State Board of Education Vision:Every public school student in North Carolina will be empowered to accept academic challenges, prepared to pursue their chosen path after graduating high school, and encouraged to become lifelong learners with the capacity to engage in a globally-collaborative society.
State Board of Education Mission:The mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is to use its constitutional authority to guard and maintain the right of a sound, basic education for every child in North Carolina Public Schools.
Pricing and Perks: Early-Bird pricing is $100 per participant until September 30, 2022.Registration includes continental breakfast, boxed lunch, and a heavy hors d’oeuvres reception on October 27 as well as a continental breakfast and boxed lunch on October 28. Internet will also be provided for multiple devices.
District Team Registration (Administrators and Non-Teaching Staff): Register now, Early Bird Registration ends September 30 when fees will increase from $100 to $150 per participant.
Teacher Registration: We also encourage PSUs to bring teacher leaders to the main conference on October 27 & 28, 2022 as a part of their PSU team! All teacher registration fees have been provided by our sponsors, but space is limited!
FREE AIMazing Teacher Conference: Please encourage teachers to register for the FREE AIMazing Teacher Conference beginning the evening of October 28 with breakout sessions on October 29. All teacher registration fees have been provided by our sponsors, but space is limited!
Education Week Sarah D. Sparks | Sept. 27, 2022: Scaling Up Intensive Tutoring: 4 Studies to Know - As districts finalize plansto spend federal pandemic relief money, high-intensity tutoring has emerged as one of the most popular approaches for helping students recover academic ground, but scaling up these programs can be costly. As part of its pledge to bring 250,000 tutors and mentors to K-12 schools by 2025, the Biden administration has highlighted initiatives like the $10 million tutoring system in Guilford County, N.C., that matches students with tutors based on grades, testing, and absenteeism, among other criteria.
EdNCAlex Granados | : Needs-based grants bring building funds for nine districts - The money, awarded from the Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund, is in addition to more than $100 million going to 18 school districts awarded grants last year. Those 18 districts had received most of their original requests, but the additional funds are the remainder of those requests, according to DPI. The fund is one of three building-focused programs supported bylottery money and given to school districts in the state.
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society.
EdNCDerick Lee | : Shifting “From Dreams to Action” at Latinx Education Summit 2022 - To kick off Latinx Heritage Month, representatives in education from 45 North Carolina counties filled the conference center of Guilford Technical Community College for the 2022 Latinx Education Summit.
The U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) is a federal outreach initiative structured as a recognition award that helps to promote effective school sustainability and collaboration. By highlighting schools, districts, and postsecondary institutions’ cost-saving, health-promoting, and performance-enhancing sustainability practices, the program seeks to encourage other institutions to adopt these practices as well.
Learn more about the application process and deadlines here.
Education Articles and Briefs
Public Radio East BBCAnnette Weston-Riggs | Sept. 23, 2022: NC education department survey will be used to overhaul school performance grades statewide - The survey will gather feedback from parents, teachers, students, and community members about the state’s current school grading approach and how school quality might be better measured. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt said changes to the school grading system are needed not only to measure school performance more accurately, but also to help drive better student outcomes since accountability measures have a strong influence on the priorities for teaching and learning in schools. “School performance grades are really about school quality, but right now the model overemphasizes student test scores while not accounting for the other ways schools are preparing students for post-secondary success,” Truitt said. “The model should incorporate other important metrics – not just high-stakes student testing – to redefine school quality. This survey is the first step of many, as we look to solicit feedback from across the state and select indicators that help paint a more complete picture of school quality. We hope that parents, community members and educators will give of their time to complete it.”
WUNC91.5 Liz Schlemmer | Sept. 27, 2022: A rural school gets creative in facing the NC teacher shortage - Edenton-Chowan schools found four different solutions for each of its four vacancies. Three of those classes are using a co-teaching model, and the fourth is using an online program to deliver material. Understaffed schools across the state are playing a game of chess to move teachers to cover classes where they know the material. Superintendent Sasscer has a smaller chessboard, so he reached out to other school districts to help find teachers.
