State Superintendent Discusses Increasing Teacher Pay in Her Latest Blog Post
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In her latest blog post, State
Superintendent June Atkinson highlights the history to create a merit pay
system for educators and her proposed plan to increase teacher pay. You can
read her current blog post, as well as previous posts, on the State
Superintendent’s website.
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Report on Education Legislation from 2015 Session on the Web
The "Report on Education
Legislation from the 2015 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly” is
now available on the Legislative Updates website. The report includes summaries
of all legislation affecting public education: individual bills, special
provisions of the budget and the “money report.” It also includes copies of
individually passed bills and relevant portions of the budget. This report does
not replace the "Public School Laws of North Carolina" publication.
Every Student Succeeds Act Reauthorizes Elementary and
Secondary Education Act
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reauthorizes the 50-year old Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
the national education law that promotes equal educational opportunities for
all students. To learn more about the ESSA and its programs, please visit the
Federal Program Monitoring and Support website.
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EC Website Updates
The
Exceptional Children website was recently updated with material from the EC
Directors webinar, a new section devoted to recruiting and retaining EC
educators and information about the division’s upcoming institute.
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A question and answer document as
well as handouts for the Feb. 2 EC Directors webinar are now available on the under
Conferences, PD & Webinars. You also can find a schedule of upcoming
webinars and material for past online meetings.
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The Exceptional Children March Institute is scheduled for
March 7-9 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro. If you would like to
attend the institute, or any of the pre-sessions, visit Conferences, PD &
Webinar. There will be no onsite registration. You must pre-register to attend
any part of the institute.
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If you are an educator looking for information about working
as an Exceptional Children teacher in North Carolina, or an administrator
looking for ways to attract and retain your Exceptional Children staff, check
out the new Recruitment and Retention section on the Exceptional Children
website. Here you will find strategies for recruiting and retaining staff as
well as results from research about why educators leave EC teaching. In
addition, Exceptional Children licensure information also is available.
NC Governor’s School Accepting Applications for Staff on East and West
Campuses
The North Carolina Governor's School
is accepting applications for staff for Governor's School East, at Meredith
College in Raleigh, and Governor's School West, at Salem College in
Winston-Salem. Most positions run from early June through late July. Available jobs
and the employment application are available on the Governor’s School website.
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Spring
Workshops Information Added to NC Council on Holocaust Website
The NC Council on the Holocaust has
added several educator/administrator workshops for spring 2016. The workshops
are offered across the state at no charge, and are open to all North Carolina
middle and high school teachers and administrators. In addition, the Council
provides participants selections from “The Holocaust: A North Carolina
Teacher's Resource Guide,” a collection of other Holocaust teaching materials
and a certificate of attendance for renewal credit. The workshops, and contact
and registration information for each workshop, are available on the NC Council
on the Holocaust website.
Celebrate
NC Schools Highlights Stories from the “READY” Initiative
From 2010 through 2015, state and local
school leaders used $400 million in federal Race to the Top grant funds to
strengthen teaching and learning in North Carolina. A new section on Celebrate
NC Schools features a series of short stories highlighting how these grant
funds were used in a multi-strategy approach, branded the "READY"
initiative, to transform education in the classroom, district and state.
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