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Teachers want better preparation in reading instruction. In the UNC System, it’s getting personal
Laura Bilbro-Berry stepped into her first classroom as a teacher in 1992. She realized both the weight and the depth of her responsibility almost immediately.…
Starting small and growing: How a Lillington educator and church use gardens for community support
Shannon Brooks, an exceptional children’s (EC) educator at Lillington-Shawtown Elementary was walking through a parking lot in April and noticed a truck pulling in to turn around.…
Student Perspective | Dear COVID
Dear COVID,why are you still here? why are you present?why can’t you disappear? why do you take the lives of others?why…
Student Perspective | What was school like for me?
How has school been for me?I honestly don’t think there’s a possibilityFor me to fully explainWhat has been going on recently.…
The Editor’s Notes
In Transylvania County, the first day of school was on Monday. That night, a contentious school board meeting kept educators out until late in the night. Already weary, they returned for day two, only to be confronted with unprecedented rain and flooding from a tropical storm turned depression. And yet, in Macon and then Jackson and then back in Transylvania, educators did all the things — from diverting flooding from school doors, to stopping the leaks in old school buildings, to teaching which is what they actually signed up to do, to making sure all the children on all the buses got home safely. I watched principals offer to go get water out of people’s homes after the school day finally ended. The spirit and commitment of our workforce of educators is unparalleled and I am thankful.
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On "just in time review" and the benefits of acceleration versus remediation
Zearn is used in classrooms around NC for math instruction. CEO Shalinee Sharma is iterating in real time the approach to meet the needs of students learning math during the pandemic.... Read the rest
