Thanks to
those of you who participated Friday in the webinar regarding principal and
assistant principal salaries and teacher bonus pilots (AP/IB, third grade
reading, and CTE credentials). Materials used in this webinar are posted on the
superintendents’ webpage as a reference.
The State
Board of Education this week will consider action on policies regarding the
teacher bonus pilots and will be finalizing its budget request for the 2017-19
biennium. Also, please note that the State
of the Teaching
Profession report
will be presented on Wednesday, detailing the number and percentage of teachers
who leave the classroom for various reasons.
Local numbers are included in this report alongside statewide trends, so you
may want to familiarize yourself with the report in
case you receive news media calls.
One key
change this year: the report format and reporting categories have changed to
make the report more useful and to better isolate teachers who leave the
profession versus those who move to other districts or education-related roles.
Because of those changes, it is not advisable to compare this year’s report
with prior years’.
As
we near Election Day, I think it is important for educators to serve as positive
role models to students and make sure that they make time to cast their ballot
in the 2016 election.
When
you go to the polls, please consider wearing your “I Voted” sticker to school
that day or the day after so that your students see that small reminder that
you have exercised your civic responsibility and privilege. This is a good year
to demonstrate positive involvement in our democracy.
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 State Board Meets This Week
State Board of Education members will hold their
November meeting this Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 2-3, in the 7th Floor Board Room, Education
Building, Raleigh.
Action items include 2017-19 Biennial Expansion
Budget requests, Title V Abstinence Grants, and a number of consent agenda
items including Bonuses for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate
Pilot Program, Industry Certifications and Credentials Teacher Bonuses, Third
Grade Teacher Reading Performance Pilot, LEA-Wide Weather-Related Calendar
Waiver requests, Career and Technical Education Essential Standards, and the
Annual Charter Schools Performance Framework Summary.
Discussion items include Healthy Active Children
Policy revisions, North Carolina Math I Extended Content Standards, updates to
the policy Delineating Use of State-Designated Assessments for the North
Carolina Teacher Evaluation Process, NCDPI’s Strategic Plan and Information
Technology Plan for 2017-19, and the State of the Teaching Profession annual
report.
The agendas for this meeting and
executive summaries are available online (under Meetings tab). The State Board’s committee meetings and
full Board meeting are audio streamed for those who can’t attend.
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2016 Report on Education Legislation
Available
NCDPI’s 2016
Report on Education Legislation is now complete and ready for you to review and
share. Its 341 pages chronicles and summarizes all of the 2016 Session
Laws (including relevant budget provisions) that relate to K-12 public
education.
If you
prefer printed copies, please visit the NCDPI Publications Sales website.
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Digital Learning Progress Rubric for Schools
Available
The Friday Institute, in partnership with NCDPI’s
Digital Teaching and Learning Division, has developed a pilot Digital Learning Progress Rubric for Schools that lays out a detailed, yet digestible,
roadmap for schools to transition to high quality digital learning environments.
The school-level rubric parallels the 2015
district-level rubric (available on the same webpage). The school rubric may be
used to inform district strategic planning, school improvement planning, and/or
guide informal monthly teacher-team meetings. It also contains a glossary of
over 50 digital learning-related terms/ideas.
Please note that the school-level rubric is a
pilot resource and is currently being field-tested. As your schools begin to
use this resource, please share your
feedback at any time throughout the 2016-17 school year with Malinda
Faber, research associate at the Friday Institute.
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 Professional Development Opportunities
Next
Professional Development for School Leaders Scheduled
NCDPI
District and School Transformation, in partnership with the NCSU Northeast
Leadership Academy, will host the next installment in its Professional
Development for School Leaders 2016-17 Series: The Connected Educator on Nov.
17.
The Connected
Educator will feature school site visits with elementary, middle and
high schools experiencing growth and success. Five
elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools located in
western, central and eastern North Carolina will share and learn with
participants. Participants will engage in dialogue with practicing principals,
teachers and students through small group meetings, classroom visits and school
tours.
Schools will
spotlight how they identified key areas for growth, created a plan for
improvement, and evaluated actions for the impact on student learning. Please
click this link for a
description of each school’s site visit focus.
Registration is available online. For more information, contact Julie
Malcolm (919.835.6130)
or Amelia
McLeod (919.835.6101)
with NCDPI’s District and School Transformation Division.
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School Improvement Conference for Student Success
Do
you struggle with creating action steps and tasks to improve student outcomes
in your school or district? Then you will want to attend the School Improvement Conference for Student
Success where you will join with colleagues from across the state to learn
evidence-based practices and strategies that cover all content areas and
student success indicators found in NCStar.
School
improvement teams and district support and improvement teams are the target
audience for this conference, which takes place Dec. 7-8, from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., at the North Raleigh Hilton.
There is no registration fee. Hotel lodging is available
at a special rate of $129/night.
For
more information, please contact Alessandro Montanari,
Robert Sox
or Angela Jackson
with NCDPI’s Educator Effectiveness Division.
 Teachers
of Critical Languages Program
The
Teachers of Critical Languages
Program (TCLP) is a fully-funded initiative sponsored by the
State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to help U.S. K-12
schools launch new or expand existing Arabic or Chinese language programs.
TCLP
makes it easy for U.S. schools to grow their critical language programs by
placing fully funded teachers from Egypt, Morocco, or China to teach Arabic or
Chinese as a foreign language for an academic year. By sharing their languages
and cultures, the teachers bring global competencies to their host schools and
communities.
To
learn more about hosting a teacher at your school and to speak with host school
alumni about their experiences with TCLP, administrators are encouraged to
attend a live informational webchat at 4
p.m. on one of the following dates:
* Wednesday, Nov. 9
* Wednesday, Nov. 16
* Thursday, Dec. 8
* Wednesday, Jan. 4
To
register for a webinar or to apply to TCLP, please click HERE.
The application deadline for TCLP host schools is Monday, Jan. 23.
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Cleveland
County Schools’ Administrator is CTE Administrator
of the Year
Congratulations
to Cleveland County Schools’ Career and Technical Education Director Tony
Fogleman for being selected as the 2016-17 NC CTE Administrator of the Year.
Fogleman
oversees Cleveland County Schools’ CTE program where 7,500 students are
enrolled in 15 program areas. For the 2015-16 school year, Cleveland County
Schools ranked in the top ten school districts statewide where the percentage
of students enrolled in CTE courses earned industry-recognized credentials.
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