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.
Greensboro News & Record - Jessie Pounds | June 13, 2024
Many families in North Carolina will receive $120 in benefits to help pay for groceries to feed their school-age children this summer, with some of those benefits arriving as soon as Friday. That’s due to a new program called “SUN Bucks” which is being provided to lower-income families this year as a collaboration between the federal government, state government and philanthropic donors. The $120 is a lump sum to cover the whole summer.
Families of children who currently get Food and Nutrition Services benefits will get the new SUN Bucks benefits loaded onto their existing Electronic Benefits Transfers cards between June 14 and June 23, according to information from the state. Families of other eligible children will get a SUN Bucks EBT card in the mail.
Telephone assistance is available by dialing 1-866-719-0141 and pressing option 2. The state is accepting applications through Aug. 31 for summer 2024. North Carolina families whose children completed the school year in another state, cannot receive the benefits from North Carolina, but should consider applying in that other state, according to NCDHHS.
Introducing the first set of Portrait of a Graduate Performance Tasks! Spanning grades K-12 and a variety of subject areas, these hands-on activities incorporate PoG’s durable skills with academics aligned with the NC Standard Course of Study. They were created by NC teachers for NC teachers - and will roll out in classrooms this fall.
The Portrait shows that student academic success matters, but so does a student’s ability to adapt, to collaborate, communicate, think critically, show empathy, learn and take personal responsibility.
The agency has released multiple resources to support the implementation of the Portrait in North Carolina’s schools, such as the Portrait of a Graduate Playbook, Communications Toolkit, and additional tools like Rubrics, “I Can Statements,” Suggestions for Use and, most recently,Performance Tasks.
Check out the implementation guide and tasks for each grade level
Performance tasks are lesson plans created by teachers for teachers that incorporate the Portrait’s durable skills with academics aligned with the NC Standard Course of Study. For questions about a specific task, email NCportrait@dpi.nc.gov to be connected with the team of educators and experts who created it.
Teachers, join a webinar on June 17 to learn more about incorporating the performance tasks into your lesson plans - go.ncdpi.gov/performancetaskwebinar.
Join NCDPI for a “Research Roundtable & Reception” at the Raleigh Convention Center on the evening of Monday October 7, 2024 at the 2024 AIM Conference.
NCDPI is interested in highlighting research and evaluation studies conducted in NC public school settings since 2020. This convening will provide an opportunity for researchers from around the state to engage directly with state education leaders, policymakers and district and school practitioners about their K-12 research and findings.
Keynote - Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr.
New York Times Bestselling Author & James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University
Color of Education is a partnership between the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity, Public School Forum of North Carolina, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, and the Center for Child and Family Policy. The Annual Color of Education Summit brings together educators, policymakers, researchers, students, parents, community members, and other key stakeholders focused on achieving racial equity and eliminating racial disparities in education.
