The Kentucky Schooling Skilled Requirements Board (EPSB) accepted two Possibility 9 applications at its Oct. 10 assembly.
Pursuant to 16 KAR 9:110E, Possibility 9 is a brand new different path to certification created in the course of the 2022 common session of the Kentucky Basic Meeting that enables an individual to finish a bachelor’s diploma and preliminary trainer certification in a three-year interval whereas working in a non-teaching place in a college district. The route requires a district or group of districts to associate with a university or college to develop a program and obtain EPSB approval.
Each Whitley County and Lincoln County Faculties have individually partnered with the College of the Cumberlands to develop an Possibility 9 program. Beneath this system, the districts should:
Embody a paid residency or paraprofessional part that employs the particular person throughout the collaborating district to achieve work expertise;
Use skilled academics employed by the district to supply teaching and mentorship;
Define parameters of acceptance; and
Be designed to satisfy the wants of the collaborating district and will embody an emphasis on creating a trainer pipeline for the district’s college students, bettering the variety of underrepresented populations among the many district’s workforce, or specializing in growing the variety of academics with certification areas which are in excessive demand.
Moreover, the partnering district will help the candidate in assembly the sphere expertise hours in the course of the first two years of employment. Within the third yr of employment, the candidate is required to be positioned in a setting that’s in keeping with the certification sought.
Each Lincoln County and Whitley County’s program proposals are comparable in nature apart from their parameters for acceptance. In Lincoln County, solely tutorial assistants who present promise as classroom academics and are chosen by the district might apply. In Whitley County, solely those that full the Educating and Studying pathway at Whitley County Excessive Faculty with a suggestion from the trainer and the principal might apply.
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Although this route requires a candidate to be employed in a labeled place whereas finishing coursework, it doesn’t permit the candidate to function a trainer whereas enrolled within the certification route. The Possibility 9 different route solely supplies for preliminary certification as soon as the candidate completes their bachelor’s diploma and certification assessments.
In accordance with statute, preliminary program approval by EPSB solely lasts for 3 years. After that point, this system suppliers might apply for persevering with approval and supply proof of program high quality.
All different routes to certification applications will need to have prior approval from EPSB earlier than they will supply that route. There are at present 9 different routes to certification accepted by EPSB.
In different enterprise, the board:
Discovered concerning the Praxis Efficiency Evaluation for Lecturers (PPAT) from Jason E. Dietrich, consumer relations director for Instructional Testing Companies. The PPAT evaluation consists of 4 duties that happen in the course of the trainer candidate’s scientific expertise and concentrate on assessing a scholar trainer’s instruction and the decision-making course of;
Accepted prompt substitute language for 16 KAR 9:100, relating to the Possibility 7 different path to certification, and 16 KAR 9:110, relating to Possibility 9 expedited path to certification;
Accepted 4 choice 1 different path to certification requests. Beneath choice 1, EPSB might approve candidates with distinctive, non-teaching work expertise in an instructional content material space they at present would not have a certification in;
Accepted waiver requests for eligibility necessities;
Moved into closed periods to conduct character and health evaluations; and
Accepted consent agenda gadgets:
Kentucky Christian College’s preliminary undergraduate program for well being schooling and bodily education schemes;
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Mark Stoops owns a five-game winning streak in the Governor’s Cup series. The Wildcats have won three games in a row at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium and have not lost to Louisville at Kroger Field since 2017 when Bobby Petrino was holding the call sheet and and Lamar Jackson was playing quarterback. The Wildcats have also covered a lot of spreads in this series.
Stoops is 7-2-1 against-the-spread (ATS) in this series with with covers as a double-digit dog in 2014 and 2016. Kentucky has beaten Louisville outright as a dog three times since 2016 and has covered five straight in this series. Those are not the only trends going in Kentucky’s direction heading into this Week 14 contest.
Louisville is 0-4-1 ATS as a road favorite under Jeff Brohm with outright losses to Pittsburgh and Stanford. Kentucky is 5-0-1 ATS as a dog in its last six outing including four games this season. Kentucky covered numbers as a double-digit dog against Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas this season.
The visitor is 11-3-1 ATS (5-10 outright) in the last 14 meetings of this series with 10 outright wins but Kentucky has won the last two meetings at Kroger Field covering each times as a three-point favorite. In 2019, Kentucky ran away for a 45-13 victory and cruised to a 26-13 victory in 2022.
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Kentucky has consistently overachieved pregame expectations in this series. The Wildcats are currently a 3.5-point dog with a total of 48.5. That’s a projected final score of 26-22.5. Will UK exceed expectations again against Louisville? A win would equal four outright upsets for the Big Blue in the last eight meetings of the series.
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