Kentucky
KET (Kentucky Educational Televison) produced Art to Heart, a series of eight professional development modules that explore the importance of visual arts, music, dance, drama, and literature in the lives of infants, toddlers, and young children. KET’s informal training approach that concentrates on participants sharing experiences in small groups helps teachers overcome challenges and form lesson plans that will help integrate the arts into their daily curricula of science, mathematics, and reading.
In its Literacy Leadership project, KET collaborated with the state Department of Education to expand its CD-ROM and Internet-based professional development resources for literacy instruction, providing 50 sortable segments from interviews and other footage to show examples of effective literacy leadership in action. The project took cameras into nine Kentucky schools, where changes in literacy instruction resulted in measurable, dramatic improvements among all student demographic groups.