Was Life in the Middle Ages Really a Fairy Tale?

Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. Over that period of time she has taught a variety of subjects and grade levels, but has always returned to middle...
Authentic and Project Based Learning

Authentic and Project Based Learning

The Collaborative for Teaching and Learning had its inception in 1994 as a public-private partnership aimed at equipping Kentucky elementary teachers to implement the primary program, a key provision of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. The primary program grouped...
Visiting Google Art Project, Take 2

Visiting Google Art Project, Take 2

Well, in the true spirit of the speed at which technology evolves my May blog post has become obsolete. In that post I visited Google Art Project, iteration 2012, extolled its virtues and shared a screencast to help folks navigate the site. Last month the site was...
The Art in Education

The Art in Education

A few weeks ago my husband and I had the great parental pleasure of seeing our now grown son honored by an organization that had been particularly important to him growing up. Seventeen summers ago, he had the opportunity to attend the Kentucky Governor’s School for...
Visiting Google Art Project

Visiting Google Art Project

In a recent blog post, I shared my impression of the Becoming Vogh show at the Denver Art Museum. Van Gogh became my teacher in absentia through this wonderfully curated show and I was fortunate to be in Denver when it was happening. Since it’s not always possible to...