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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Elaine Boone of Burnsville, Linda Daves of Asheboro, Kwan Graham of Charlotte and Julie Terry of Ahoskie to the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT).
Boone had a distinguished career as a business teacher with Buncombe County Schools (1964–1966), business teacher at Yancey County Schools (1966–2001) and faculty at Mayland Community College (1972–2005).
The petition was initiated by Donald Nagel, a teacher at Northwest High School in Charlotte, who also happens to be an NCCAT alumnus. Nagel attended NCCAT’s professional development seminar titled “Wiki, Wacky, What? Web 2.0 Applications” in March 2013. He previously attended a beginning teachers’ program titled “Connect to Your Future: Celebrating Success in the Classroom” in April 2011.
Around 90 people attended the seventh annual Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Research Conference on the History of Mathematics, held at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching April 26.