Shared Governance During Covid-19: Kentucky Perspectives

A PowerPoint presentation delivered by Lesia Lennex to the AAUP Shared Governance Conference on June 15, 2021

Integral or Vestigial? Kentucky P-12 Teacher Websites

In what way does a P-12 classroom teacher communicate at-large with their parents or students? There are many forms of communication. A more effective means of communication is either an access-key based Google Classroom or open-access teacher website linked to the school web site. An available, published teacher website allows any person with internet access to view teacher proffered information. This study sought to determine to what extent Kentucky P-12 teachers in its 171 school districts were 1) publishing teacher websites connected to the school web page, 2) including essential elements for clear communication, and 3) Americans with Disability Act (ADA, Section 508) compliant. Results of the study also included predominant teacher/school communication methods, teacher use of Google Apps for Education, and opinions regarding teacher shortages

Supporting Virtual Instruction in Rural Kentucky: Google Apps

Fall 2020 marked the first fully virtual semester for P-12 classrooms across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Teachers were faced with challenges such as the digital divide, device access, and materials access (Prichard Committee, 2020). Toward improving the success of our teacher education candidates to teach in virtual environments, a task force was formed to investigate the use of Google Classroom, a free learning management system (LMS) which allows third-party creation, distribution, and collection of common P-12 classroom artifacts (Clark, 2020), Google Apps for Education (GAFE), and Google Level I certification. Teachers (N=427) and school administrators (N=66) in 22 counties in Eastern Kentucky were invited to participate along with the entirety of a rural university’s undergraduate teacher education population (N=623) and Educator Preparation Providers (EPP) (N=63). P-12 teachers comprised the largest participation rate with 34% followed by school administrators at 26%. Significantly, 65% of teachers believed that Google certification Level I should be a required part of teacher initial certification and 59% of P-12 school administrators (mainly principals) were ‘somewhat’ more likely to hire teachers with a Google certification and 29% were “much more likely to hire.

Research Design for the use of Manipulatives and Peer Collaboration

Research design activities on the usage of manipulatives and peer collaboration with 3D designed round stackable pegs and craft sticks

3D ENGINEERING IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

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Introduction to 3D Engineering Through Scale Models

An article describing a week long summer camp presented by Lesia Lennex and Justin Elswick titled Introduction to 3D Engineering Through Scale Models published in Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1266-1268)

Constructed Learning in Elementary Mathematics

A poster presentation exhibited by Dorian Cook and Lesia Lennex at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference from March 29 to April 2, 2021

3D Engineering in the Elementary Schools

3D Engineering in the Elementary Schools, poster presented by Dorian Cook and Lesia Lennex at the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education in February of 2019

3D Engineering for Middle and High School

3D Modeling as a Teaching Tool for Engineering and Design, a paper delivered at the annual conference of the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education held at Lexington, Kentucky in February of 2017

Technology Use in Secondary Chemistry and Physics Classrooms in Kentucky

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