CULLOWHEE (July 23, 2014)—The summer institute for the incoming class of Kenan Fellows recently was hosted at the western campus of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a national leader in professional development for teachers.
The Kenan Fellows Program is an innovative model that promotes teacher leadership, addresses teacher retention, and advances K–12 science, technology and mathematics education. Kenan Fellows are public school teachers from diverse disciplines, selected through a competitive process to participate in a prestigious fellowship. Fifty teachers from across North Carolina took part in the program June 23–27 at NCCAT. It was the seventh year of the joint effort between these two North Carolina educational groups.
“This was one of the best professional experiences I have ever attended,” said Andrew Kaufman, a teacher at Moore Square Magnet Middle School in Raleigh, in a news release from the Kenan Fellows program. “The things I have learned will transform my classroom environment through the inclusion of many new educational technologies.”
There were 15 presentations on a variety of topics during the week of professional development. Paul Cancellieri, 2011–12 Kenan Fellow and former data literacy program manager at NCCAT, made a presentation entitled: “Evernote: Capture it When You See it, Find It When You Need It.”
Click here to visit more photos of the week at the Kenan Fellows Facebook page.