A Recent Surge in Cursive Handwriting Standards

The Kloiber Foundation Children and Technology in Action Should students be learning cursive handwriting? That’s a question Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt seeks to answer. In May of 2017, Senate Bill 1 was approved, and outlines a new schedule for...

Virtual Classrooms across the Bluegrass

The Kloiber Foundation Virtual Classrooms across the Bluegrass Recently an article about virtual learning discussed how Kentucky Schools are using technology to connect with homeschool students. It is estimated that over 20,000 students in Kentucky are homeschooled....

Using Technology in Early Childhood Education

The Kloiber Foundation Using Technology in Early Childhood Education Televisions, overhead projectors and calculators were the only technology used in my early childhood classrooms. Programs like Sesame Street or Reading Rainbow were classroom staples, but today’s...

Fall of 2015 Initiative

The Kloiber Foundation Fall of 2015 Initiative For Kloiber Foundation’s fall initiative of 2015, we have partnered with Lansdowne Elementary. With it’s 720 students hailing from 34 different countries and speaking around 22 different languages, this school offered the...

ISTE 2016 Conference Sponsorship

The Kloiber Foundation ISTE 2016 Conference Sponsorship The Kloiber foundation recently worked with Fayette County Public Schools and the Department of Educational and Administrative Technology to send ten teachers in the district to the  ISTE 2016 Technology...

Study on Sharing iPads

The Kloiber Foundation Study on Sharing iPads An article on EducationNews.org brings forth an interesting new study which shows that for the kindergartners monitored, sharing tablets with classmates resulted in better literacy scores than the kids with 1:1 or no...

FCPS Trying to Focus More on Gap Reduction

The Kloiber Foundation FCPS Trying to Focus More on Gap Reduction We here at the Kloiber Foundation were glad to find an article in the Hearald-Leaderabout Fayette County trying to allocate more resources in the upcoming budget specifically toward gap reduction. The...

Location for STEAM Academy Being Surveyed

The Kloiber Foundation Location for STEAM Academy Being Surveyed We’re excited here at Kloiber Foundation to hear that a new location for the STEAM Academy has been approved for survey.   The original plan was to buy a former grocery store close to UK to build the new...

Winter of 2014 Initiative

The Kloiber Foundation Winter of 2014 Initiative In the winter of 2014 Kloiber Foundation has continued supplying much needed aid to deserving local schools.  Yates Elementary is another Lexington school faced with many challenges.  The educators at Yates were looking...