About NCCAT

Recognizing that caring and skilled faculties make the best schools, the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching offers a full complement of professional development activities, including residential seminars, teacher-scholar residencies, and other programs.  Established in 1985, the center offers more than ninety seminars each year for educators at the pre kindergarten through 12th grade levels who have been teaching full time in North Carolina for at least three years. The center is located in Jackson County in the state’s southwestern mountains with a second campus located on Ocracoke Island.

NCCAT, is the first state-funded center of its kind in the nation has brought national attention to North Carolina. A center of the University of North Carolina, education officials from many states have visited to see its facilities and programs in action. In 1995, United States leaders in government and education gathered at NCCAT for a meeting of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. NCCAT has been featured in the Education Life supplement of the New York Times in an article titled "Giving the Teacher Balm for Burnout" and on National Public Radio.