NCTM Virtual Conference

November 11 - 14, 2020

NCTM is committed to bringing the math community together for engaging content that will help transform the learning and teaching of mathematics. Join your colleagues for the NCTM 2020 Virtual Conference November 11-14 and share in the excitement and love of math!

CELEBRATING THE VIRTUAL POWER AND POTENTIAL OF TEACHING MATH

In a year unlike any other, we are re-imagining mathematics. Sharing our love of mathematics ignites a spark that helps develop engineers, scientists, medical professionals, and educators. Together, math teachers are re-configuring the world!

• Eliminate the Fear of Fractions Using Visual Representations with Denise Harrison and Mangai Neelavannan
• Using Abstract Art to Teach Geometric Concepts: Reimagined for a Distance-Learning Environment with Kristina Barnaby
• Geometric Problem Solving: Integrating Critical Thinking through Challenging Puzzles and Games with Thomas Marlowe
• What’s Next in Statistics? Vertical Alignment of Statistics to Understand How the Concept Evolves with Kathryn Early
• Empowering a Classroom of #DreamChasers with Joanna Stevens

Register Now!

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International Education Week

November 16 -20, 2020

Mark your calendars for International Education Week on November 16- 20th!  International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.  This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of State is part of the effort to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences. International Education Week offers the chance to:

• Expand awareness of and interest in global issues and global learning
• Collaborate with and learn from international student groups
• Gain a new cultural understanding
• Sample a small part of life beyond the shores of America

A variety of IEW activities will be planned by NCDPI to promote International Education Week in North Carolina. From now through #IEW2020, we are sharing several Global Education resources on NCDPI's Global Education listserv and social media! 

Be sure to follow NC Global Education on

Facebook (@NCGLOBALED), 

Twitter (@NCGLOBALED), and

 subscribe to the listserv 

to start saving and bookmarking those resources! 

Stay tuned for more information and resources as IEW approaches!

World View

World View is a public service program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, providing global education professional development since 1998. World View equips K-12 and community college educators with global knowledge, best practices and resources to prepare students to engage in our interconnected and diverse world. UNC World View will offer several programs, virtually, in the 2020-2021 academic year.

NOVEMBER 19, 5:00 – 7:00 pm via Zoom 

Shared Narratives: Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies
In partnership with The Choices Program

UNC World View and the Choices Program at Brown University partner to offer a unique professional development program exploring issues of racial slavery and Choice’s new curriculum unit, Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies. This new unit explores how and why the system of racial slavery developed in the Americas and how it continues to shape society and affect the lives of people today. At the heart of the unit are the experiences of enslaved people as they navigated and resisted a violent and oppressive system designed to dehumanize them. Participants will learn how to use the unit, engaging in lessons and activities. Participants attending this two-hour program will receive a free one-year Digital Editions license for the Choices unit, Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies. The program is intended for upper middle grades, high school and community college educators. Space is limited. CEU offered. Register today:https://worldview.unc.edu/programs/shared-narratives-racial-slavery-in-the-americas/

DECEMBER 3, 3:30 – 5:30pm via Zoom

Shared Narratives: Stories from the Holocaust

Join us to learn about the importance of stories of the Holocaust. In this program we will dive deeper in discussing how we honor and preserve the stories and memories of another’s lived experiences from the Holocaust. The program will also offer sessions with resources for teaching the Holocaust in K-12 classrooms. CEU offered. Register today: https://worldview.unc.edu/programs/stories-from-the-holocaust/

Career and College Ready Graduate

Resources

Here are a few resources to improve your knowledge of CCRG. 

Webinar Recordings 

• Below are links to recordings of one English Focused Webinar and one Math Focused Webinar from the past two weeks: 
• Math Recording / English Recording 

Canvas CCRG PD Resources Course 

• Please visit https://ncdpi.instructure.com/enroll/WW3P6P where you can self-enroll in the Canvas CCRG PD Resources Course.  This is the course that was reviewed near the end of the webinar. 
• NROC continues to customize EdReady for use by LEAs and the materials provided are based on the most up to date information at the time of creation.  The screenshots and processes in the resources may look slightly different from the EdReady instance used by your LEA. The report or activity will be the same, only the details of how to access may change. As updates are made to EdReady, CCRG LEA EdReady Administrators will be notified. 

What’s next? 

• DPI and NROC are working to define how to most easily get your users access to EdReady and are planning a single sign-on (SSO) integration. These details are still being finalized and will be shared with the CCRG LEA Administrator as soon as they are available.   
• NOTE: this is an updated approach and may be different than you heard if you attended the first week of sessions. LEA Admin accounts will no longer be shared this week, as the implementation of SSO will impact how those accounts need to be created and managed. 
• If you aren’t sure who is the LEA Administrator for your LEA, please email Brigette Myers at bmyers7799@stanly.edu or Sneha Shah Coltrane at Sneha.shahcoltrane@dpi.nc.gov or Angie Mullenix at Angie.Mullennix@dpi.ng.gov and we will be happy to assist you. 
• Begin building your CCRG team for your LEA and start planning the training of other administrators, teachers, counselors, curriculum specialists, etc in your LEA.  You can use the resources in the Canvas CCRG PD Resources course above when conducting your training. 
• Spend some time working through the Math and English Student Experience DEMO courses and ask the others on your team to do the same.   
• Watch your email for scheduled “Office Hours” coming in November!  This will give you an opportunity to drop-in and ask questions of NROC experts, community college faculty who have taught these courses at the community college, and DPI. 

For more information please contact:

NROC/EdReady: Nicole McCabe (nmccabe@nroc.org) from NROC 

Course Content Guidance: Brigette Myers (bmyers7799@stanly.edu) from NCCCS 

CCRG Implementation Guidance: 

• Sneha Shah Coltrane (Sneha.ShahColtrane@dpi.nc.gov) from DPI 
• Angie Mullennix (Angie.Mullenix@dpi.nc.gov) from DPI 
• David Stegall (David.Stegall@dpi.nc.gov) from DPI 

NCDPI K-12 Mathematics Virtual Webinar

On October 9, 2020, the NCDPI K-12 Mathematics consultants offered a virtual webinar for K-12 school and district math leadership. It served as a follow-up to the 2020 Virtual Summer Professional Development for K-12 mathematics. The agenda, presentation, and recording are now available on the K-12 Mathematics Google site.

Click HERE to Subscribe to our Google Calendar to get updates on PD opportunities and events.