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Title 1 Teachers at Lincoln County Schools took part in a program called "Engaging Parents in Early Grades Literacy" led by NCCAT faculty member Ernest H. Johnson. The focus was strategies for removing barriers that are hindering the process for involving parents in literacy work with their children. With teachers spending less than 40 hours (out of 168) a week with K-5 students, the need for students to be more involved in literacy activities at home is great.

Here is a great opportunity from our friends across the street in Cullowhee at Western Carolina University!

Western Carolina University will host a “boot camp” for first- to third-year teachers from Western North Carolina from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, in Room 102 of the Killian Building.

From our good friends at the Kenan Fellows Program ...

From NCDPI ...

The 47th NC Reading Conference will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center on March 13-15. This year's conference offers sessions by NCDPI staff, nationally recognized professional speakers and authors, college professors, classroom teachers and specialists. Sessions include:

Don't just manage the symptoms in your classroom. Get at the root cause by asking yourself hard questions.

Glad to have a group from Brunswick County Schools with us for a Solution and Planning Teams program. This group will be working on creating quality written comprehension questions that align with the standards as well as the creation of a rubric for each and every question they create, so that when they return, they have a complete set of progress monitoring books along with a question and rubric for each.

A recent blog post at Edutopia talks about helping students develop an appreciation of math.

From the post ...

“I hate Math. I have never been good at it. And tell me, when am I honestly ever going to use this again?”