KEEP Academy

Kent Education Excellence Partnership (KEEP)

Earn a graduate credit by attending all 3 days of the conference and completing an assignment.  Cost $150.  See KEEP Graduate Credit for details.

Gifted Education will be a special feature of this year’s Academy.

By attending the KEEP Academy and choosing sessions that are specifically designed to address the Gifted Operating Standards’ competencies and taught by qualified educators, participants may earn up to 15 contact hours toward the coming year.   Documentation will be provided.

A Partnership of Kent State University and Local School Districts:

A Brief Overview of KEEP

Since 2010, the Kent Education Excellence Partnership (KEEP) has provided teachers with opportunities for holistic and reflective learning about classroom practice in concert with other committed educators from several public school districts in northeastern Ohio. This is done annually at the KEEP summer teachers’ academy and sustained throughout the year through teacher collaborative inquiry into classroom practice research. Over the 2017-2018 school year, the KEEP Academy Teacher Planning Committee met three times for 2-hour, after school meetings held at schools in one of the partnering school districts.  The 2018 KEEP Academy will be held for three days over the summer, and during this event the teachers’ learning will be continue through critical conversations, inquiry, and reflection.  After summer, teacher collaborative inquiry projects proposed during the Academy will be developed during the 2018-2019 school year. These Inquiry Into Practice projects will be based on a research protocol developed during the Academy. The teacher researchers then publicly share their findings in the spring during the KEEP Symposium of Excellent Teaching.

KEEP Co-directors:
Dr. Elizabeth “Lisa” Testa, etesta@kent.edu
Dr. Rosemary Gornik, rgornik@kent.edu

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