When Kentucky Senate Bill 167 passed in 2024, mandating that all elementary schools incorporate cursive instruction into their curriculum, Waco Elementary School teachers worried about how they would work another lesson plan into their already busy agendas. Then, they learned about a ready-made resource collection available from KET – Cursive Connection. 

“It makes it easy to teach and deliver the product without having to do a lot of pre-planning. It’s all done for you,” says Erica Tucker, a Madison County student support service specialist. She created Waco’s cursive writing program in August. “I loved that Cursive Connection has PDFs of the cursive writing worksheets, so you can print those off ahead of time. That’s all the prep you have to do.”

(Cursive Connection) makes it easy to teach and deliver the product without having to do a lot of pre-planning. It’s all done for you.

Erica Tucker

Cursive Connection walks students through the cursive writing process, starting by teaching them how to situate their bodies, position their paper and hold their pencils. Then, they write the letter in the air, on paper and in a sentence. Each letter has a separate video, which teachers can access through YouTube or KET.org/Cursive.

“(Students) have access on their Chromebooks when we are in our small groups so they can rewind as needed,” says Kristie Johnson, a paraeducator who now teaches cursive writing. “They are able to do it on their own, at their own pace.”

Cursive Connection was the type of versatile, useful tool Tucker and Johnson had come to expect from KET.

“There really is something for everyone on KET, from preschool, pre-K, even up to high school,” Johnson says. “So (KET’s reach) is pretty broad.”

KET’s library of resources is like Google for teachers, Tucker says. Whenever teachers have a lesson, they can search KET and most likely find materials available.

“Their resources are trustworthy, and there is a vast selection of materials to pull from,” Tucker adds. “I can quickly type in any theme, any topic and find something that I know I can confidently put in front of the kids.”