We’re on a mission here in Kentucky to understand and provide deeper learning experiences for our students.  One component that we know offers an expanded view and an enhancement of a deeper learning experience is the partnerships that our schools and classroom teachers have with the community.  

Today we’re flipping that script a little to talk about how the community partner of NKCES (Northern Kentucky's education coop) can be YOUR community partner as an education professional to provide resources, professional learning, networks, and to build capacity so that you can be better equipped to lean into these real deep learning experiences in your classrooms. 

6 guests join us in this episode to share their experience partnering with NKCES and the impact it has had on their teachers and students.   You'll hear from both general education and special education classroom teachers, building-level administrators, and district-level leaders across five different NKY districts:

• Heidi Neltner, Fort Thomas Independent School District
• Liz Vroegindewey, Covington Independent School District
• Becky Blevins, Kenton County School District
• Brian Tolle, Southgate Independent School District
• Bradie Bowen, Covington Independent School District
• Kim Thomson, Boone County Schools

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• NKCES website--Here you'll find access to all the departments, events, and PLNs that our guests mentioned today.

Today Abby Beausir from NKCES' Northern Kentucky Institute for Strategic Prevention is back as guest host!

Tune in to her interview with Deanna Bentley with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Nicole Frevola with the NorthKey Regional Prevention Center to discuss The Dinner Table Project!

Resources Related to this Episode:
KY Strengthening Families Framework - https://www.chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dph/dmch/ecdb/Pages/kysf.aspx

40 Developmental Assets - https://www.search-institute.org/our-research/development-assets/developmental-assets-framework/

Purple Star resource for military families: https://www.kypurplestar.org

Healthy Menu Ideas: https://kynep.ca.uky.edu https://www.planeatmove.com

KY Provider Directory: https://providerdirectory.dbhdid.ky.gov/ProviderDirectory.aspx

KY Dinner Table Project https://thedinnertableproject.org 
-email: kydinnertableproject@gmail.com for more information 

Today Abby Beausir from NKCES' Northern Kentucky Institute for Strategic Prevention is back as guest host!

Tune in to her interview with Lisa Anglin, project manager and community liaison with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, on this special episode for Alcohol Awareness Month.

Resources Related to this episode:
https://www.samhsa.gov/talk-they-hear-you 

https://www.stelizabeth.com/care/activating-hope/ 

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving 

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/ 

Abby Beausir is back as guest host!  You're invited to listen in as she talks with Mr. Keith Kline, Mental Health and First Aid Coordinator in Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio on behalf of Mental Health America.

"Relationships are key to everyone’s mental health.  [We’re] not just talking about administrators and teachers…but support staff and others as well. It doesn't matter who that individual is and what they do, but that a relationship is established and that a young person can lean into it when they need to, to get the help and support they need."

Resources Mentioned in this episode:
https://nkymhfa.org/
https://ohiomhfa.org
https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org 

My Guests today remain nameless.  They are students here in our Northern Kentucky public schools.  Over the past couple of months I talked with many students about their school experience, posing a question to find out--from their perspective--what makes for a positive relationship with their teachers, and therefore their learning.

Resources mentioned in today's podcast:
Visible Learning Research summary on Teacher-Student Relationships
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
Warm Demander Chart

Have you ever experienced one of those guided painting classes? Instructors model for us different techniques, demonstrate how to create specific images, provide lots of guided practice with feedback... and in the end, we have become Picasso!  (Or at least we feel that way!)  This is explicit instruction.

In this episode, Dr. Merissa Waddey, a special education consultant with the Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services in Northern Kentucky speaks on the what, why, how, and for whom of Explicit Instruction.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Anita Archer's Website
• Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes
• Self-paced modules on Explicit Instruction from the NKCES Professional Learning Online Website

Catch my Breath is a tier 1 vaping prevention program.  It is evidence-based and available for FREE to school districts online.  The Northern Kentucky Institute for Strategic Prevention is a wealth of knowledge about this program and will provide free training to get to know it.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
NKCES
Northern Kentucky Institute for Strategic Prevention website
Catch My Breath

As we know, a classroom built on procedures and routines is more likely to foster positive relationships, and experience productivity over an unstructured and unpredictable classroom.  Well-defined routines and procedures not only keep students safe, but helps maximize our instructional time. 

I invite you to hear from SEVEN incredible Northern Kentucky educators--ranging in service from Kindergarten to high school, and the arts--in the hope that you may walk away with a fresh idea or insight to kick off the next school year.

Be sure to check out some of the resources mentioned from these amazing teachers:
Ashley Rabe, Kindergarten teacher in the Kenton County School District
--photos of what Mrs. Rabe shares in this episode

Casey Kirk, Gifted and Talented Resource Specialist in the Williamstown Independent School District

Alyssa Vanderpool, Music teacher in the Fort Thomas Independent School District

Leah Jefferson, High School teacher at the Ignite Institute's Education pathway college
--Google slides to accompany what Mrs. Jefferson shares in this episode

Elizabeth Winkler, High School math teacher in the Bellevue Independent School District
--Links to some of the tools Mrs. Winkler mentions in this episode

Christy Daugherty, Reading and Math Interventionist in the Kenton County School District
--Example "get-ready" slide that Mrs. Daugherty shares in this episode

Abby Weyer, Kindergarten teacher in the Bellevue Independence School District