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Congrats to NCCAT alumnus Brian Smith of Newton-Conover City Schools

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Alumni

We're happy to see Brian Smith of Newton-Conover City Schools in the Hickory Young Professionals Top 10 Under 40 list. Congrats Brian! He has been with us several times at NCCAT.

Here are some highlights of Brian's work for education in NC!

- Assists teachers who have struggling students in their classrooms.

- Provides staff development with integrating math into special areas and facilitates how to work with students who are experiencing trauma.

A message from NCCAT Executive Director Richard Thompson

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Responding to a request from North Carolina educators we were pleased to host EdCamp WNC on Nov. 15 in Cullowhee. It’s exciting for me as a life-long educator when I think about the 54 teachers and administrators who took part of their weekend after long hours during the week, to explore how to use digital learning to improve education for the children of our state.

NCCAT alumna helps welcome home father from deployment

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Alumni

We were happy to read a recent story by the Wilmington StarNews welcoming home Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Peterson. It was great to see this man who serves our country welcomed home by his daughter Aleeya Sampson. We were not surprised to see NCCAT alumna Beverly Ladd helped with setting this reunion up at Pine Valley Elementary School.

13879 • Google Tools in Schools – Ocracoke

2 Irvin Garrish Highway, PO Box 1540, Ocracoke, NC 27960

Whether or not your school or district has adopted a Google Chromebook environment, if your LEA infrastructure allows for the use of Google Tools and/or Apps the “Googlesphere” can be an immense help in engaging students, keeping in touch with parents, automating feedback and assessment, sharing documents, and more. Hone your skills with the Google Chrome Browser, with Google Apps, with Android Apps, and with Chrome OS so that you can engage your students using freely available tools on almost any platform.

13870 • Reading and Writing for Science and Math in Secondary Education – Cullowhee

276 NCCAT Drive, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Reading and writing instruction has moved into every classroom. Changes in the standard course of study require that students read much greater amounts of non-fiction and construct viable written arguments using reason and evidence. Literacy instruction at the secondary level is a challenge even to those who were trained to do it; it can be downright terrifying to anyone else. This seminar will help secondary level teachers support their students’ reading comprehension. Techniques for using writing as a formative and summative assessment—and how to grade it—also will be included. This session is intended primarily for science and math teachers at the secondary level and also would be appropriate for other STEM subjects that incorporate non-fiction texts and writing as a part of the curriculum.

Gamification resource to share

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Digital Learning

We've talked before about Gamification here at NCCAT. We are very happy to offer an online course soon that has filled with educators ready to learn. Students are motivated due to personal choice and meaningfulness, real-time feedback, the ability to collaborate or compete, and over time, they learn stay persistent in learning due to prior successes.

NCCAT Director of Programming Dr. Jonathan Wade passed along this Gamification resource on his Twitter feed @NCCATWade.

NCCAT hosts "Google Tools In Schools" program

A group of educators poses for a picture
Cullowhee, North Carolina

CULLOWHEE (November 18, 2014)—Twenty-one teachers from across North Carolina used Google tools to create, edit and share documents and to collaborate with colleagues after taking part in “Google Tools in Schools” Nov. 3-6. The program was held at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a national leader in professional development.

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