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Perspective | When researchers and mothers become partners, communities become visible
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (687+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. “What worries me most is that my children feel my stress.” None of these stories would have appeared in a multiple-choice survey question. Four years ago,…...
A Transylvania County pilot is paying a group of grandparents, other at-home providers for 'the invisible work' of care
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (849+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. When Trudy McCall found out her son and daughter-in-law were pregnant, she immediately offered to help on the weekends. At the time, McCall was living in…...
Five churches, one garden, and a Wilson summer reading camp
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (968+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. The pepper plants are still growing at the corner of Pender and Church streets in Wilson. Every child planted one, and Charles Pope can tell you…...
Literacy supports cultural connection and fosters hope in this rural community
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (757+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. Walking through the halls of Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church in Robeson County, you see drawings of cats with buttons and vowel worksheets on the walls....
Powering up leadership: How Wilkes County Schools is building a stronger instructional system
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (569+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. As districts across North Carolina prepare for another school year, many are asking the same question: How do we create lasting improvement? For Wilkes County Schools,…...
Governor’s Teacher Advisory Committee reflects on the state budget and discusses advocacy strategies
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (489+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. The Governor’s Teacher Advisory Committee (GTAC) met on July 28 to discuss how educators’ priorities appeared in the recent state budget as well as how to be…...
Perspective | Fireworks around the seminar table
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (486+ words) My family hits all the classics over the Fourth of July — hot dogs, music, fireworks on the beach. All marvelous! But for star-spangled, patriotic glory, none of it rivals the scene I witnessed a week later at Tryon Palace in…...
How to provide more innovative work-based learning opportunities for students? These community colleges are leading the way
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (684+ words) This week, leaders from 10 North Carolina community colleges convened to talk about work-based learning (WBL), including apprenticeships. “I don’t think there is a community college in the room we haven’t learned from this year,” said Tara Brossa, the executive director…...
Blue Ribbon Commission | 'We need to pay our teachers more"
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (485+ words) At their fourth monthly session on Monday, members of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education engaged in a spontaneous, unscripted discussion over the pay of North Carolina public school teachers that ranks in the bottom 10 among states. “There just…...
Perspective | What early colleges can teach us about expanding dual enrollment
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (494+ words) Michelle Woods and Frank McKay As dual enrollment expands nationwide, what can we learn from North Carolina’s two decades of early college leadership? The summit’s national draw reflects interest in learning from North Carolina’s more than two decades of leadership…...