart and Everyday Science spur the curiosity of young children. “It’s a wonderful springboard for them — they start saying, ‘Oh I can do this! And how about this?’” “Speaking on behalf of children — especially children in areas that may not have opportunities because of income — these materials and training have been so beneficial,” Whitaker said. “We need to be able to provide resources for our teachers who take care of the youngest and most vulnerable among us. That’s a huge return on your dollars.” IN THE SCHOOLS KET’s person-to-person contact with K-12 teachers is maintained thanks to our regional education consultants. The consultants train teachers on video production and use of digital media in the classroom, tailored to fit the specific needs of each school.
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KET education consultants traveled to schools and delivered 556 classroom workshops in 2016-17. Jackson County teacher Ashley Judd, who was named Kentucky’s PBS Digital Innovator of 2017, uses technology and materials available through KET to make learning engaging and fun for her students. Education that incorporates technology is especially important in a county where many families live in poverty. “We can break the chains of poverty, and I think KET is the first step in doing that,” she said. “I feel like if I get them prepared to use this technology, then they’re going to go out into the world and they’re going to be prepared to succeed, and, perhaps, break those chains of poverty.” Uses of digital tools in the classroom are as varied as classrooms themselves. Students can learn to make videos to describe a scientific process in the classroom or inform the school with a newscast. With guidance from teachers, students can make interactive web pages or do simple coding with apps like ScratchJr. Sam Northern, a library media specialist at Simpson County Elementary School and Kentucky’s PBS Digital Innovator of
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2016, said KET materials help him teach multiple literacies, visual and digital as well as textual, to his students. “I really can’t imagine developing instruction without the help of KET,” he said. TRAINING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Professional development for teachers has never been more convenient with online, self-paced courses created by KET. KET awarded more than 47,000 certificates for professional development courses in 2016-17. Work began on teacher training videos on formative assessment in science, funded by a grant from the Kentucky Department of Education. Formative assessments, such as quizzes and teacher observations, are used by teachers to help guide their day-to-day instruction.
ADVANCING ADULT LEARNERS KET consultants trained 1,050 teachers on using instructional technology in the adult education classroom. For the fifth year, Kentucky Adult Education funded efforts to encourage technology usage in the adult education classroom. Teachers in the adult education classroom use KET’s FastForward learning system to help students earn their high school equivalency. The classroom license comes with a Teacher Toolkit with extension activities, additional instructional videos, and a course management system to track student progress. Students can also purchase the courses and learn on their own in this self-paced system. The four online courses cover math, language arts, science, and social studies.
Also in development is on an online training module for principals about the role of Family Resource and Youth Services Centers in their schools. These centers help academically at-risk students succeed in school by helping to minimize or eliminate non-cognitive barriers to learning, such as poverty and poor health.
FastForward is serving more users than ever, growing by 53 percent in 2016-17.
Several KET-produced training videos, serving a variety of audiences, including teachers, caregivers, and parents, were created in 2016-17:
She passed all four parts of the test on the first try. “I studied with the FastForward program at home every night, just about. I don’t think I could have done it without it,” she said.
• Project AWARE a collection of videos on PBS LearningMedia on how adults can guide children and teenagers in their use of social media. Project AWARE is a federal grant program that supports teachers, schools, and communities in recognizing and responding to mental health concerns among youth.
Her young son is proud she graduated. “He’ll say, ‘Oh, Mommy, you did so good.’ That’s what I want him to have: a mom that he’s proud of and not ashamed of.”
• Exploring Your School’s Data, a course for members of Kentucky’s School-Based Decision Making (SBDM) councils on how to locate and analyze their school’s data on assessments and more. • Managing Challenging Student Behaviors, a video collection that is part of the Promoting Positive Behavior in Schools TeacherLine courses.
“I studied with the FastForward program at home every night... I don’t think I could have done it without it.” Amanda Isner-Cheek, Eddyville
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Amanda Isner-Cheek is one of the many people who earned a GED credential using KET’s FastForward. She studied at the Lyon County Adult Learning Center in Eddyville.
Heads in the Clouds
On Tour with Deborah
Clouds and Weather, a stop-motion animation that teaches children about different types of clouds and their relationship to weather, reached 100,000 views on PBS LearningMedia in May 2017, making it the most viewed preschool resource there. It’s still going strong with almost 106,000 views to date. It’s part of the Everyday Science for Preschoolers collection.
Deborah Harris, administrative assistant in Online Campus, often leads school groups on tours of KET, showing them the studios and behind the scenes in master control. She fields questions
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from curious kids on the “who, what, and why” of TV production. “What are all those buttons for?”
“How much do you make?”
“Do you stay here all day?”
“Has Rhianna been here?”
“What is a cassette?”
“Are we going to be on TV?”
Q. What are you thankful for? For the first time in its history, News Quiz, KET’s weekly 15-minute current events show for grades 4-8, won a national award, the 2016 NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association) Award for Instructional Media – Broadcast Program.
The program, hosted by Kelsey Starks, is followed regularly in 25 states and three countries—including Sweden! News Quiz was KET’s most popular resource on PBS LearningMedia, with almost 65,000 total page views, an average of 2,000 per week, a 60 percent increase over its total page views the previous year. That compares to almost 41,000 total page views, averaging almost 1,200 per week, the previous year. Each episode of News Quiz features an opinion question asking for children’s responses. Here’s a sampling of their replies:
“I am thankful for my teacher, Mrs. Daly because she makes sure that we learn, and she is very funny. She says as a joke that she wants to get the Meanest Teacher of the Year Award. She cares about us a lot. We love Mrs. Daly!” – Alexandria, 4th grade, Ruth Moyer Elementary, Campbell County “I am thankful for my pets because they teach me valuable life lessons. For instance, my cat, Midnight, taught me even though you are tame you can be wild. My other cat, Sandy, taught me to be careful where you walk.” – Cady, 5th grade, Sedalia Elementary, Graves County Q. How would you evaluate News Quiz? “I think News Quiz is great because sometimes it shares news about Russia and that’s where I am from! It makes me feel proud of where I am from.” – Nadya, 4th grade, Meadowthorpe Elementary, Fayette County
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DEVELOPING NEW RESOURCES Teachers need engaging materials for their digitally savvy students, and KET’s expanding collection of multimedia resources brings to life subjects ranging from world languages to computational thinking. In partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, KET is building new world language resources for use in elementary schools. KET is also updating and expanding its world language resources for high school and college students. KET is also a trusted content-development partner on the national level, collaborating with Boston’s WGBH to create model interactive lessons in PBS LearningMedia and to do research for an initiative on teaching computational thinking to preschoolers. A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES KET began teaching foreign languages via satellite in the 1980s and has transformed instructional strategies over the years. Our newest resources are delivered online, available to teachers and students everywhere there is an Internet connection. And those resources are being used more than ever before. Over 10,000 more Kentucky students took a world language class in 2016-17 compared with the previous school year, according to Alfonso De Torres Nuñez, world languages consultant for the Kentucky Department of Education—and 6,500 of those were in elementary school. Part of the credit for that increased enrollment, he said, goes to KET’s award-winning, online elementary Spanish collection, Exploraciones. Exploraciones (Explorations) received a National Educational
Telecommunications Association award for Instructional Media— Teacher Resource in 2016. The collection, available in PBS LearningMedia, offers videos, animations, lesson plans, and more, helping schools meet the Kentucky world language proficiency standards, which state that every learner should use a world language other than English. After the successful launch of Spanish resources, this year KET world languages resource development has expanded to elementary French and German. Découverte (Discovery), a French collection for elementary students, was launched in PBS LearningMedia. The collection includes storytelling performances in French and English by Priscilla Howe, an award-winning bilingual storyteller from Kansas, with a prototype of a course, Allons-y! (Let’s Go!) in development. Pilot lessons in German are also in the works. KET will continue world languages resource development with a grant from the Kentucky Department of Education for 2017-18. KET production of language resources has increased at the high school and college level as well. Online Campus has new videos for its interactive high school courses in Latin and German. And for college students, Online Campus launched Latin 101 in fall 2017 with 27 new videos. Latin 102 is scheduled for release in spring 2018. Online Campus students like Glasgow teen Cody Smith value getting a jump start on the independent learning skills they will need in college. “Distance learning really allows you to gain responsibility because you’ve got to keep up with the course,” Cody said. “So
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there’s a plus there for college—and it allows you to learn at your own pace and learn what is essential to you.” Looking ahead, redesigns are in the works for Chinese and Spanish courses in Online Campus. MODEL LESSONS DESIGNED FOR INTERACTIVITY With its reputation for excellence, KET serves as a trusted national partner in content development. Working with an interactive lesson tool that Boston’s public television network WGBH developed, KET created lessons for PBS LearningMedia that are used as models for other stations. The four resources were created by repurposing video from previously produced broadcasts. • Reclaiming Habitats for Honeybees, a middle school science lesson, was developed from a Kentucky Life segment about Coal Country Beeworks. • Kentucky’s Underground Railroad, a social studies lesson for grades 5-8, was developed from an Emmy-nominated Kentucky Life segment about the Underground Railroad in Northern Kentucky. • Communicating at Work, a vocational education lesson for high school students, was developed from the KET documentary series Dropping Back In.
THIS RESEARCH IS ALL MONKEY BUSINESS Some preschoolers in Eastern Kentucky classrooms are monkeying around, but there’s no mischief here: They are taking the first steps toward learning how to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a sequence. It’s called computational thinking, and it’s more than math. It involves breaking down complex problems into parts, recognizing patterns, concentrating on only the relevant details, and creating step by step solutions. KET is collaborating with preschool teachers in selected preschools over the next two years to observe how young children can learn these concepts during early math instruction. This is part of the development of WGBH’s newest preschool STEM initiative, Monkeying Around. The series features animated monkeys who go from “mess to success” by learning how to sequence and create algorithms, or sets of rules, to solve problems. A grant from the National Science Foundation and WGBH, which runs through December 2018, will pay for monthly visits by KET staff to preschool classrooms in Eastern Kentucky to observe students as they engage with prototype hands-on activities and digital tablet apps with a playful monkey theme. The classrooms were chosen with help of the Appalachian Renaissance initiative, a consortium of 17 school districts.
• Inside Opioid Addiction, a health education lesson for high school students, was developed from KET’s Inside Opioid Addiction Initiative.
“Distance learning really allows you to gain responsibility...and it allows you to learn at your own pace and learn what is essential to you.” Cody Smith, Glasgow
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MEDIA ARTS Taking their place alongside theater, dance, music, and the visual arts, the media arts have come into their own in education. With the Kentucky’s inclusion of media arts in its academic standards, KET has taken the lead in training teachers to implement those standards, which require that students learn both how to create media and how to analyze and critically respond to media.
A longstanding professional development opportunity also continues to attract teachers from across the state. KET welcomed over 160 Kentucky teachers and staff to the annual Multimedia Professional Development Day in July 2016, an increase in attendance of over 25 percent from the 122 that attended the previous year. For the first time, two of the sessions—on drones and Minecraft EDU—were offered as live webcasts.
Expanding upon our already sizable number of media resources for teachers and students, in 2016-17 KET developed a prototype Media Arts Toolkit for teachers. KET also offered free regional teacher trainings in Lexington, Paducah, Bowling Green, and Morehead to help implement the new media arts standards, reaching over 100 teachers.
“I always come away from this event with lots of ideas to bring back to school!” - Fayette County educator
“The class on drones was very informative and engaging.” Hundreds more teachers as well as their students were reached through workshops in KET’s Media Lab, thanks to a grant from the Kentucky Department of Education to reimburse schools for their travel costs to Lexington. KET welcomed 3,012 teachers and students to the Lexington facility for 106 media arts workshops in the 2016-17 school year—more than 2 ½ times the number served the previous year (1,243). The popular program continues in the 2017-18 school year. The Kentucky Department of Education renewed its commitment to the travel reimbursement program.
- Estill County educator
“I really enjoyed the Maker Space presentation. The enthusiasm of the presenter was contagious.” - Elliott County educator
“I liked the hands on presentations like ScratchJr.” - Shelby County educator
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FAMILIES LEARNING TOGETHER When we think of a classroom we often imagine a group of all children or all teens or all adults. However, there’s a new type of learning environment taking shape today that involves multiple generations in the same classroom. Research has found that having a better educated mother goes hand-in-hand with better educational results for children, and new, cutting-edge educational programs are including both parents and children, and often grandparents, to make a greater impact. One of those programs is Family Creative Learning, and KET is involved in a pilot project to reach underserved communities with these multigenerational workshops. Science and literacy are the focus of this multimedia workshop
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series, designed for whole families to learn together. Using media tools like the PBS KIDS ScratchJr creative coding app, families design and create interactive video stories together. The original Scratch is a kid-friendly programming language, and PBS KIDS ScratchJr incorporates PBS shows like Wild Kratts and Peg + Cat. The driving idea is that coding is the new literacy, and the workshops empower parents to be learning partners for their children, ages 5 and older. ”This is exactly the kind of service we love to provide to our community here,” said Sky Marietta, director of community development at Pine Mountain School, which hosted a workshop. Marietta said the workshops helped to bridge the digital divide.
The workshops offer expertise and materials not available to these families before. “It’s bringing in an experienced educator. And even the software and hardware the children are able to use is not the sort of thing that they would have access to otherwise,” she said. “It’s exceptional to have something of that high quality offered here.” Three other locations hosted Family Creative Learning workshops: the Okolona branch of the Louisville Free Public Library with the Louisville Science Center as partner, the DuValle Education Center in Louisville with Jefferson County Public Schools as partner, and the TLC Learning Center in Paintsville with the Community Early Childhood Council in Johnson County as partner. Parents were delighted that the ScratchJr app allowed their children to develop and share a complex story in video form that was beyond their grade reading and writing ability. Beyond coding, the sessions are also designed to reinforce family bonds. Each workshop is divided into four equally important parts: sharing a meal, hands-on explorations, creating their own projects, and sharing those projects with others.
“I loved all the interactions with everyone and it helped my daughter to open up socially.” participating parent, Louisville
The workshops even include craft activities for young siblings and take-home materials for family engagement. The pilot projects reached 25 families, and another workshop series was held in Floyd County in fall 2017. Family Creative Learning Workshops are just part of what is funded by a Ready to Learn grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The five-year grant funds the development of multimedia materials as well as hands-on activities for preschoolers and early elementary school children, especially those who live in low-income communities. Every month KET convenes meetings in each community of the Ready to Learn Community Collaborative for Early Learning & Media Projects (CC-ELM), with all partners coming together on an annual basis to share and learn from each other’s work, with the goal of expanding service and learning opportunities to those in need.
FAMILY LEARNING WITH RUFF RUFFMAN Family learning is also the focus of a new initiative in the adult education classroom. Parents who are taking science classes to earn their GED® credential will learn how to engage their young children, ages 4-8, in science activities using materials from the new PBS KIDS digital series, The Ruff Ruffman Show. The kid-friendly topics—wearable science, sports science, kitchen chemistry, and structures—will be presented in multimedia modules with videos, game play, and hands-on activities that parents can also use at home. KET is one of four national partners in this intergenerational learning project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The materials will build on Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, a research-based and successful children’s television program. Other outreach projects that bring families and communities together: • Odd Squad “Be the Agent” Camp: The program was launched at the Pine Mountain Settlement School with the first camp in the series serving 50 children in summer 2017. For kids ages 5-8, the camp is based on the award-winning PBS Kids TV show, where agents Otto and Olive try to solve cases using math reasoning. Campers watch a video that sets up each case, and then they work together to solve it. Another camp was held as part of a Louisville summer camp, serving 28 children per day. The Floyd County camp in fall 2017 reached 2,200 children and their families. • Daniel Tiger “Be My Neighbor Day”: Building on the values presented in Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, the event encouraged children to do good deeds for others, such as making fleece blankets and decorating holiday cards for senior citizens. In Lexington, 90 families participated in a neighborhood event at the Russell School Community Services Center. A communitywide event at Broad Run Park in Louisville drew over 1,400 people. Be My Neighbor Day was supported by PNC Grow Up Great® and organized by KET in partnership with the Community Action Council and the Fred Rogers Company.
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USER FRIENDLY WEBSITES & APPS With our online audience in mind, the KET Education division launched a new, more user-friendly website on August 1, 2016, designed with a simplified color palette, a new logo and the slogan “Where Learning Comes to Life.� The new website launched as the 2016-17 school year started. Page views of KET.org/education steadily increased after launch, reaching a peak of 86,844 in March 2017, a big increase over March 2016 (45,395). The clean, new look was designed with a color-coded palette for each learner group KET serves: pink for early childhood, orange for K-12, and purple for adult education. In addition, the site is searchable based on subject and on audience (educator, employer, learner, or parent). The KET Education home page also features an Education News module and a Featured Resource module, so that the most recent and relevant news and resources are highlighted for users. A navigation menu on the right side also lists some of the most popular links, such as PBS LearningMedia, the KET Young Writers Contest, and News Quiz. The KET Education Store links to online professional development courses for educators as well as Physics labs for high school and university use.
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Online Campus launched its new name, website, and online course catalog on June 12, 2017. Online Campus reaches high school and university level students, and offers dual credit through Morehead State University in all subjects: Arts in Culture, Mandarin Chinese, Latin, German, and Spanish. These credits are accepted at the many public colleges and universities in Kentucky that have agreements in place for transfers of college credit. For the 2016-17 academic year, Online Campus had an enrollment of 604 students, with 46 of those in the expanded dual credit program offered through Morehead State University’s Early College Program. The Virtual Physics Labs enrolled 1,504 students. The educational technology team did a complete overhaul of the Online Campus Moodle site, an online learning platform. The overhaul included customizing a new theme and layout, building and modifying new plug-ins, and improving archive procedures for year-end reports. Other improvements were made to improve or expand online experiences:
do physics experiments with virtual lab apparatus, studying concepts like torque. The virtual labs can be used as a lab replacement in the classroom, as a demonstration tool, as a study aid for homework, or for individual exploration. Six apps are available, with more in development. • The School Video Project website features a new, easy to use YouTube-like “channel” for schools or organizations to share their projects in a dedicated, safe space online. Student-produced school news programs, public service announcements, art and music videos, classroom projects, example teacher videos, and videos for our special KET School Video Project Challenges can all be shared online. To date there are over 300 videos posted. • The Child Care Training website (launched July 21, 2017) features an updated course catalog that is much easier for the user to navigate. Early childhood educators can find over 50 childhood training courses in a wide array of areas, from learning environments and child development to health and nutrition.
• Some of the Virtual Physics Labs are now available as apps on iTunes. With the apps, students can
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HEALTH INITIATIVES INSIDE OPIOID ADDICTION In the midst of an unprecedented crisis of drug overdose deaths, in 2017 KET premiered Journey to Recovery, a one-hour documentary that examined the opioid epidemic and featured models of recovery. The documentary was the culmination of a collaboration with the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to elevate awareness of the complex issues surrounding addiction prevention and treatment. A total of 1,404 Kentuckians died of drug overdoses in 2016, according to the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, up 7.4 percent from 2015. That increase came after a spike of 21.1 percent from 2014-2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control. KET’s programming for the Inside Opioid Addiction initiative highlighted prevention efforts, treatment models with and without medication, the hepatitis C crisis, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and the work of drug courts. The effort also featured in-depth interviews with over a dozen physicians, policymakers, and advocates.
Inside Oral Health Care initiative, funded in part by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, was designed to raise awareness of the connection between oral health and general well-being, educational performance, mental health, and workforce participation.
The broadcast productions, a collaboration between KET’s Health and Public Affairs teams, involved the creation of the documentary and many other broadcast and online programs for a total of 90 hours of content.
The year-long effort culminated with the premiere in July 2016 of the Health Three60 program “The Hidden Life of Your Mouth.” The program revealed little known facts about the impact of poor oral health and highlighted innovative approaches to care delivery.
As a result, partner agencies and colleges began sharing the documentaries and video content to prompt conversations about the crisis and possible solutions.
The initiative also included three episodes of Kentucky Health, on adult orthodonture, geriatric oral health, and oral health disparities.
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Outreach included nine pieces of online-exclusive content, covering free oral health services, sealants, sugary drinks, and advice from dentists, including an article on the Drink Pyramid, a chart created by a Kentucky dentist to teach children to drink fewer sugar-sweetened beverages.
The percentage of Kentucky adults missing six or more teeth averaged 24 percent in 2014, and nearly half of Kentuckians age 65 and older reported either having partial or full tooth loss. The
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‘Holy Symmetricals!’ What’s Flying in the Studio?
Kids had a blast at the first Odd Squad “Be the Agent” Camp at Pine Mountain Settlement School in summer 2017. Here are more remarks we overheard from our newly minted agents as they worked the math out for their new gadgets: “I like gadget lab. I get to make big things.”
For the first time, drones were featured in a workshop at KET’s Summer Multimedia Professional Development Day in 2016. It was also the first time that two sessions— Drones and Minecraft EDU—were streamed live for viewing remotely.
“Are you going to be back next year?” “Ohhh, I love math!” “I got frustrated, but I tried again.”
Across the Nation with Adult Education The Enterprise Division, which produces and distributes videos, workbooks, and online materials that are used in adult education programs throughout the country, reached $500,000 in sales in the fiscal year, with the catalog reaching 19,000 customers.
The Hearts of Young Writers With the addition of a poetry category, the 2017 KET Young Writers Contest had a record 912 entries from 169 schools. The new poetry category alone had 546 total entries. The previous year had submissions from 516 students. KET education consultant Lynn Shaffer, a published poet herself, coordinated celebrity judges for the poetry contest: Diane Gilliam Fisher, Crystal Wilkinson, and Frank X Walker. Education consultant Amy Grant organized the entries and final judging. From seventh-grader Tyler Stevenson’s “The Girl with the Baking Soda”: My life was once a vial of vinegar, Contained, plain and simple. Or so it looked, until you got deeper, Noticing the many abnormalities. I was happy with my simple vial of vinegar, But as life goes, small specks of baking soda made me bubble, But yet I still kept it contained. Then SHE came along, The Girl With the Baking Soda.
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Conferences KET personnel presented and/or exhibited at over 40 conferences in 2016-17. K-12 SERVICES KET served as a lead sponsor for the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education Conference (KySTE) held in spring 2017 in Lexington. Education staff exhibited and presented sessions on KET resources for more than 600 educators. The K-12 education consultants hosted student and teacher visitors at the KET playground booth, where they shared iPad greenscreen® techniques and activities. KET also had a booth to share Online Campus courses along with the Kentucky Online Virtual Network as part of KDE’s digital learning team. Members of the Early Childhood team, Eamonn Fitzgerald and Amanda Wright, gave a presentation on PBS KIDS ScratchJr Family Creative Learning Workshops. As part of KySTE, KET hosted its third annual PBS LearningMedia Summit, reaching 130 educators. KET’s education consultants for K-12 exhibited at 27 conferences and district events. Major conferences included: • International Society for Technology in Education Conference • Future of Education Technology Conference • PBS Digital Innovator Summit ONLINE CAMPUS KET teachers John Krueger (German), Ben Patterson (Latin), and Carla Gover (Spanish) made presentations at the 2016 Kentucky World Language Association Conference. Other conferences attended by Online Campus team include: • • • •
Kentucky Association of School Counselors Kentucky Association of Gifted Education National Repository of Online Courses Symposium Digital Teaching and Learning Conference
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EARLY CHILDHOOD KET was a co-sponsor of the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood Institute Conference in 2017. KET shared Ready to Learn resources with an estimated 1,000 early childhood professionals. Other conferences included: • Forging Innovation in Rural Education (FIRE) Summit • 2016 Governor’s Office of Early Childhood Ready Kids Conference ADULT EDUCATION & ENTERPRISE The Adult Education team and Enterprise team members traveled to Orlando to attend the annual Coalition on Adult Basic Education Conference (COABE), presenting three sessions to a total of 150 adult educators. They also presented a session to 60 adult educators at the annual Kentucky Adult Education Program Directors’ Institute. Other conferences attended by Adult Education and Enterprise team members included: • Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children Conference • Technical College System of Georgia, Office of Adult Education Fall Conference • GED® Annual Meeting • South Carolina Adult Education Fall Training Conference • HiSET® National Conference in San Francisco (cosponsor) • National Training Institute for state directors of adult education
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Broadcast Productions AWARDS Regional Emmy Winner, Nostalgia Program The Hilltoppers The program profiles the rise of the Bowling Green quartet from college singers to national fame—culminating in 21 songs on the Top 40 charts in the 1950s. Premiered Oct. 24, 2016. Regional Emmy Nominee, Documentary, Cultural/Topical Kentucky Muse: Merle Travis: Guitar Man The film chronicles the life of the balladeer best known for hits like “Sixteen Tons,” “Nine Pound Hammer,” and “Dark as a Dungeon,” and as the developer of a unique thumb-picking guitar-playing style eventually dubbed “Travis pickin’.” Premiered Feb. 1, 2016.
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PRODUCTION PREMIERES Education Matters • College Financial Aid Call-In, Sept. 12, 2016 • Innovation and Technology, Dec. 13, 2016 • Help Wanted Kentucky, May 22, 2017 Arts Programming • Kentucky Muse: Kentucky by Design, Jan. 26, 2017 • 2017 Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, March 27, 2017 Kentucky Author Forum Presents: Great Conversations • • • • •
Sebastian Junger and Joe Klein, Oct. 17, 2016 Colson Whitehead and Isaac Fitzgerald, Jan. 16, 2017 P.J. O’Rourke and Robert Siegel, April 17, 2017 Joseph Stiglitz and Rana Rorooha, May 29, 2017 Thomas Friedman and Congressman John Yarmuth, June 12, 2017
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Leadership KET Education division staff members are involved with more than 28 organizations representing a wide range of education and public media work. Tonya Crum National Education Television Association (NETA) Education Executive Committee member, 2011-present; NETA Vice Chair, 2015-2016; Chair, 2017-2018 Affinity Group Coalition (for public media stations) member, 2016-present PBS Children’s Media & Education Leadership Council, 2017-2020 Kentucky Association for Adult and Continuing Education (KAACE) member, 2002-present; KAACE Board member, 2008-2012; Vice-President, 2010-2012 Collaborative Center for Literacy Development (CCLD) Advisory Committee, 2014-present Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers (AALPD) member, 2009-present Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) member, 2003-present Holly Ackerman First Five Lex Amy Bradshaw JCPS Commercial Media Magnet Advisory PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs Prichard Committee Student Voice Team Kathy Davis Kentucky Association School Librarians Board Teresa Day Kentucky Promise Zone Education Working Group Kentucky Department of Education’s Arts Advisory Committee Eamonn FitzGerald First Five Lex United Way of the Bluegrass Educational Impact Council EKU Family and Consumer Sciences Advisory Committee for Child and Family Studies Bluegrass Community and Technical College Interdisciplinary Early Childhood and Education Advisory Committee
Carla Gover Cornbread and Tortillas grantee (bilingual arts programs) Kentucky Center for the Arts (brings world culture programs to schools) Ron Griffin Lexington Habitat for Humanity - Board Member Consolidated Baptist District Laymen - Board Member Omega Psi Phi Fraternity - International History and Archives Committee Member YMCA Black Achievers Advisory Board Consultant - Past Chair Eastern Kentucky University International Alumni Board - Past President Lexington BUILD - Building a United Interfaith Lexington through Direct-action - Member Consolidated Baptist Church - Chairman of Deacon Board John Krueger Kentucky Association of Teachers of German - President Sister Cities of Louisville - Board Member Abby Lane Jeannie Lane Foundation - President (funds small central KY education efforts) Brian Spellman Interagency Subcommittee on Environmental Education Kentucky Department of Education CIITS Leadership Team EPSB Advisory Council for Internship Prichard Committee Student Voice Team Lynn Shaffer Prichard Committee Student Voice Team Sarah Wilkins Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) Kentucky Association for Adult and Continuing Education (KAACE) Bluegrass Reentry Council Amanda Wright First Five Lex Ready for K Alliance Community Action Council Policy Council - Chairman
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Personnel In September 2016, Mary Duncan retired as director of P-12 Instructional Resources, and Chuck Duncan retired as physics instructor. In July 2017, Jeff Gray retired as multimedia coordinator. DIVISION STAFF (as of October 2017) Senior Director of Education: Tonya Crum Administrative Assistant: Laura Olrich Director, Early Childhood Education: Amanda Wright Early Childhood Consultant: Eamonn Fitzgerald Early Childhood Consultant: Holly Ackerman Childcare Training Coordinator (contract): Susan Hines-Bricker Director, K-12 School Services: Brian Spellman Instructional Resource Services Specialist: Allison NeCamp Day Multimedia Education Coordinator: Cynthia Warner Instructional Technology Specialist: Rudy Rhoades Southeast Education Consultant: Amy Bradshaw South Central/West Education Consultant: Kathy Davis West Education Consultant: Amy Grant Northeast Education Consultant: Lynn Shaffer Online Campus Manager: Beth Gaunce Registrar: Linda Hofacker German Instructor: John Krueger Latin Instructor: Ben Patterson Spanish Instructor (contract): Carla Gover
Chinese Instructor (contract): Janna Chiang Arts & Humanities Instructor PT: Abby Lane Digital Learning Assistant (contract): Clay Rice Administrative Assistant: Deborah Harris Director, Educational Content Development: Teresa Day Instructional Resource Development Manager: Sara O’Keefe Professional Development/Special Projects Coordinator: Cynthia Barton Professional Development Content Producer (contract): Marianne Mosley Health Producer Outreach Manager: Laura Krueger Educational Content Specialist: Joyce West Director, Adult Education & Workforce Training: Sarah Wilkins Adult Education Specialist: Patricia Erwin Kentucky Adult Education Instructional Technology Consultant (contract): Kim Stoltzfus Director, Enterprise: Ron Griffin Customer Service Coordinator: Shanise Edwards Marketing Coordinator (contract): Kim Gooch Shipping & Receiving Clerk PT: Ed Clark Education Technology Education Technology Manager: Brian Vincent E-Learning Programmer: Austin Powell
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