News How Elizabeth City-Pasquotank is trying to churn out effective teachers by Alex Granados | March 17, 2020 Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools is gearing up for an experiment with Elizabeth City State University to transform the way teachers...
News The importance of high expectations: Phil Javies of Sugar Creek Charter by Alex Granados | March 10, 2020 One Friday morning at Sugar Creek Charter School in Charlotte, a line of seventh graders filed out of the building...
Perspective Perspective | The more teachers learn, the better they teach. Their pay should be higher, too. by Bev Perdue | March 4, 2020 No one is more important to improve student learning than an effective teacher. And effective teachers need an innovative system...
Perspective Perspective | A teacher’s perspective on the impact of induction by Ashley Norris and Elizabeth Edwards | March 3, 2020 In 2018, Judge David Lee appointed WestEd to lead a comprehensive investigation into what it would take to guarantee the...
News Leandro | Effective educators: The key to student learning by Alex Granados | March 2, 2020 Clayton High School is a big school, and it’s getting bigger. When Principal Bennett Jones started at the school in...
Perspective Perspective | Can I really keep at this? What kept one great teacher in the classroom by Steven Kennedy | February 24, 2020 Opportunity Culture kept me from leaving the classroom. When our first child was born, my wife and I discussed our...
Featured From village teacher to bridge builder, Freebird McKinney takes on State Board role by Mebane Rash | February 18, 2020 On Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, the news broke that Freebird McKinney, the 2018 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of...
News How can NC recruit and retain effective teachers? by Alex Granados | February 13, 2020 Cherelle Sanders is a multi-classroom leader at Martin Millennium Academy in Tarboro. In her first year in that role, she...
Featured Thinking about our teachers, thinking about our ‘difference makers’ by Mebane Rash | February 11, 2020 “There are more than 100,000 teachers in North Carolina. We know there are effective teachers in all our communities across...
Perspective Perspective | Disrupting teacher workforce trends with the NC New Teacher Support Program by Patrick Conetta and Ashley Norris | January 29, 2020 There are many characteristics within a school community that influence student achievement, but no other characteristic has as much influence...
Featured El sueño de una inmigrante de ser maestra: Emily Francis del Condado de Cabarrus by Alex Granados | January 23, 2020 This article was translated by Carol Bono. Click here to read the original article in English. Emily Francis recuerda la...
Featured An immigrant’s dream to be a teacher: Emily Francis of Cabarrus County by Alex Granados | January 13, 2020 Haz clic aquí para leer este artículo en español. Emily Francis remembers first wanting to be a teacher when she...
