North Carolina educators have several opportunities from September through January to attend the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), a recognized national leader in professional development programming for teachers.
Welcome back to school! NCCAT is here to help
Best wishes to all teachers for a great school year from your friends at NCCAT! Thanks for all you do for students in NC. We're here to help. Find out more about our professional development opportunities at https://www.nccat.org/programs.
NCCAT Career Technical Education Teacher of the Year Finalists Named
Twenty-four teachers from across North Carolina have been selected as finalists for the first North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) 2022 Career Technical Education Teacher of the Year Award.
"Crafting Social Studies Inquiries" with NCCAT
Join NCCAT to focus on developing supporting questions, gathering and evaluating sources, and using evidence to develop claims in the social studies classroom. Apply now for "Crafting Social Studies Inquiries"
Grades 6-8 in August apply at https://bit.ly/3yCWWSx
NCCAT Ocracoke Campus Long-Range Facility Planning Committee Meeting
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) Ocracoke Campus Long-Range Facility Planning Committee Meeting will convene a meeting on Monday, August 15, 2022, at 9 a.m.
NC Rethink Education Podcast - Education Empowered
Did you know that NCRethinkEd has a podcast? You can access the NCRethinkEd podcast via Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts from the main site. The Dr. Catlin Tucker episode (Part 1) will be released soon.
Teaching the Holocaust: Resources and Reflection in Washington, D.C.
The aim of this program Nov. 11-18 is to gain an understanding of the precursors, events, and consequences of the Holocaust and to grapple with the problem of how best to convey this history and the meaning that it can have in the lives and civic practices of our students. To accomplish this goal, we will explore the exhibits and other resources of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Participants will meet our bus at predetermined locations across the state and then journey together to Washington for this intensive week.
WCU program ‘Call Me MISTER’ holds orientation at NCCAT
Call Me MISTER, an acronym for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models, aims to increase the pool of available male teachers of color in the country’s classrooms.
Strategies in STEM: Engaging Students in Academic Discourse
Students in the 21st century classroom need multiple opportunities to interact with content and their peers in meaningful and impactful ways. By utilizing academic discourse strategies, educators become facilitators of the curriculum while students increase ownership of their own learning. Join us Sept. 23 to learn more.