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Professional Development Opportunities
Empowering Educators and Elevating Outcomes: Growing Success for MLs and The Standards Academy
The NCDPI Office of Teaching and Learning is hosting two simultaneous and interconnected conferences: The Standards Academy and Growing Success for Multilingual Learners (MLs). These events aim to empower educators and enhance educational outcomes by fostering collaboration among participants from Public School Units (PSUs). Both conferences are free, allowing attendees to move between sessions seamlessly.
The Standards Academy: The Office of Teaching and Learning receives many requests from the field for standards-based professional development. Participants will be guided through all content area standards, from unpacking to instructional practices. These sessions aim to give new and veteran educators a deeper understanding of the Standard Course of Study. In addition, sessions will be provided pertaining to Exceptional Children, honors-level coursework, Digital Teaching and Learning, and CTE.
Growing Success for Multilingual Learners (MLs): This conference is specifically designed for educators committed to fostering enriching learning environments for MLs. It offers tailored sessions for content and ML teachers, administrators, curriculum specialists, and Title III professionals. Join experts from across the state and the Department of Public Instruction to explore strategies for integrating North Carolina English Language Development (ELD) standards into content courses and learn best practices to enhance language proficiency. The conference emphasizes creating meaningful engagement by linking language learning with practical applications, ensuring that ML students thrive academically.
This event provides a unique opportunity for educators to collaborate, exchange best practices, and elevate student outcomes! Don't miss the opportunity to send a school team! Review the conference brochure for more information, and register today!
- Connect with other educators, share ideas, and build a supportive professional network.
Don’t miss the chance to turbocharge your expertise by elevating your impact in supporting multilingual learners at the MLs Summer Conference and strengthening your understanding of content standards at the Standards Academy!
All K-12 NC educators are invited to attend.
The goal is for participants to be able to sign up for sessions at both conferences in either Western or Eastern North Carolina.
- July 22-24 in Eastern NC - Chatham County
- June 27 and July 25 are Virtual Days Growing Success for MLs only)
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Online Workshops
NATURE NEIGHBORHOOD WORKSHOPS
This series of free, asynchronous virtual workshops will guide you through information and activities for exploring the natural world right in your own backyard. Each workshop includes a short introductory video and follow-up assignments to get outdoors and explore your "nature neighborhood!" You can do them at your own pace, as all the resources and materials are available on an ongoing basis. You can receive credit towards CEUs or EE certification (Criteria 2).
No time for a workshop right now? You don’t have to take a workshop to use the materials with your students. All of our Nature Neighborhood videos, activities, and resources are curriculum-correlated and available for downloading!
Looking for live/synchronous workshops? Check out our Educator Treks for virtual and in-person offerings!
How to participate
Workshop topics
- Creating a Nature Journal
- Credit: 2 contact hours
- Create your very own nature journal with household materials and get tips to start the practice of nature journaling
- Using Your Senses
- Credit: 1 contact hour
- Practice making more detailed observations by focusing on all of your senses.
- Looking Closely
- Credit: 2 contact hours
- Take advantage of one of the most simple yet powerful tools to observe the world around you: a magnifying glass!
- Parts of a Flower
- Credit: 2 contact hours
- Review the parts of a flower and then apply your knowledge as you observe the flowers in your yard.
- Citizen Science Adventure: Nature’s Notebook
- Credit: 3 contact hours + 2 additional hours with an extension activity
- Learn how to collect data on the plants and animals in your yard for the Nature’s Notebook citizen science project.
- Citizen Science Adventure: eBird
- Credit: 3 contact hours
- Get tips on observing, identifying, and sketching birds and learn how to contribute to the eBird citizen science project.
- Under a Rotten Log
- Credit: 2 contact hours
- Explore the amazing world beneath a rotten log and practice making scientific diagrams.
- Trees to Meet You
- Credit: 3 contact hours
- Learn about tree characteristics, sharpen your observation and drawing skills with a leaf contour drawing, and gather resources for tree identification.
- Citizen Science Adventure: Project Squirrel
- Credit: 2 contact hours
- Report squirrel sightings for science and observe interesting squirrel behaviors in your backyard!
- Vulture EdVenture with the NC Zoo
- Credit: 3 contact hours + 2 additional hours with extension activities
- The Museum teamed up with the NC Zoo to learn all about nature's clean-up crew — vultures! Practice creative writing by turning vulture observations into a concrete poem and design paper vultures (airplanes) to see how far they can glide. Explore and model the vulture's all-important role in the ecosystem.
- Insect Investigation
- Credit: 3 contact hours
- Practice collecting and identifying local insects, learn about fair questions, and create your own arthropod!
Student Opportunities
 
Access New Content in the External Implementation Guide: A Place for All Standards Resources
The Office of Academic Standards is excited to announce a new Canvas site to support the standards implementation process. The External Implementation Guide Canvas Page is a repository for all North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSOS) stakeholders. This repository provides a variety of resources for supporting administrators, educators, and parents during the implementation of the Standard Course of Study for each content area. The range of resources offers users an opportunity to determine their own specific needs and find materials that suit them.
This Canvas repository can be accessed with or without a Canvas account. Browse through resources to help you learn, plan, instruct, review, and inform yourself or others.
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 Integrative STEM Specialist
howard.ginsburg@dpi.nc.gov
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