KEEP Academy
The Kent Education Excellence Partnership (KEEP) endeavors to provide a forum for teachers to grow professionally.
2024 KEEP Academy: Reimagined
Online Opportunities (these are free to teachers from member districts):
- Online Academy
- Available throughout the month of June, similar format to prior years.
- Some content will be available from prior years, but much of it will be completely new.
- Book Study 1: Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
- Book: Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Grades K-12 by Peter Liljedahl (you will purchase your own copy)
- Book Study Leader: Tracy George (Springfield)
- Dates (tentative): June 11 - chapters 1-3, June 18- chapters 4-6, June 25- chapters 7-9 & next steps, 9am-10am
- Book Study 2: Shifting the Balance in the Upper Elementary Classroom (Gifted Focus)
- Book: Shifting the Balance (3-5): 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom by Katie Egan Cunningham and Kari Yates (you will purchase your own copy)
- Book Study Leaders: Jennifer Skala and Julie Dudones (Cuyahoga Falls)
- Dates (tentative): June 17th, July 8th, July 22nd, 1:00-2:30pm
- All book study meetings will be synchronous, but will be held virtually
Academy Highlights
- New features in technology and wellness, and innovative additions in gifted!
- Gifted HQPD hours available through the online academy.
- CEUs and graduate credit options available.
- Open to all educators.
- All online options are free to member districts, $50 for non-members.
Academy Information
Questions? Contact pd@kent.edu.
KEEP is a Partnership between ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ and Local School Districts
- Barberton City Schools (generously supported by the )
- Crestwood Local Schools
- Cuyahoga Falls City Schools
- Field Local Schools
- Kent City Schools
- Nordonia Hills City Schools
- Norton City Schools
- Ravenna City Schools
- Springfield Local Schools
- Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools
- Streetsboro City Schools
- Tallmadge City Schools
ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ The Kent Education Excellence Partnership (KEEP)
Since its inception in 2010, The Kent Education Excellence Partnership, or KEEP, endeavors to provide a forum for teachers to grow professionally. This commitment is enacted in several ways: supporting teaching excellence by facilitating critical conversations, inquiry into, and reflection upon practice; supporting teacher leadership by providing ongoing professional development to teacher leaders who then share lessons and resources with other educators; and supporting P-16 collaboration by convening school staff within multiple districts, including university faculty in support of teaching excellence and leadership. KEEP Academy accomplishes this goal by co-planning an annual conference administrated by the Office of Professional Development and Outreach in ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™s College of Education, Health, and Human Service and hosted by one of our member school districts.
KEEP Co-Directors:
Dr. Lisa Testa, etesta@kent.edu
Dr. Mandy Cenker, mcenker@kent.edu