Following are this week’s information items from across NCDPI’s departments and divisions of
interest to local public school superintendents.
Recurring Low-Performing Schools Reform
Model
Friday you received a memo regarding the optional application
process for the recurring low-performing schools reform model with timelines
and website information. Please remember that all information can be found online
by clicking on the Reform Model button on the left.
District and School Transformation staff are looking forward to
reading and submitting these applications on your behalf for State Board
approval. Please contact District and School Transformation Director Nancy Barbour
if you have any questions.
2017
NC Regional Teachers of the Year Announced
Congratulations to the following nine teachers
who were recently selected as the state’s regional Teachers of the Year for
their dedication, innovation and ability to inspire students and
will now compete for the title of 2017 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina
Teacher of the Year:
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Northeast: Amy Parker, Hertford Grammar
(Perquimans County Schools);
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Southeast: Lisa Godwin, Dixon Elementary
(Onslow County Schools);
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North Central: Miles MacLeod, Heritage High (Wake
County Schools);
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Sandhills: Juandalynn Ray, Sampson Middle
(Clinton City Schools);
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Piedmont-Triad: Adam Reeder, Asheboro High
(Asheboro City Schools);
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Southwest: Anthony Johnson, Jr., Isenberg
Elementary (Rowan-Salisbury Schools);
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Northwest: Carrie Franklin, Glenwood
Elementary (McDowell County Schools);
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Western: Leslie Schoof, Madison Early
College High (Madison County Schools); and
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Charter Schools: Deborah Brown, Research
Triangle High (Research Triangle Park).
The 2017 North Carolina Teacher of the Year will
be announced April 6 at an awards
ceremony in Cary.
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Revised
Mathematics Standards Update
Last week your
Curriculum and Instruction leaders received the information below. Please help
us with the revision process by assembling teams (if you haven’t already) in
your district to review and suggest revisions of the first draft of the K-8
Math Standards. We hope to receive your district's feedback by Feb. 10.
K-8 Math
Standards and Opportunity to Provide Feedback
Based on NC State Board of Education
policy, standards are to be reviewed every five years. For the K-8 mathematics
standards, groups of teachers, district leaders, and university faculty were
brought together from various regions of the state to review all the
stakeholder feedback provided on current practice and content standards in the NC Standard Course of Study for Mathematics.
This data review committee made
recommendations for revision to the current standards. Following that, a subset
of the review team served as the revision/writing team for the current draft of
revised mathematics standards. Both the data review committee and the
revision/writing teams paid close attention to the feedback provided by various
surveys of educators, parents, community members, the Academic Standards Review
Commission as well as focus groups comprised of North Carolina teachers and
district leaders.
LEAs are asked to further review the
standards and complete an online survey by Friday, Feb. 10. We ask that one survey be completed per
LEA. Remember when providing feedback on this draft of the standards:
* Educational standards
define the minimum knowledge and skills that all students in North Carolina
should demonstrate by the end of the school year.
* Standards should be concise,
written descriptions of what students are expected to know and be able to do by
the end of each grade level.
* Standards should not
specifically support any curriculum or assessment method.
* Expectations
expressed in a grade level are not repeated in other grade levels.
* Further explanation
of standards will be found in the instructional support documents (e.g,
Unpacking Documents).
Below are
links to the survey questions as well as the first drafts of K-5 and 6-8
revisions of math standards.
Questions regarding the mathematics standards revision process
should be directed to NCDPI K-12 Mathematics Section Chief Jen Curtis.
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NCVPS
NC Math 1 Intervention Course Webinar
Do you have students who are low performing or
under achieving in Math 1? NCVPS has partnered with NCDPI to create a new NC
Math 1 intervention course to help students in need. This course is designed
for students who lack prior success in a traditional math setting, are learning
English as a second language, or who have an IEP or 504.
Please join us in one of our NC Math 1
Information Session webinars. Participants will be given a detailed overview of
why, how and the benefits of enrolling in the program, which is part of a
multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). Preliminary data from the pilot will be
shared along with implementation for the upcoming school year.
Webinar dates are as follows. Click on the date
for details and registration.
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Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2 – 3 p.m.
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Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7 – 8 p.m.
- Friday, Feb. 24,
10 – 11 a.m.
Learn more about the NCVPS NC Math 1 Intervention
course by clicking here.
Questions may be directed to NCVPS Director of Outreach and Support Mia
Murphy.
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Recruitment and Retention of Special Educators
Summit
The
Exceptional Children Division is pleased to announce the third Recruitment and
Retention of Special Educators Summit. The Summit will be held at Elon
University on Friday, Feb. 24, from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. District Exceptional
Children and Human Resources directors (or designees) should work together to
identify a school principal to attend with them as a team.
Regional
groups will identify key issues related to recruitment and retention of special
educators faced by LEAs, DPI and Institutions of Higher Education. Innovative
strategies to address these issues will be shared. Working in regional teams,
an action plan specific to each LEA’s needs will be developed and reviewed to
incorporate the strategies learned during the summit. Each LEA will leave
equipped with an implementation plan, which will help with both retention and
recruitment of special and general educators.
Please
register your team online by Feb. 8. Upon registration, attendees
will be provided with a campus map and agenda. Breakfast and lunch are
included.
If
you have any questions, please contact Exceptional Children Program Improvement
and Professional Development Consultant Carol Moffitt or 919.807.3997.
Spring 2017 Principal READY
Dates Set
NCDPI’s Educator Effectiveness staff
have set the spring dates for the annual Principal Ready sessions to begin in
early February and extend through April.
This session will address Equitable
Distribution of Effective Teachers, including current statewide data
trends, and explore strategies to assist school leaders to support
instructional improvement at their individual schools.
Service Support team members
will facilitate area-specific breakout sessions based on regional principal
feedback and data collected by service teams. These sessions will generally
address some combination of the following:
- improving/supporting teacher evaluation;
- recruiting, supporting, and retaining
teachers;
- improving teacher professional development;
and
- supporting teacher leadership.
Each region across the state
will host a session planned by the division’s statewide Service Support Teams
in collaboration with principals from each zone. Participants are free to choose the date that best fits his/her
schedule. You do not have to attend the session in your home region if another
date is more appropriate.
Please
use this link to register
for the spring 2017 PREADY.
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Registered
for CCSA? Check!
The 2017 Collaborative Conference for Student
Achievement is open to educators, administrators and education stakeholders. Register before Feb. 1 and receive a reduced registration fee of $175. Registration
after Feb. 1 is $200.
If you have any questions about the CCSA
conference, please call the CCSA hotline at 919.835.6133 or email staff.
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