What may look easy now wasn’t at all when we came to WakeEd Partnership asking for a grant two years ago. Ballentine Elementary is a small school in southern Wake County. The school began using First LEGO League (FLL) four years ago to teach science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) with academically gifted 5th graders. From […]
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Twenty heads are better than one, so the saying goes, right? No? Well, it worked for the members of the WCPSS Board of Education and the senators and representatives from Wake County as they get ready for the short legislative session that opens today. The two groups recently reviewed their policy agendas for the upcoming
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North Carolina public school teachers who had career status as of 2013 are allowed to keep it following a state Supreme Court ruling last week. The Court unanimously held that the General Assembly could not revoke the status, often called tenure, because doing so violated the contracts clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Court did
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After a brief hiatus, In Context is back with the addition of Tim Lavallee as vice president of policy and research at WakeEd. Tim was a teacher in Wake County for the past 10 years, during which six of those years were at the elementary level in WCPSS. Prior to teaching, Tim had a successful
Thanks to the financial investment from WakeEd Partnership, students and families in Wake County are receiving support through the First Steps in Literacy programs. In less than two years, we have Partners Read in ten Wake County schools where 60 volunteers to date read with developing first graders, one-on-one for fifteen minutes. Each week
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Here\’s a word problem for you. Mr. Richard Lockamy is the computer programming teacher at Wake STEM Early College High School. Mr. William Burgess is the science teacher. Together they have more than 60 students. They want to create an engaging experience that can teach the students about computer programming and science. How long will it
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In 2050, more than nine billion people will live on our planet. The world population and its demands will keep growing, while the planet’s resources are finite. If nothing changes, we will need the resources of almost three of our planets to meet the demands of the population – a huge global challenge. BASF creates
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Katherine Sokolowski, an educator at East Garner Middle School, is using her Teacher Innovation Grant to build a school garden with her self-contained middle school class. Over the course of the year, her students are planting butterfly bushes and growing produce like lettuce, broccoli, strawberries, peppers, and potatoes, in a garden that will be available
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If spring really does come early, summer will be here before you know it. That means pools, cookouts and vacations are just around the corner. And for low-income students, summer also means losing more than two months in reading achievement, despite the fact that their middle-class peers make slight gains. One reason for the disparity
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“And, as usual, we’re opening five new schools this coming year.” – Tom Benton, WCPSS School Board Only in Wake County – the fastest growing county in the state – would five new schools opening in one year be considered “usual.” Some school districts don’t open five schools in five years. Of course, Wake County
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