Science teachers at all levels are in a position to deliver exciting and engaging learning opportunities for students. This includes anything from building things through engineering challenges, observing plants and animals in their natural habitat, performing laboratory investigations, to participating in a dissection while learning about body systems. Science is everywhere!Read More

Whitney Cox graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a bachelor’s of elementary education and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Education in middle grades science from EKU online. Whitney is a first-grade teacher at Corbin primary school. She recently shared her thoughts about her EKU Online experience.Read More

Taylor Newton is a student in Eastern Kentucky University’s Master of Arts in Education - School Librarian program. Taylor is a high school science teacher for the Madison County School District in Kentucky. She is completing her Master of Arts in Education online and recently shared her thoughts about her EKU Online experience.Read More

EKU instructor and long-time teacher, Richard Day believes in relationship building and taking an active part in his student’s educational experience. He goes above and beyond to ensure his online students have opportunities to interact and engage with both himself and the material. Day’s personal attention and dedication to helping students prepare to make their...Read More

Research shows that strong relationships between families and schools are foundational for student achievement. This is especially the case for students who have been historically underserved based on their race, ethnicity, and/or income. Despite this awareness, less than half of U.S. states require pre-service teachers to explore effective family and community engagement practices in their...Read More

Teacher leaders are among the most influential figures in enacting systemic change within schools. Their influence stems directly from the heart of the system--the classroom. Katzenmeyer and Moller (2009) and Lieberman and Miller (2004) view teacher leadership as a set of skills teachers develop that extend their influence beyond the classroom. This definition only focuses...Read More

Research shows that more than 4 % of Kentucky’s public-school population consists of English Language Learners (ELL) and that number increases every year. ELLs are considered a linguistically diverse population because they are exposed to a language other than English on a daily basis. However, their level of proficiency in that language might vary substantially....Read More

K-12 students improve academically and become more motivated when they are interested in and engaged with the learning material. Educational technologies can be great tools for creating these much-needed interactive learning environments because they encourage students’ active participation and provide easy-to-access information. Technology also enables individualized instruction and immediate and effective feedback while providing personalized...Read More

EKU instructor and long-time teacher, Jamie-Marie Miller, believes in relationship building and taking an active part in her student’s educational experience. She goes above and beyond to ensure her online students have opportunities to interact and engage with both herself and the material. Miller’s personal attention and dedication to helping students prepare to make their...Read More

It wasn’t that long ago that conservative governmental leaders in Kentucky were complaining that the state was preparing too many people to become teachers. This wrongheaded political argument was really a pretext for reducing state spending to justify tax cuts - mostly benefitting the wealthy. In the New York Times, Paul Krugman likened the efforts...Read More