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Professional Learning Opportunities
NCDPI Mathematics Content Series
NCDPI Mathematics team will be continuing the Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Content Series for the Fall 2023 semester. These virtual PD sessions are open to teachers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, administrators, pre-service teachers, and IHE instructors. Participants will receive certificates for 2 contact hours per session. Each session meets for 90 minutes with a 30-minute asynchronous reflection time. Sessions will be focused on elementary and middle school mathematics content and will highlight practitioners in the field. Share this information with teachers and leaders in your area. We look forward to seeing you there!
Elementary Math Content Series Middle School Math Content Series
Click here to register: Click here to register:
https://bit.ly/2023NCDPI-EMCS https://bit.ly/Fall2023-MSMCS
Contact: Denise Schulz Contact: Tammy Lackey
denise.schulz@dpi.nc.gov tammy.lackey@dpi.nc.gov
2023 Math Summit
FREE Professional Development Opportunity!
Seats Still Available!
NC State's College of Education and the Triangle Math Alliance will host the annual Math Summit on Tuesday, August 8 in Talley Student Union on NC State's main campus (Raleigh, NC). This is a FREE professional development opportunity open to all K-12 math educators in North Carolina. The full conference will take place in person, and a limited half-day virtual option will also be available.
Francisco Villegas, Senior Vice President of School Transformation at Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, will deliver the keynote address from 8:15 - 9:30 a.m. Following the keynote, there will be over 30 in-person sessions and 9 virtual sessions led by teachers and math leaders across the state.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided, and up to 6.25 hours of professional development are available!
Register Today!
Registration: go.ncsu.edu/mathsummit2023
Website: https://ced.ncsu.edu/math-summit/
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Questions about logistics: NCmathsummit@gmail.com
Other questions, contact Sonia Dupree: sdupree@wcpss.net
2023 NCCTM State Mathematics Conference
Register Today!
WIDA Workshops
Free WIDA Professional Development Opportunities Throughout the Year!
We are pleased to share the 2023-24 professional development opportunities developed by WIDA for NC multilingual learner stakeholders. These WIDA workshops cover a range of topics and we invite all audiences - from K-12 content and ML teachers to district and school specialists and administrators.
Take a look at what is coming here and share the information with stakeholders in your PSUs!
2024 Virtual Conference
Call for Proposals Now Open!
Proposal submissions are now being accepted for the 2024 Virtual Conference, April 10–13.
This year's conference, Rediscovering Joy in Teaching and Learning Mathematics, promotes ways in which teachers can use student-centered instruction to encapsulate the wonder and joy students experience in learning mathematics. View the conference strands to help frame your proposal.
Presenters include classroom teachers, math coaches, teachers of math, administrators, math teacher educators, teachers-in-training, and math specialists.
The NCTM Virtual Conference provides virtual sessions in both Live and On-Demand format. Both formats are 60 minutes.
If you are looking for a way to connect and learn with mathematics educators around the world in a virtual atmosphere, consider submitting your proposal today.
View the submission process and guidelines.
_2134286.png) Proposal Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023
State Effort Helps Teachers with Licensing Costs
TeachNC will ensure federal relief dollars remove financial barriers for aspiring teachers
Financial assistance is now available to new and pre-service teachers in North Carolina facing the cost of taking state-required license exams.
Under a new initiative, TeachNC, a teacher recruitment resource within the Department of Public Instruction, is providing reimbursements for licensing exam costs or study materials for licensing exams, which can average at or above $450. The effort is being funded with $3 million from the federal Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER) controlled by Gov. Roy Cooper.
For full details and the reminder of the press release:
https://www.dpi.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2023/06/08/state-effort-helps-teachers-licensing-costs
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NCVPS’s ToT1 Course Goes Self-Paced!
“An Introduction to Online Learning and Content Development”
The TOT1 (Teacher Online Training) “An Introduction to Online Teaching and Content Development” course is NCVPS’s FREE professional development program for NC public and charter school teachers designed to prepare and support educators as they work in online and remote learning environments. This course will focus on the basics of putting content online and the critical strategies for teaching online.You can now self-enroll and work on your own in this self-paced course.
K-12 Science Standards Revision Updates
On May 5, 2022, the NC State Board of Education granted permission for NCDPI to move forward with the review and revision of the K-12 Science standards, per SCOS-012. The manual was revised at the April 2023 State Board of Education meeting.
The Office of Academic Standards’ Science team is excited to announce that the 2023 K-12 Science Standards were approved by the State Board of Education at their July 6th, 2023 meeting. The work was completed under the processes and protocols outlined in the NC Standard Course of Study Manual. The process included feedback from focus groups in each State Board region, one-on-one interviews and over 14,000 responses to surveys. Nearly 60 different professional educators from across NC districts, charter schools, and institutions of higher education helped review the response data and revise the standards. Thank you to everyone who participated in the review and revision process.
The adoption of the 2023 K-12 Science Standards is the end of the first stage in the process, with the focus now moving to the “installation” stage. Over the 2023-2024 school year, NCDPI will be working alongside leaders from PSUs to ensure all stakeholders are aware of the new standards, have opportunities to review changes from the 2009 standards, and prepare for the new standards to be implemented beginning with the 2024-2025 school year. Please note, the current 2009 Science standards will remain in place for classroom instruction and assessment for the 2023-2024 school year.
To support the start of the “installation” stage, the Science Team has prepared several documents to support school and district leaders.
K-12 Science Standards Installation Timeline - This is an initial timeline for installation of the 2023 standards with key activities and steps for NCDPI, PSU leaders, and teachers. The Science team will begin working with school and district science leads later this summer to prepare future support documents and plan professional development.
2023 K-12 Science Standards - A folder containing ALL grades/courses within one document as well as each individual grade/course’s set of standards
Crosswalks of the 2009 and 2023 Standards - A folder with a crosswalk document for each individual grade/course’s standards
The Science team looks forward to working closely with PSU leaders over the coming months to support all stakeholders in preparing to implement the 2023 K-12 Science Standards beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.
Stay tuned for updates through the K-12 Science listservs.
NC DPI Math Consultants
Denise Schulz
K-5 Mathematics Consultant
(984) 236-2842
Denise.Schulz@dpi.nc.gov
Tammy Lackey
K-8 Mathematics Consultant
(984) 236-2839
Tammy.Lackey@dpi.nc.gov
Lisa Ashe
6-12 Mathematics Consultant
(984) 236-2840
Lisa.Ashe@dpi.nc.gov
Joseph Reaper
6-12 Mathematics Consultant
(984) 236-2841
Joseph.Reaper@dpi.nc.gov
Dr. Charles Aiken
Math, Science, and STEM Section Chief
Charles.Aiken@dpi.nc.gov
984-236-2837
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