2013 CHEK Leadership Summit Schedule for February 2, 2013

2013 CHEK Leadership Summit Schedule is available! Take a peek at what you're missing if you're not registered to attend! There's still time to register for Saturday's event. Visit chek.org for details.

SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY 

Overruled: Government Invasion of Your Parental Rights #parentalrights

Cognitive Training Workshops for Parents Who Educate at Home

CHEK is passing on the following information for this non-CHEK Louisville event: Dear Parents, For the next four Fridays beginning February 1st, I will be conducting cognitive training workshops for parents who educate children at home. The workshops will all be held at Indiana Wesleyan University in Louisville (address below). From 9 - 11 am we will have the topic of the day and from 11 -12 pm there will be a question/answer/discussion session for those who want to stay. Light refreshments will be served. Topics are listed below. Feb. 1: Techniques for strengthening thinking and enhancing learning; How to use Mediated Learning Feb. 8: Techniques for improving visual and auditory perception; the Cognitive Functions Feb. 15: Techniques for improving reading; using Mediated Learning with content areas Feb. 22: Efficient study and how to increase independence in learners; the use of questioning in Mediated Learning At the conclusion of each workshop parents will have at least three (usually more) techniques they can immediately implement and also several resources for further study. Pay at the door: $25 per workshop $80 for all 4 workshops if paid on or before Feb. 1. Please feel free to email me privately with questions or to sign up. deenafbeard@yahoo.com Indiana Wesleyan University 1500 Alliant Ave. Louisville, KY Near SAM's off of Blankenbaker Deena Beard Cognitive Training Specialist

Save the Date! 2013 Family and Homeschool Conference June 14-15, 2013 Valley View Church - Louisville, KY

Vendors already filling up! If you'd like to be a vendor for the 2013 Conference, visit www.chek.org

Additional details Coming Soon!

Picture source credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmiehomeschoolmom/3968792480/

BASE Camp CANCELLED

Thank you for your past support of BASE Camp, the Kentucky Society of CPA's (KyCPA) Business & Accounting Summer Education camp. The program has been in operation for several years and we had planned to continue this year. However, the KyCPA Board of Directors and leadership have shifted the strategic focus for the coming year and have opted not to hold BASE Camp in 2013. Please accept my apologies for the short notice of this change and know that we will keep you informed of all future KyCPA student programs and activities.

If you have any questions, please contact me at vblair@kycpa.org. Again, we apologize for the short notice and appreciate your interest in BASE Camp and the accounting profession. We hope to find other ways we can work together in the very near future.

Of Interest to Minority Students

ACAP is an Accounting Career Awareness Program for minority students interested in exploring careers in accounting and business. Sponsored by the National Association of Black Accountants, the program will be held June 10-14, 2013 at the University of Louisville, Belknap Campus. More info: www.nabaglc.org/ACAP

Sincerely,

Vicki L. Blair

Accounting Careers & Education Director

Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants

1735 Alliant Avenue  |  Louisville, KY  40299

502-266-5272  |  800-292-1754  | Fax:  502-736-2770

More on the UN CRPD, Hoosiers Against Common Core & Leadership Summit

 

A British judge can throw out their treaty obligations and let a child predator go free, but American judges are bound by our treaty promises. More on the dangers of the CRC and CRPD treaties and why one sided-treaties bind the US from Parental Rights: 

http://parentalrights.org/index.asp?SEC={D7384BFE-3C05-409A-92DB-66852EB335C0}&Type=B_BASIC&persistdesign=none

Our Indiana neighbors fight Common Core!

 http://hoosiersagainstcommoncore.com/senator-scott-schneiders-nuvo-article-on-common-core/

 Todd Wilson of Family Man Ministries to be in Louisville, KY!

 http://christianhomeeducatorsofky.blogspot.com/2013/01/friday-february-1-todd-wilson.html

 And there is still time to sign up for Leadership Summit, Saturday, February 2, 2013!

 http://www.chek.org/Events?eventId=584382&EventViewMode=EventDetails

U of L Engineering Expo March 2, 2013

From the website:



Engineering Exposition (E-Expo) is a day-long event held every year at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. Everyone, from elementary school students to Adults, are welcome to attend the event showcasing the exciting opportunities at the University of Louisville as well as engaging younger students into the joys of engineering. There will be several competitions, hands-on activities, lab tours, and a special Keynote Speaker for guests to enjoy. E-Expo’s main goal is to unite students, industry, and the community by inspiring innovation and ingenuity in the minds of future generations. We hope that you will join us and be a part of this exciting day. E-Expo is open to the general public, but we do ask that you please register using the menu options above. For more information about E-Expo, scheduling, or registration, please look through our site tabs. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to CONTACT US.

Stamp Collecting Stamp Show #homeschoolers

(CHEK is passing this information on.  This is an independent event.)

Stamp collecting is a fun and effective way to learn, and the American Philatelic Society is the oldest and largest stamp collecting organization in the world.

From January 18-20, 2013 we will be holding our annual winter Stamp Show -- AmeriStamp Expo 2013 -- in Louisville! It will feature about 75 dealers, 300+ frames of exhibits, and participation of about 25 national societies.

The "inverted Jenny," one of the most valuable and treasured stamps in the world, will be among the frames of exhibits.

FREE Summer Camp for Your Students!

Please see this post for information on the cancellation of this program :
http://christianhomeeducatorsofky.blogspot.com/2013/01/base-camp-cancelled.html

CHEK is passing the following information along. This is for informational purposes only and not a CHEK sponsored event.

Friday, February 1, Todd Wilson The Homeschool Dad comes to Louisville!

TODD WILSON, author of Help! I'm Married to a Homeschooling Mom and The Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons, is a dad, writer, conference speaker, and former pastor. Todd's humor and gut-honest realness have made him a favorite speaker at homeschool conventions across the country and a guest on Focus on the Family.

2013 Kentucky Equine Youth Festival 3/27/2013

REGISTRATION HERE:
  http://cms.education.ky.gov/formserv/?id=2013_Kentucky_Equine_Youth_Festival_Registration

ART CONTEST FLYER:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=1p9O4zT56Vr5OtEsq-eUQDr0xX2yOAeNGH-tqUiyz-i31wgdkd1j7JSWYQnQA

ESSAY CONTEST FLYER:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=1agRKcXEQAmG8nWocguC4CzQApfppsxuCDih9Dhz7PD4r_QusukqblPe7WLKT

For additional information, please do not contact CHEK.

For more information contact:

Christians At The Capitol, February 19, 2013

God and Country Ministry is a regular at the CHEK Family & Homeschool Conference each year in Louisville.  Brother Lee Watts, Chaplain to the Kentucky State Government would like to encourage all Christians to participate in this event. *This is not a homeschool event, per se but homeschooling is one of the topics to be discussed.

#Homeschooling and the Common Core

Common Core will be one of the topics addressed at the 2013 CHEK Leadership Summit.  Please consider attending.  More information and registration page found at CHEK.org.

 "Connecting an individual‘s education achievement on a standardized test to a nation‘s economic future is not empirically or logically acceptable and using that mythical connection for large-scale policymaking is civically reckless. When education leaders and those who prepare them parrot that argument they actually provide credence to that anti-intellectual myth. When school administrators implement programs and policies built on those faulty arguments, they commit education malpractice." Christopher Tienken on Common Core.

What is Common Core? "In 2010, the National Governors Association published their “Common Core State Standards” (CCSS). These were meant as voluntary math and English guidelines which individual states could adopt." http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2012/201212170.asp

One Month Left until CHEK Leadership Summit! #homeschool

"Choose ye ... whom you will serve"

February 2nd, 2013 CHEK will host the 2013 Leadership Summit in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.  Now is the time to strengthen our resolve as home educators!

REGISTER TODAY

Be in the Word in 2013! Happy New Year from CHEK!

Everyone says it, "I don't read my Bible enough."  Studies prove it.  Make this year different. Resolve to be in the WORD more!

Kentucky blogger, Shanna Clark at Learning at His Feet has issued a challenge!  Join her and around 100 (so far) of her friends to learn 100 Bible Verses in 2013!  Click on the button below to read her post and get started!

If you join Shanna and her friends, we'd love to hear how it goes!  Keep in touch and Happy 2013!


"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end" . Jeremiah 29:11, KJV