With the sunsetting of Google Expeditions and apps like Google Poly, how can we continue to place the power of virtual reality into the hands of students? What if learners could create virtual reality projects to experience our state, local and national parks as well as historical sites? Join NCCAT to collect digital artifacts at sites near NCCAT’s campus on self-selected field trips using your smartphone, iPad and free apps. Together, we will create virtual reality projects that foster engagement, critical thinking, and creativity, and engender something unique to this instructional strategy: empathy and a connection to the beauty and history of our state. These interdisciplinary VR experiences will be aligned to your learning objectives and can be used immediately with your students leveraging the technology you may already have in your classrooms and media centers, like Google Cardboard, goggles, or a simple link. This program is designed for K-12 educators, school counselors and anyone eager to take learners on adventures.

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There is a clear science to teaching reading. Due to advancements in cognitive science, we know more about how our students learn to read than ever before. Please join us as we spend a day looking closely into best instructional practices that support the Science of Reading.

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NCCAT will hold a four-session series exploring best practices for K-5 math instruction. The instructional components shared in this series lead to strong classroom structures that embrace mathematical thinking and honor students’ instructional needs. Attend all four and earn an NCCAT math badge or attend individual sessions to deepen your own understanding of the necessities of effective math instruction.

This class will focus on problem solving. Join this badge session to learn strategies that embrace the eight mathematical practices. We will explore instructional approaches for engaging in problem-solving while empowering students to move forward with math tasks. Scaffolding strategies and instructional routines will be shared along with resources.

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NCCAT will hold a four-session series exploring best practices for K-5 math instruction. The instructional components shared in this series lead to strong classroom structures that embrace mathematical thinking and honor students’ instructional needs. Attend all four and earn an NCCAT math badge or attend individual sessions to deepen your own understanding of the necessities of effective math instruction.

This class will focus on interventions and small group instruction. Opportunities to work with students in small groups can deepen math understandings and build fluency. In this badge session, we will learn small group strategies based on priority math concepts. Facilitation best practices, resources, and progress monitoring techniques will be shared to meet students’ diverse learning needs.

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How can charter school teachers build networks of support for schools, staff, and students? With each charter school operating as an independent LEA, how do we form communities with other charter school educators to share best practices and increase community support? Explore how teachers can better advocate for their specific school and charters in general and how to develop your own leadership style to help support school initiatives. Learn best practices in connecting students to digital learning and student leadership development through exploring personalized, project-based and flipped learning. Discuss ways to model these practices in your schools. Using a “make and take” model, participants will have time to develop a communication or networking plan, digital lessons, and project-based modules to share with your school.

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We know that success with math concepts begins with strong number sense, so how do we build fluency in the elementary grades? This program will explore K-5 number sense routines that support students’ conceptual understanding and fluency. Teachers will learn research-based routines that can be integrated in their math blocks such as choral counting, number talks, and reasoning routines. Come ready to learn new practices and refresh the math routines you are currently implementing while collaborating with colleagues from across NC. This program is designed for teachers in grades K-5.

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NCCAT will hold a four-session series exploring best practices for K-5 math instruction. The instructional components shared in this series lead to strong classroom structures that embrace mathematical thinking and honor students’ instructional needs. Attend all four and earn an NCCAT math badge or attend individual sessions to deepen your own understanding of effective math instruction.

This class will focus on conceptual teaching and building number sense. Best practices for using the Conceptual-Representation-Abstract model will be shared along with routines for building students’ number sense. We will delve into manipulative work and consider approaches to introducing students to new math concepts. Strategies and resources for integrating number talks in your math block will also be explored.

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NCCAT will hold a four-session series exploring best practices for K-5 math instruction. The instructional components shared in this series lead to strong classroom structures that embrace mathematical thinking and honor students’ instructional needs. Attend all four and earn an NCCAT Math Badge K-5 or attend individual sessions to deepen understanding of effective math instruction.

This class will focus on core instruction models. Intentional work with planning math instruction that focuses on developing learning targets, identifying pre-requisite skills, and formative assessment will be hallmarks of this badge. These components will lead to teachers exploring math workshop models to facilitate core instruction during this badge course.

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NCCAT will hold a six-session series focused on a research-to-practice exploration of the foundational skills in early literacy. Effective instruction in these fundamental components holds the key to life-long learning for every child in your classroom. Attend all six and earn an NCCAT literacy badge or attend individual sessions to deepen your own understanding of the building blocks of beginning reading. This class will focus on phonics. Phonics instruction teaches children how to decode letters into their respective sounds, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves. Most words are in fact unfamiliar to early readers in print, even if they have spoken knowledge of the word. Having letter-sound knowledge will allow children to make the link between the unfamiliar print words to their spoken knowledge. This program is intended for teachers and coaches in the kindergarten through fifth-grade classroom.

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Digital learning is a broad category that encompasses the use of digital resources and technology to enhance and differentiate instruction. The number of available options, however, can be overwhelming. Participants in this session will gain experience with free, high-quality tools for: video and audio production, blended lessons, curating digital content, formative assessment, and coding. The program will also incorporate hands-on experiences with inexpensive technology that could be used to enhance instruction. Participants will explore these digital tools as students to best determine how to use them effectively as teachers, then leave NCCAT with a virtual toolbox of new techniques to take back to the classroom.

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