CULLOWHEE—Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger has appointed Cory S. Causby of Waynesville to the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a recognized national leader in professional development programming for North Carolina teachers.
Causby, a 17-year veteran of the human resources and payroll offices at Western Carolina University, is the university’s associate vice chancellor for human resources.
We had some great groups with us for Solution and Planning Teams programs last weekend in Cullowhee. Below is a list of some of what they did.
CULLOWHEE (July 7, 2016)—The Smoky Mountain Math Teachers’ Circle (SMMTC), a professional learning community for mathematics teachers in Western North Carolina, gathered for its second annual Summer Math Camp June 26–29 at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
July is here and that means plenty of new courses from NCCAT Online!
14303 – “Creative Commons, Fair Use, and Copyright”
14304 – “Getting Organized Online Summer 2016”
14305 – “Interactive Read Alouds Summer 2016”
14306 – “NCCAT Canvas Challenge for Intermediate Users”
14307 – “NCCAT Canvas Challenge for Novice Users Summer 2016”
14308 – “Online Discussion Tools for the Classroom”
14309 – “Pre-PBL: Summer 2016”
14310 – “Purposeful Technology Integration Using the TPACK Framework”
OCRACOKE (June 28, 2016)—North Carolina Teacher of the Year Bobbie Cavnar brought his message of giving back and caring deeply for students to the “North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Teacher Leadership Institute” in Ocracoke in June.
Cavnar, a South Point High School English and journalism teacher from Gaston County, and 19 other teachers took part in the program examining teacher leadership held at NCCAT, a national leader in professional development for educators.
Happy to report the IT work we mentioned earlier is complete. We look forward to hearing from you about our programming or what we can do to help!
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a national leader in professional development for teachers, has established the William J. Miller Honored Educator Scholarship to honor an educational leader who served more than 30 years in the school district he attended as a student.
We were pleased to hear from Rhonda Carr of Piedmont Community Charter School about what she learned during “The Role of Questioning” NCCAT Online course. The course was designed by NCCAT faculty members Elizabeth Joyce and Amy Jo Spencer.
14272 • BEYOND THE POWERPOINT: CRAFTING EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS – CULLOWHEE