Teacher Working Conditions Survey at 49% completion – help us get to 100%   

The North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey opened March 1 and runs through March 31. We are 42 percent of the way through March and the current completion rate is 49 percent.

Visit www.ncteachingconditions.org to access the survey and materials. Archived instructional webinars for school-based coordinators and principals are at https://ncteachingconditions.org/resources.

Our goal is to hear from every school-based educator in the state. Please visit https://ncteachingconditions.org/resources for a 2016 vs. 2018 comparison table, 2018 survey questions, and/or details about scoring changes. Any schools experiencing difficulties can contact the Regional Education Facilitator for their region or DPI’s survey coordinator, cynthia.martin@dpi.nc.gov. 

Upcoming myFutureNC listening sessions

March 7 in Caldwell Co. and March 22 in Wake Co.

myFutureNC, a statewide education commission focusing on educational attainment for all North Carolinians, is holding a series of eight listening sessions throughout the state designed to hear from communities about what they perceive as their region’s economic strengths and identify the education opportunities that are most needed to capitalize on those strengths.

The next two sessions are listed below:

Region 3 – March 22

NC Rural Center (4021 Carya Drive, Raleigh)

Local Focus: The HBCU perspective: Donald Barringer, NCCU

Northeast – April 19

Museum of the Albemarle (501 South Water Street, Elizabeth City)

Local Focus: The principals’ perspective: Guests TBD — potentials include Michelle White (Region 1 Principal of the Year; D. F. Walker Elementary, Edenton-Chowan County); Steve Basnight (J P Knapp Early College, Currituck County); Steve Lassiter (Assistant Superintendent, Pasquotank County)

Digital Learning survey opens April 2

On April 2, DPI and The Friday Institute will open the Digital-Age Learning Progress Rubric survey for LEA representatives to complete. As it was in spring 2015, the survey data will be used at the state level to focus statewide professional development offerings, make cooperative purchasing decisions, and advocate for policy and funding as part of the NC Digital Learning Plan.  

This survey, which districts should complete by June 30, will be hosted by the same system that hosts the NC Digital Learning and Media Inventory (NC DLMI). LEA users in the NC DLMI will have access to complete the survey for their districts. The only data that will be shared publicly are district- or charter-level scores for each of the five main areas: Leadership; Technology Infrastructure & Devices; Curriculum & Instruction; Professional Learning; and Data & Assessment.   
 
More information will be shared through the tech director’s listserv and in future superintendent updates. Questions about the Digital-Age Learning Rubric should go to Verna Lalbeharie at DPI or Jeni Corn at NCSU.

Submit student artwork!

State Superintendent’s Arts Initiative

State State Superintendent Mark Johnson is sponsoring a statewide arts initiative. The Superintendent’s Arts Initiative is an opportunity to recognize student artists and to encourage participation in all of the arts throughout the state, as well as in each school district and charter school. Districts may submit one work each.

The initiative is open to all K-12 public school students in all arts disciplines (dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts.) All two-dimensional artwork, such as painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography, will be displayed permanently at the Department of Public Instruction building in Raleigh.

Artwork can be mailed to the department or brought in person to the Superintendent’s Quarterly meeting at the Embassy Suites Concord on April 18. In order to be displayed, the Student Release Form and Originality Certification need to be completed and must accompany the artwork. Download the necessary forms and find more information at this link or contact Slater Mapp.