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Perspective | A note of praise for our teachers
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to our state’s incredible educators! I want to take this opportunity to recognize all that teachers have experienced this past year and to thank you all for your unwavering dedication to your students throughout the difficulties that COVID-19 has presented. While…
In Greene County, the superintendent’s job is getting to ‘yes’
This week is national Teacher Appreciation Week, and National Teacher Day is celebrated today — May 4, 2021. To all of our teachers, we are thankful for you every day and never more so than this year.…
Blue Ridge Community College strives to elevate education: ‘Connecting people with their dream job’
From where you pull into the east entrance of Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, you can see a Head Start classroom, the innovation school with an early college and a career academy, the firefighter training center, the career center, and a fine arts center for community events.…
‘This is our community.’ With help from its historic Black university, Elizabeth City confronts the tragedy it tried to prevent
Nobody thought it would be Elizabeth City, this river city of 18,000 just north of the Albemarle Sound. The racial dynamics have long been tricky in the mostly Black city, the seat of government for mostly white Pasquotank County.…
The Editor’s Notes
This week is national Teacher Appreciation Week, and National Teacher Day is celebrated today — May 4, 2021. To all of our teachers, we are thankful for you every day and never more so than this year. We see you, we honor your leadership and public service, and we lift up the lasting impact you have on our students, our state, and our future.
Since the start of the pandemic, EdNC has visited teachers and faculty at 44 school districts and 29 community colleges. Your commitment to our students has made us smile big and cry hard. Lots of love for our teachers today… from the Superintendent, from the Governor, from TEACH NC.
In Greene County Schools, “Whenever a teacher has an idea, we don’t ever really shoot it down.” Patrick Miller says the superintendent’s job is to get to “yes.” Come take a look at the schools in this county with me. Along the way, messages of thanks for the educators who serve our students day in and day out, even during a pandemic, abound.
Then walk around the campus of Blue Ridge Community College with me and meet the faculty who “just kept going full throttle” throughout the pandemic.
From all of us at EdNC, thank you.
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