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C&I Discusses College, Career Readiness at STEM Conference Common Core High School Mathematics Brochure Now Available New EVAAS Resources Released NELA Principal’s School Receives National Honor IN CASE YOU MISSED IT •
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4 C’s of 21st Century Learning on the Web Professional Development Opportunity for TALAS Release of Value-­‐Added Data from School Year 2012-­‐13 State Board of Education Policy Changes on Educator Effectiveness RttT Strategic Staffing Survey NEW THIS WEEK C&I Discusses College, Career Readiness at STEM Conference The NCDPI Curriculum and Instruction Services leaders recently presented at the state STEM conference: Bridging the Gap 2013, Uniting North Carolina K-­‐16 Education. The NCDPI participated on a panel that led a discussion on College and Career Readiness and ways to provide quality STEM education through delivery of the Common Core and NC Essential Standards from kindergarten through college and led a session on STEM Recognition Program. MORE INFO: Robin McCoy, K-­‐12 Curriculum and Instruction, robin.mccoy@dpi.nc.gov Common Core High School Mathematics Brochure Now Available The NCDPI Curriculum and Instruction Services math section created a brochure outlining Common Core high school mathematics courses. The brochure, Preparing North Carolina Students for College and Career Through the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), describes the North Carolina math course sequence for high school students and explains the transition to the Math I, Math II and Math III progression. The brochures were printed by the NCDPI and distributed to LEAs for their use in communicating with parents and students. The brochure is also available on our website, at http://maccss.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/file/view/Math%20I%2C%20II%2C%20III%20Brochure.
pdf/450355826/Math%20I%2C%20II%2C%20III%20Brochure.pdf. MORE INFO: Robin McCoy, K-­‐12 Curriculum and Instruction, robin.mccoy@dpi.nc.gov New EVAAS Resources Released As the release of 2012-­‐13 value-­‐added data continues, the NCDPI is responding to district needs through the creation of new resources. Please check the EVAAS Resources page for new resources (marked as new), as well as updated information (marked as updated). The NCDPI will release new resources throughout the next few weeks! MORE INFO: Email educatoreffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov NELA Principal’s School Receives National Honor Warren Early College High School was recently named a Top 10 school for black student performance by the North Carolina Campaign for Achievement Now (CarolinaCan). CarolinaCAN is a non-­‐profit, education policy and advocacy organization dedicated to fostering a 21st-­‐century vision for North Carolina's PreK-­‐12 public schools. Through best-­‐in-­‐class research, communications, and advocacy, they work to inform state policies that provide every North Carolina child with access to a great public school. Ryan Hurley, a graduate of the Northeast Leadership Academy, which is funded by Race to the Top, is the principal at Warren Early College. MORE INFO: http://www.carolinacan.org IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 4 C’s of 21st Century Learning on the Web (Interactive Tools) – Critical Thinking Exploring the 4 C’s of Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity on the web will provide educators with the opportunity to maximize the interactivity of the Internet to enhance teaching and learning. The target audience for the Critical Thinking webinar (Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) is classroom teachers in grades K-­‐12. Participants will learn about and use a web 2.0 tool to enhance their students' critical thinking. Teachers also will brainstorm ways the tool can be used in the classroom; elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize critical thinking skills; and explore ways to nurture the home and school connection. Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/796434609 MORE INFO: Donna Albaugh, Educator Effectiveness, donna.albaugh@dpi.nc.gov Professional Development Opportunity for TALAS The NCDPI District and School Transformation division will present Professional Development for School Leaders Session 12, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Embassy Suites in Cary. All principals and other school leaders from the 118 TALAS schools, along with schools from the TALAS districts are invited. This training will focus on the impact of socioeconomics on language development, how the brain influences the development of reading skills and the administrative challenge of implementing effective literacy instruction. MORE INFO: Donna Miller, District and School Transformation, donna.miller@dpi.nc.gov Release of Value-­‐Added Data from School Year 2012-­‐13 On Thursday, Oct. 17, the Department of Public Instruction and SAS Institute began the release of value-­‐added data from the 2012-­‐13 school year. The release schedule is as follows: • District EVAAS administrators and other district-­‐level staff: data release on the evening of October 17 • School EVAAS administrators: data release at midnight on October 21 • Teachers and other school-­‐level staff: data release at midnight on October 28 For more information on the release, please read the recent memo from Dr. Rebecca Garland, Chief Academic Officer. You can find new and updated EVAAS resources on the Department of Public Instruction's website. For upcoming professional development on EVAAS, please visit the NC EVAAS page and click on "Schedule of Virtual Professional Development." MORE INFO: educatoreffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov State Board of Education Policy Changes on Educator Effectiveness At its October 2013 meeting, the State Board of Education approved changes to North Carolina's educator effectiveness model. For a summary of key changes, please read the recent memo from Dr. Rebecca Garland, Chief Academic Officer. MORE INFO: educatoreffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov RttT Strategic Staffing Survey Approximately 40 Race to the Top coordinators in local school districts are being requested to complete a survey by the RttT Local Strategic Staffing evaluation team. The survey has come to you via email from the team. It is important to note that this survey was sent only to those coordinators in districts with two or three strategic staffing elements in their RttT or School Improvement Grant plans. The evaluation team greatly appreciates your time in completing this brief, but important survey no later than the deadline of Wednesday, Oct. 30. MORE INFO: Rob Maser, Evaluation Team, rhmaser@ncsu.edu RACE TO THE TOP WEEKLY UPDATE INFO If you know someone who would like to be on this list, please send their email address(es) to Michael.Yarbrough@dpi.nc.gov. ***LINKS: PC users might need to press the CTRL button when clicking on a hyperlink in this document. Archived Race to the Top Weekly Updates are available online at: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/rttt/reports/weekly