#GoOpenNC Open Educator Resources

GoOpenNC is the North Carolina, K-12, open education resources (OER) initiative. GoOpenNC is also the name of the platform where NC educators can search for, curate, and create openly-licensed, educational resources that are aligned to NC standards.

Connect with educators across North Carolina to share resources, learn how to incorporate OER into teaching and learning, and participate in a community of practice.

Smithsonian Science Education Center Resources

The Smithsonian Science Education Center has free curriculum resources for science teachers.  Feel free to browse their collection and tailor these resources to align with your classroom science instruction.

Professional Development Opportunities with NCCAT

The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching  (www.nccat.org) (NCCAT) provides professional development to NC  educators in residential, online, virtual, school, and regional settings. Our professional learning is designed to help you gain knowledge and skills to support student learning. Make plans today to join us for timely, research-based professional development!   Click this link to apply now for NCCAT Programs.

The division of Digital Teaching and Learning (DTL) is excited to announce its new iteration of NCBOLD for this summer. Previously NCBOLD had been a virtual professional learning opportunity for public school educators throughout North Carolina.  Realizing the importance of high quality, face to face professional learning, DTL will offer an all day digital teaching and learning conference in each of the educational regions throughout our state.  NCBOLD has recruited current, practicing educators with a proven track record of delivering high quality and innovative professional learning tied to the Digital Learning Competencies for both educators and administrators and the Digital Learning Standards for students. These NCBOLD ambassadors will create and execute innovative sessions that will allow practicing educators to effectively integrate digital teaching and learning in their classrooms. For the summer of 2022, NCBOLD will be hosted at the following locations. 

Please register for any date and location that works for your schedule!

For questions or additional information, contact Lauren.Boucher@dpi.nc.gov and Brian.Whitson@dpi.nc.gov.

Cretaceous Creatures: Dueling Dinosaurs!

Dueling Dinosaurs!!  8th Grade Science Teachers!

Cretaceous Creatures launches Fall 2022, and you are invited! Register for a new, FREE Professional Development Workshop to get involved!

This workshop invites you to participate in the launch of a new public science project that offers students across North Carolina the opportunity to make their own fossil discoveries. Classrooms will sort through 66-million-year-old sediment from Montana to discover and identify microfossils (small bones, teeth, scales, and shells) that no one has seen before (not even scientists)!

In Person Workshop:

Saturday, October 01, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Downtown Raleigh)

Register by August 01, 2022: https://forms.gle/y15ereY669fV9kJv6

Virtual Workshop (Required Attendance for Both Dates):

Tuesday, October 04, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Zoom AND

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Zoom 

Register by August 01, 2022: https://forms.gle/cMRCfMoq54aCU5PQA

Questions? Contact:

Dr. Elizabeth D. Jones, Ph.D. (elizabeth_jones@ncsu.edu)

Cretaceous Creatures Coordinator, NCMNS Paleontology Research Lab

Cretaceous Creatures Flyer

K-12 Science Standards Revision Update

The Internal Procedures Manual on pages 12-18 provides greater detail on where we are in the Science Standards Revision Process.  The following actions have been completed: The stakeholder survey window has been closed.  The Data Review Committee (DRC) members have been selected.  Six interviews have been completed, as well as two focus groups.  The DRC will review raw data and trends on the current standards and make recommendations based on this data for the Standards Writing Team (SWT) to consider as they revise the standards.  The DRC will review extensive data collected by surveys, focus groups, and interviews, as well as research on other states’ standards, national standards and frameworks, and scholarly research.  Currently in progress is as follows: The SWT is being selected.  The stakeholder survey is still in progress.  Interview and focus group data will be sent to the Office of Learning Recovery (OLR).  Public School Unit (PSU) survey collection and remaining focus groups will be completed by mid-August.  Science has 70% of the PSU surveys back with the goal of at least 80%.

NC DPI Science Consultants

Dr. Debra Hall

K-5 Science

debra.hall@dpi.nc.gov

Gavin Fradel 

6-8 Science

gavin.fradel@dpi.nc.gov

Benita Tipton 

9-12 Science

 benita.tipton@dpi.nc.gov

Alexis Wood

9-12 Science

kathryn.wood@dpi.nc.gov

Additional Contacts:

Dr. Charles Aiken

Section Chief K-12 Mathematics, Science and STEM

charles.aiken@dpi.nc.gov

Howard Ginsburg

K-12 STEM Consultant

howard.ginsburg@dpi.nc.gov

Marilyn Johns

Administration Specialist

marilyn.johns@dpi.nc.gov

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