PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
KHSSL is the managing organization of the SPEAK Alliance -- the Speech Professional Education Alliance of Kentucky. This group -- KHSSL, the Wilson Wyatt Debate League, the Kentucky District of the National Speech and Debate Association, and the Louisville (Kentucky) Diocese of the Catholic Forensic League -- sponsors an annual day of training known as the SPEAK Conference.
Additionally, KHSSL can offer Professional Development for schools / districts / individuals. See below.
Reach out to khssl@khssl.org for more information.
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Want to train your students to succeed in their Presentations of Learning?
Does your Portrait of a Learner include strong communications skills, grit,
the ability to listen and to self-advocate?
Then your students need direct instruction and practice in those skills.
This workshop helps you get started.
With culprits to blame from COVID to texting, many students have an even harder time
with public presentations now than they ever did before remote
learning took away some of their developmental practice being around other students.
This three-hour workshop raises awareness for instructors about the psychology
of communication apprehension and assists teachers in
redesigning existing units to include small victories in communication for students to
foster growth.
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This workshop, focused on competitive speech events, is deigned to develop student voice through competitive speech and debate in Kentucky and around the country. In this overview, teachers and coaches and administrators learn how contests work in Kentucky and how to start up competitive speech and debate teams. Instructors make concrete plans to get teams started as the second part of this workshop or how to jump up to the next level if already established. Three hours.