Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Web 2.0, text messaging, Instagram, video conferencing, music downloading, video games, and online social networking communities—our students live in a digital world, with the ability to contact anyone, anywhere, anytime. How can we catch up with them? Enter this world and acquire technology skills needed to navigate the ebb and flow of the digital age. Learn to facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools. Expand your fluency in technology systems. Empower all students by developing technology-enriched learning experiences. Gain confidence and skill in accessing information as you integrate technology seamlessly into your curriculum. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Capitalize on your students’ excitement and guide them on a safe, legal, and ethical journey into the digital universe.

Open to teachers in their first, second, or third year of teaching, this seminar supports motivated beginning teachers by strengthening their knowledge base and classroom expertise. Through experiential learning, teachers will explore pedagogical concerns including differentiated instruction, brain-compatible teaching, assessment, the effect of poverty on achievement and behavior, and classroom management. Come prepared to build professional competence and confidence, improve student achievement, and reinforce your commitment to this critically important profession.

The NCCAT Research and Development Teams program offers educators an opportunity to meet in a residential setting devoid of distraction to create and advance departmental, school, or district-wide projects. These projects might consist of new programming, research, planning, or curricula. Gather a team together to create or refine your own innovative approaches to early grades literacy or digital learning. Early grades literacy or digital learning projects will be given preference. All projects will be considered. Come prepared to share your knowledge and progress with other teams from around our state.

The application process requires submission of a project proposal from your team, and an NCCAT application from each individual. Teachers, administrators, central office personnel and district coordinators are encouraged to apply.

The NCCAT Research and Development Teams program offers educators an opportunity to meet in a residential setting devoid of distraction to create and advance departmental, school, or district-wide projects. These projects might consist of new programming, research, planning, or curricula. Gather a team together to create or refine your own innovative approaches to early grades literacy or digital learning. Early grades literacy or digital learning projects will be given preference. All projects will be considered. Come prepared to share your knowledge and progress with other teams from around our state.

The application process requires submission of a project proposal from your team, and an NCCAT application from each individual. Teachers, administrators, central office personnel and district coordinators are encouraged to apply.

The NCCAT Research and Development Teams program offers educators an opportunity to meet in a residential setting devoid of distraction to create and advance departmental, school, or district-wide projects. These projects might consist of new programming, research, planning, or curricula. Gather a team together to create or refine your own innovative approaches to early grades literacy or digital learning. Early Grades Literacy or Digital Learning projects will be given preference. All projects will be considered. Come prepared to share your knowledge and progress with other teams from around our state.The application process requires submission of a project proposal from your team, and an NCCAT application from each individual. Administrators, Central Office personnel and district coordinators are encouraged to join a team that includes North Carolina Public School teachers.

The NCCAT Research and Development Teams program offers educators an opportunity to meet in a residential setting devoid of distraction to create and advance departmental, school, or district-wide projects. These projects might consist of new programming, research, planning, or curricula. Gather a team together to create or refine your own innovative approaches to early grades literacy or digital learning. Early Grades Literacy or Digital Learning projects will be given preference. All projects will be considered. Come prepared to share your knowledge and progress with other teams from around our state.The application process requires submission of a project proposal from your team, and an NCCAT application from each individual. Administrators, Central Office personnel and district coordinators are encouraged to join a team that includes North Carolina Public School teachers.

This program is in partnership with outside institutions and are not open for NCCAT registration. Please contact the partner institution for information about how to become involved in these programs.

For the seventh year, NCCAT’s western campus will host the summer institute for the incoming class of Kenan Fellows. The Kenan Fellows Program is an innovative model to promote teacher leadership, address teacher retention, and advance 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. The Kenan Fellows Institute is an intensive professional development experience that explores issues related to educational leadership, integrated science, appropriate use of educational technology, and applied ethics. NCCAT continues to be a proud partner and supporter of this valuable program.

This program is in partnership with an outside institution and is not open for NCCAT registration. Please contact the partner institution for information about how to become involved in these programs.

Since 2005, NCCAT has been working in cooperation with Communities in Schools of North Carolina to leverage resources, to raise awareness, and to help provide training for CIS personnel and to help equip North Carolina teachers to be a part of the statewide efforts of CIS. This seminar is a continuation of the training of CIS regional personnel begun earlier this year. For more information about Communities in Schools of North Carolina see www.cisnc.org.

Aspiring principals from public school systems in Anson, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, and Scotland counties, and the Public Schools of Robeson County will participate in the Sandhills Leadership Academy in partnership with Fayetteville State University, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, the Sandhills Leadership Academy, and NCCAT. In the conclusion of a three-year program, NCCAT will host the Sandhills Leadership Academy during their summer institute. Participants will explore the North Carolina Standards for School Executives, ethics for school administrators, conflict resolution, systems thinking in learning organizations, and best management practices for educational leadership. The Sandhills Leadership Academy is funded through a grant from Race to the Top and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.