Mark your calendar: EdTalks 2019 will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 at The Burl, 375 Thompson Rd. in Lexington. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and snacks will be provided. This free community event features University of Kentucky College of Education faculty members giving brief talks on issues impacting education. This year’s theme is Building Partnerships with Sustainable Impacts.
Topics and speakers are:
Physical Activity Interventions to Enhance Learning: Lessons Learned in School Settings
Alicia Fedewa, School Psychology
Oh the Places You will Go: What Young Children Need in Order to Get There
Jennifer Grisham-Brown, Early Childhood
Literacy and Math Embedded Experience: A Clinical Site Partnership
Joni Meade, Elementary Education, and Cindy Jong, UK STEM Education, with Jennifer Hutchison (Picadome Elementary)
Leading from Within, Building from Without
Brett Criswell, STEM Education, with Katherine Bullock, The Living Arts & Science Center, and Joseph Caldwell, STEM graduate student
Partnership for Public Engagement & Its Evaluation in Higher Education
Eric Thomas Weber, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
Bringing Sex Ed Outside of School to Facilitate Sustainable Change
Kristen Mark, Kinesiology and Health Promotion
Exiting the Race to the Bottom: Finding Renewal through Partners in Our Own Community
John Nash, Educational Leadership Studies