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Celebrate the Student Achievement and Student Success taking place! 

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Celebrate the Student Achievement and Student Success taking place! 

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Continue to collaborate with local entities to support our kids with field trips and authentic experiences.

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My son is a student at Haynes-Inman in Guilford County. I appreciate our dedication to supporting all of our students.

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Our schools accept all students and do everything we can to accommodate their needs and ensure their successful learning (transportation, meals, IEPs, 504s, etc).

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Celebrate the diversity of our NC students! They come from so many beautiful cultures and rich histories here in NC!

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As national attacks on public education escalate (book bans, voucher expansion, and DEI rollbacks), how will you ensure NC protects public school workers' voices? Do you support local efforts to formalize worker input like meet and confer?”

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As students continue to engage with technology and digital tools, we need additional staffing as Instructional Technology staff to help teachers integrate technology more effectively.

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We need more qualified teachers in the classrooms. We need to be able to educate and train the next generation of teachers, as well as retain our experienced teachers. The solution is fair pay across all levels of experience.

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Thank you so much for listening to our concerns. I’m a veteran educator with over 20 years experience. My daughter has severe food allergies and asthma. She has a 504. With the dismantling of the education department, how will we ensure that students like her will continue to have equal access to education?

My solution is to create an allergy advocate position to help support teachers and students with inclusionary practices.

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Challenge: no/inconsistent/minimal pay opportunities in summer (we can do 12 month pay but that significantly lowers our 10 month pay)

solution: create summer opportunities for all educators (developing lessons or activities, working with districts to prepare for the new year, streamlining access to online resources, training/giving PD to other educators), increase salaries (so when an educator chooses 12 month pay the hit isn't as hard), create leadership cohorts throughout the year that target areas of need (specific to the state, district, or region deficits or needs) that offers additional pay so educators can save for the summer, keep summer school and offer to all students (not just major testing grades).

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Challenge: Disconnect between legislators and those making policies with classroom teachers who are on the frontlines.

Solution: Create more ways for educators to provide input (from all over the state). Give NCAE a seat at the table to advocate. Create more advisory groups. Help educate the legislators about what is happening in schools before they put a bill out.

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Challenge: Calendar law is inequitable and frustrating. Not every district is following the calendar law, and charter and private schools don't have to follow it. The current calendar law doesn't sync up well with community colleges, and we have a lot of kids taking college classes while in high school.

Solution: Put the school calendar fully back under local control. Educate the public and legislators that local populations can elect their school board who can then make a local decision about the calendar that fits local needs.

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There are too many responsibilities placed on counselors and other support staff in the building. It is the same across the board and that is the reason I believe there's so many vacancies across the state. We also have very high caseloads and it's only supposed to be 250 per counselor. 

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There are too many responsibilities placed on counselors and other support staff in the building. It is the same across the board and that is the reason I believe there's so many vacancies across the state. We also have very high caseloads and it's only supposed to be 250 per counselor. 

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Challenge: Traditional public schools are underfunded. Healthcare and retirement benefits could be in jeopardy without enough funding. Taxes are being cut, and the federal government may end their funding, turning things back over to the state.

Solution: One solution is to eliminate vouchers completely. A second solution is to at least freeze any tax cuts for the next several years, and possibly create a special penny sales tax specifically for funding public schools.

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It would be nice to be able to choose to do either 10 month pay or 12 month pay when working at a traditional school. It's not always easy to find a summer job

To help pay

Also teacher would Prefer to be paid bi-weekly rather than monthly.

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Bring back FULL NC Teaching Fellows Programming!

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Increase the number of high quality affordable PreK programs across the state. Fully fund early education programs so we can give all kids the best start possible.

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The resources that are used in Wake. County are not sufficient to help meet our students academic needs. Please have a group teachers can apply to be on to preview research based resources to teach the standards. Once the top 3 choices have been made send the resources to the schools for teachers to review and vote on. There are currently no science resources but students take EOGs in fifth grade.

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Teachers are expected to go back above and beyond their contract time and it would be great if they were offered comp time.

There are so many expectations put on teachers and it has taken away the joy of teaching. It would be nice to allow teachers to teach and make learning fun again.

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All students free breakfast and lunch (heck, even afternoon/morning snack).

Breakfasts and lunches need to be made in the kitchen (atleast some), not heated up in the plastic package they come in and given to students. 90% or more of our breakfast options are served to the students in plastic. Bring back eggs, sausage, bacon, grits, toast, etc.

4 student facing days a week, three floating Friday workdays (teacher choice) each month, one Friday is a mental health day.

Bring back the PEOPLE. Support is vital. No such thing as "too much support".

Strong PTAs in every school!

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Challenge: Inappropriate developmental practices in elementary school. Teachers have to implement so many programs (with fidelity) that the joy of learning is being lost. Elementary students are having increased behavior problems due to the fact that what we’re asking them to do is not developmentally appropriate.

Solution: Bring back ‘play’ within the classroom. Limit the number of programs that are mandated. Give teachers more ownership and flexibility within the classrooms!

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Our schools could really benefit from a massive statewide infrastructure bond (like what Gov. Stein has proposed but larger). We have so many crumbling schools in every LEA with poor HVAC, leaky roofs and students crammed 40-45 in trailers. Our counties (which are primarily responsible for funding our own infrastructure) are growing so quickly we can barely build enough new schools to keep up with the growth and have very little funding left over to repair and upgrade the older facilities most of our students attend. Students who attend nice facilities feel pride in their surroundings and feel worthy of the digs and to an extent that is reflected in their attitudes about their learning.

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J.T. Williams Montessori in Charlotte-Mecklenburg School - Amanda Thompson, CMAE

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Parents sometimes engage in schools in ways that make them feel negative about their experiences. Additionally, many parents want to engage with schools but struggle to navigate how school works. More than parent listening sessions, schools would have a built in parent center as a resource for them which would benefit engagement and support.

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I’d love to have a better partnership with schools and parents, that we work together for the success and well-being of all NC children.  North Carolina needs to be a leader in education, not just looking at other states to see what they do first.  Teachers should be treated with respect and given support we need, which includes time and funding for quality professional development.  And that parents have the resources they need to help their children at home and have access to fully funded pre-K programs.

But, we need more teachers providing voice on major decisions, and I’d love to get more involved at opportunities like advisory groups and listening sessions.  But one big idea is that NCAE is given a seat at the table and that we can collectively bargain in this state.

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funding and  high ratios for students:counselors:teachers

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funding and  high ratios for students:counselors:teachers

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We need to lower the ratios between students to counselors to teachers. hard stop. we need funding to support the education and growth of our schools. We need to increase teacher pay and respect.