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         <description><![CDATA[<p>To give every child a chance in life through education. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Teaching Fellows! </title>
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         <title>Perseverence of teachers during and since COVID despite shortage.</title>
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         <title>The great stories of public school educators</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Having ELS leaders in the school system to support the literacy initiative, helping support teachers on their understanding of reading.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>the great digital learning opportunities teachers created during COVID that can still serve our students</title>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:09:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:09:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The research that aligns teaching and practice conducted by faculty/staff in the state to support education. </p>]]></description>
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         <author>lbfogle1</author>
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         <title>Continue to expand and invest in NC Teaching Fellows, support for educator&#39;s working towards and maintaining NBCT, and making sure that people know that our Public Schools serve and support EVERY child in our community. </title>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:11:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A focus on educator pipelines, including Teaching Fellows, Principal Fellows, and Advanced Teacher Roles.</title>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:12:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>UNCW’s Inclusive Futures Program begins this fall!</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Great access to data and a strong community of researchers and evaluators who are committed to conducting work that is of service to policymakers and practitioners in NC.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Ditto to Jeni Corn's post. Lots of great examples of using data to support state policies and of researchers/policymakers/practitioners working together to improve outcomes.</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <author>lsartain</author>
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         <title>Facilitating inclusion of students with extensive support needs in general education classrooms!</title>
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         <title>WCPSS bring back master teacher pay.  The state needs to increase teacher pay across the board.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Master's pay for educators. Reduced pay/support of teachers. Working with Legislators and VOTE!</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The focus on educator diversity and bringing a wide swath of teachers into the professions. </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>NC School Executive Standards have been in the "revision" process for many years. Unfortunately, the most recent draft do not have an Equity Standard for NC School Leaders. The national principal standards highlight equity. NC is falling behind the national standards by excluding equity explicitly. The principal standards need to include Equity and have support from DPI. </p>]]></description>
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         <author>wilsonkd4</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Teacher pay.  Restore the master's pay to help teachers earn a sufficient income.  Also raise the salaries in general.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Master&#39;s pay and base pay for teachers with an initial license. We just can&#39;t keep qualified teachers in the classroom without continuing to advocate for better pay.</title>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:19:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Winston-Salem TEACH</title>
         <author></author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>An inter-institutional partnership between Winston-Salem State University, Wake Forest University, Salem College, and WS/FCS to prepare and retain diverse cohorts of exceptional teachers in Title I schools in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. </p>]]></description>
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         <author>wilsonkd4</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414101780</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>So many teachers have lost jobs in the past money.  Mostly support- intervention specialists, reading specialists, coaches, etc.  Teachers need the support to help all students learn.  We need more funding so teachers have more than the bare bones to help them meet the needs of all students.</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <author>dpatter2_1</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>There is a continuing rise in residency teachers. They need support beyond the "complete a program." They need to know how to use what they are learning in their programs to be effective in the classroom.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Ongoing Post-COVID Impacts</title>
         <author></author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>We continue to see changes in our students' outcomes since the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly around student engagement with school. We need to continue to work to understand the ongoing impact of pandemic related changes and stressors on the success of our schools.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Teacher retention.  We MUST increase teacher pay.</title>
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         <title>Working &quot;across the aisle&quot; to ensure funding and resources -- to forward equitable and inclusive learning environments for all our students across NC</title>
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         <title>Teacher Mentorship </title>
         <author></author>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:20:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>We need to make sure we are not lowering the bar for the credentials needed to teach, every student deserves a certified, licensed teacher in their classroom. We also need to make sure we are investing in all school staff financially with incentives such as longevity pay, Master&#39;s pay, which will require strong lobbying efforts with the NCGA. Additionally, the pay freeze that begins in year 15 for certified educators has driven many educators out of the classroom. </title>
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         <title>Teacher Pay</title>
         <author>nrbeitle</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414103229</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Teacher pay impacts quality, attraction, and retention of teachers. Increased pay and restoring master's pay could support this. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:21:08 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Student engagement in learning of value to themselves and others</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414103242</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Challenge: It is critical that whatever pathway students are on, they have rich and engaging learning opportunities--currently not all students do. </p><p>Solutions: place-based inquiry activities that develop core content knowledge and skills, supplemented by explicit instruction in skills.  Strong curriculum pathways that lead to credentials. </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:21:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>NC continues to make notable academic gains on national benchmarks--a reflection of the work NCDPI and local LEAs continue to do and the commitment to students</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414103835</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:21:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Disengaged students often drop/stop out; their (data) can help us see and support them!</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414103870</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I work at the Center for Learning Analytics at UNC Chapel Hill School of Education. We know how to observe Canvas LMS data (and any other learning platform), and we use it to understand, predict and support student learning. </p><p><br/></p><p>We can predict student outcomes months before they drop out or fail a course, using only the data patterns students produce when (and if) they log in and learn.  </p><p><br/></p><p>We've built a system that can deliver prediction and support in higher ed, and built it to serve K-12 too. We just need to connect with K-12 district partners who have need and interest.</p><p><br/></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://tarheels.live/learninganalytics/">https://tarheels.live/learninganalytics/</a></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:21:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Students and families are showing up to school with a broad set of holistic needs that have nothing to do with curriculum, pedagogy, and/or instruction.  Activating the school building (i.e. community schools) as a geographic hub to respond to these needs feels like a strategic place to start.</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414103978</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:21:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Students with Disabilities</title>
         <author>wilsonkd4</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414104233</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Helping students with disabilities access content and maintain the least restrictive environment.  Having teachers who possess the necessary knowledge and support for their students.  This probably goes back to teacher pay and support for them.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:22:11 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Funding formula/position allocations</title>
         <author>lsartain</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414104542</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The current policy caps resources that the state sends to a district to support the needs of certain student groups (e.g., ML learners). This leaves districts that serve high percentages of students from those groups to fill the gaps with local funding. A potential solution is allocating resources to districts in proportion to each district's student population.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:22:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Schools as hubs of community</title>
         <author>laurahandler1</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414104667</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Our schools often bring together people of all walks of life. It is very difficult to find those authentic spaces. Also, our schools are resource hubs for so many aspects of child development. Recognizing (and celebrating) how schools contribute to meeting our community's needs is essential in communicating the value of our public schools.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:22:48 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>In regards to NC Teaching Fellows, it needs to be expanded to include all licensure areas as it once did, and to be able to be used for expenses beyond simply tuition and fees. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414105095</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:23:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Rethinking traditional K-12 education</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414105451</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>We can leverage new technologies and ways of approaching learning to disrupt the traditional ways that instruction is being delivered in K-12. That could lead to smaller class sizes, the ability to support student needs in different ways, and ultimately happier teachers who want to stay.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:23:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Digital Equity</title>
         <author>lbfogle1</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414105760</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Access for ALL students to technology and digital literacy skills that they need to succeed in our digital world.  For example, access to paid artificial intelligence tools is not available to all students. Students without this access are at a disadvantage to understanding AI and applying it effectively.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:24:08 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Inclusive education</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414106737</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Inclusion for students with disabilities continues to be hit or miss in districts and schools. We have incredible expertise in higher education to support schools and districts with these efforts so maybe a solution is to create a list serve or some way to better connect schools and districts with higher ed faculty so when schools and districts need support or want a partnership, they would know better who to connect with. This isn't just for inclusive ed, but sharing contact information and expertise areas of faculty to building partnerships on topics for change/development/improvements would be a small lift for potential big impact. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:25:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Cancellation of Federal Funding</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414106976</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Institutions across the state have had federal grants supporting teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention in high-need schools cancelled. There is a need for state-level support to account for these federal funding cancellations. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:25:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Whole-Child Resources</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414107379</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>It's clear that we believe schools are essential to communities.  How might we support better student support personnel ratios at the school level to better clarify and align resource availability that contribute to but are not directly about teaching and learning?</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:26:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Increasingly mobile student populations in schools</title>
         <author>lsartain</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414107718</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Schools are increasingly serving mobile student populations who come and go throughout the school year, and the students who are most mobile often have the greatest academic and social-emotional needs. Some potential solutions to discuss include options like newcomer academies, allocating more support staff to schools/districts that serve more mobile student populations.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:26:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>EC teacher retention-Support at the building-level</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414108936</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>EC teacher retention is a major challenge. Building-level administrators, in my research, experience barriers and challenges when attempting to lead the special education programs at their schools. Attention is needed at the building-level to support principals and APs in their efforts to build their special education leadership capacity in a more relational way to support and retain their EC teachers with a focus on human capital.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:27:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414109173</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>There are still a significant number of people who want to be teachers.  </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:28:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414109635</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>To piggy back on Teaching Fellows - expand to all campuses with teacher prep programs the way it used to be. Some campuses that used to have the program no longer do.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:28:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A challenge is a rising number of individuals entering the teaching profession without completing high-quality preparation experiences. These teachers are more likely to be in low-income schools/communities. This impacts student learning, school communities, and teacher retention. As a state, we need a comprehensive view of (and set of policies around) the educator pipeline and how to recruit, support, develop, and retain/incentivize educators.</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414110512</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:29:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Beginning Teacher mentoring</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414110561</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Retention of Beginning Teachers is crucial in mitigating the ongoing teacher shortage. There is currently a patchwork of programs involved in coaching/mentoring of early career teachers (e.g. Advanced Teaching Roles, NC NTSP, etc.). Some type of greater coordination across these programs may be helpful in the absence of a single, statewide program.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:29:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Growing beginning teacher population on emergency licenses</title>
         <author>lsartain</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414111071</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I think DPI has released numbers showing that ~half of BTs are in the classroom on emergency licenses with no educator preparation. Some potential solutions include increasing district capacity to support BTs on emergency licenses in terms of navigating the licensure process and being aware of options and deadlines, as well as targeting PD/mentoring support for this BT population. I think school leaders in buildings with lots of BTs also need additional support to know what those teachers need to become effective and confident professionals and stay in the classroom.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:30:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Special Education Teacher Working Conditions </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414111190</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>We have been doing research on special education teacher working conditions. We have found some specific concerns related to lack of planning time, lack of support at the administrative level, lack of mentorship specific to special education especially those going through residency programs, training for their paraprofessionals, and lack of pay or compensation for all of the time and workload they have. These are all reasons it can be hard to retain high quality special education teachers in our state. A potential solution, we have a grant with the Department of Labor at App State and we are working with three school districts to implement a model that may be something to look at for replication in other areas of the state. It includes 6 different programs targeting these specific issues. We will be doing research on this model and would be happy to share the results on a broader scale. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:30:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414111199</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Finding various pathways for teachers to be paid more for their education or duties. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:30:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>NC New Teacher Support Program</title>
         <author>acash7_3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414111635</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The NC New Teacher Support Program is a valuable partner for supporting Beginning Teachers, with statistically significant impacts on teacher retention, that can be utilized in coordination with and in addition to Advanced Teacher Roles. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:31:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414111861</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I agree with this post about special education teachers.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:31:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>School report card grades</title>
         <author>lsartain</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414114046</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The current accountability system heavily weights proficiency, which is HIGHLY correlated with student SES and access to resources outside the building. This has implications for how the public views schools, especially schools that may be doing an amazing job but are serving student populations with greater needs and, therefore, have lower grades. Potential solutions include better aligning school accountability with what schools are doing to support kids and providing better data to the public and parents to understand what happens in schools. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:33:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Teacher Pipeline: 15.1% attrition among beginning teachers in their first three years; 1 in 4 first-year teachers left after just one year regardless of licensure entry point--deepening our collective understanding of where and why teachers leave the profession and developing strategies and invest in supports that address the pipeline challenges and retention considering current programs and their success (Teaching Fellows, NCNTSP, UNC FIE, UNCG PCRP, and more) </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414114215</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:33:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414114902</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>NC has amazing state-wide datasets that help EPPs to continually inform their practice and support practice-based research.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:34:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Reduce Load on Beginning Teachers</title>
         <author>laurahandler1</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414115019</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Let's set them up for success. I work with teachers gaining licensure, and they have too much on their plate. Along with learning curriculum, developing relationships with families, ALL the challenges of their first years, new teachers have school-based responsibilities, LETRS training, their licensure program courses, and many work additional jobs to help pay for those courses. They can't do this all effectively or meaningfully. We need to look comprehensively at the demands placed on them in order to support, retain, and coach them towards their potential.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:34:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The extreme lack of readiness for artificial intelligence to be integrated into education. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414115218</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:35:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The extreme lack of technological support and updated technology in schools. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414115984</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:35:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>New Principal Support</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414116365</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>NC has a strong New Teacher Support Program - could we have a New Principal Support Program?</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:36:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Dr. Green asked for resources that he should be aware of. www.nc2ml.org - an organic group of hundreds of math educators across NC committed to creating resources, professional learning experiences, and infrastructures free for all teachers/leaders to teach with a shared vision of high quality math instruciton. It is an imporant NC-grown network that supports NC math educators.</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414116737</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:36:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The lack of advocacy for the extreme importance of education beyond technocratic skills in K12 education given the ramping up of ai. We need students who are evaluative thinkers and are able to interact with sophisticated technology in a practically wise way. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414117095</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:36:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The need for students to see the value of education beyond box checking. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414117931</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:37:54 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414117931</guid>
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         <title>School board and district capacity</title>
         <author>lsartain</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414118717</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The capacity of electeds and district leaders varies widely across the state. We need to ensure that they have the right skills and tools to develop strategic plans, make budget allocation decisions, broker partnerships with researchers and nonprofits, and evaluate program impacts. Potential solutions include ensuring that there is high-quality training for school boards and central office leadership, as well as support in recruiting strong leaders.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:38:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Program efficacy before scaling</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414118911</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I would like to see greater emphasis on demonstrating proof of efficacy before new programs are scaled up across the state. Given the current system of local control, new programs that provide interventions for students and/or teachers often take different forms depending on the local context &amp; needs of a participating LEA/PSU. This can result in low implementation fidelity and make evaluation of such programs difficult. As a parent, my child's time is of greater value than my tax dollars and time spent on ineffective interventions carries an opportunity cost.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:38:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>NC Public School Forum EPFP</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414121180</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The NC Public School Forum's Education Policy Fellowship aligns closely with this section. Fellows commit to a year long work that does exactly this---considering challenges, solutions, and deepening knowledge of current issues. At the end of the fellowship a policy project is completed that considers acute challenges and potential solutions. Engaging with this group each year particularly at the end of their fellowship year would be an exciting opportunity to understand a variety of perspectives of challenges and solutions annually. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:41:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414121651</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Guidance and support from the state level to facilitate consistency in EC programs from district to district. Caseloads, access to district level specialists, and resources look vastly different across the state, which translates into students with disabilities experiencing vastly different education based on their zip code.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:42:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>disconnect between research and policy communities</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414122218</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>build better communication channels to help legislators and policymakers and practitioners make research-based decisions about programs and policies for the K12 system</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:42:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>AP and Principal Support</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414123201</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Intentional and ongoing connections and support for new principals. Potentially informal meetings, problem of practice, discussion networks etc. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:43:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>We need to incentivize educators to pursue and complete high-quality preparation experiences before they enter teaching.</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414124008</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:44:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414125531</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Support for principals.  Principals carry a great responsibility, but often have the least amount of support.  New principals need access to mentors, just as what is afforded to new teachers.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:46:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414125737</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Faculty/staff have expertise to advocate for public schools. Give us the skills to use our research and expertise to influence legislation and policies that are harmful to education. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:46:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>There are also sizable differences in the credentials and effectiveness of teachers based on the students they teach--i.e. students of color, low-income students, and lower-performing students do not have equitable access to highly effective teachers. State and local officials need to use financial incentives and focus on working conditions to address this.</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414126398</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:47:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Postsecondary credentials</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414126542</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Make sure every student has the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential with personal and workforce value while they are in high school.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:47:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Social Studies</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414126649</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Make social studies a priority. It is increasingly apparent that several decades of severe marginalization (especially on the K-5 level) has led to an alarming lack of civic knowledge. In order for democracy to survive, civic literacy is essential - knowing how government works and how to be an educated voter. In addition, Tyner and Kabourek (2021) found that “literacy gains are more apt to materialize when students spend more time in social studies [instruction]” due to increased content knowledge.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:47:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Every child in every community has the valuable learning experiences they are worthy of </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414126736</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:47:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Allow public schools to be models of innovation, defined multiple ways</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414126948</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:48:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Arts in our Schools</title>
         <author>wilsonkd4</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414127669</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Support music, art and drama in our schools.  Don't make it an afterthought.  Help them to be fully funded for students.  Research shows how arts helps students to read, and we can help support that.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:48:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>We need to make teaching a revered/high-status profession. Other professions are just as difficult (mentally, time-wise, etc), but students flock to those majors/professions. We also need to rework the school calendar. A modified year-round schedule that moves staff to 12 month positions to provide time for PLCs, planning, research, collaboration, professional development, could allow for better outcomes for students and staff alike. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414127714</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:49:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>We also need to invest more in Social Studies education, especially civic literacy and critical thinking at the K-5 level. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414127905</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:49:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414128172</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Pay student teachers so they are not accruing debt.</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:49:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Student Teaching</title>
         <author>wilsonkd4</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414128182</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Pay for all student teachers.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:49:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Explore Teacher Apprenticeship Models</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414128195</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>NC has growing numbers of under-certified teachers. Making limited licenses renewable means that many under-certified teachers will be in classrooms for up to 6 years without formal preparation. Students may struggle recover from the impact of one less effective teacher, much less for multiple years in a row. NC students deserve better. A possible solution is teacher apprenticeships. Many EPPs are poised to engage more fully in teacher apprenticeships but need policy flexibility to pilot and implement programs. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:49:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Hire community school coordinators for all NC public schools.  This role is paramount for establishing and bolstering interdisciplinary partnerships relevant to each individual schools&#39; needs.</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414128750</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:50:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author>nrbeitle</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414128864</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Higher pay for special education teachers</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:50:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Funding for students in their full-time internships. </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414128929</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:50:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414129169</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>To become a state that thinks outside the box of “how it’s always been done” in education and commits to using Universal Design for Learning as an overarching framework. We are teaching preservice candidates about UDL, but when they get into the field, they don’t see how they can implement it because of the constraints of “the system.” </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:50:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Big Ideas for Public Schools</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414129180</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<ol><li><p>High school student to classroom teacher pipeline; have groups based on university locations, provide scholarships, and guarantee our students free tuition if they teach in the state for 3 years. During HS give them the opportunity to participate in programs to prepare them for teaching</p></li><li><p>Redefine residency programs to ensure we are supporting educators and providing them with tools they need to be successful</p></li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:50:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Restructure the school day</title>
         <author>lsartain</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414130173</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The school day doesn't work for working families. Find a way to lengthen the school day and bring back opportunities for students to have fun, explore interests, and engage in meaningful project-based learning. You could also have additional time to students who need additional instruction time. Move away from worksheets, put the Chromebooks aside. Obviously, that would require creativity with funding and staffing, but it would make a big difference for families and students. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:52:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Required course work for administrators in special education or professional development  </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414130204</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>We have a graduate certificate program at App State in Special Education Leadership. We are providing scholarships through the DOL grant to do research on the effectiveness of this program. I think it is Something all principal programs could include courses on with special education law, behavior management, working conditions of special education teachers and ensure each course is very practical for them to utilize in their schools. App State will have data soon on this program and syllabi for courses with activities. A pilot could also be done with our principal fellows as well. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Pilot &amp; Scalability research center</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414130348</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Creation of a dedicated research center/group that is focused on piloting new education programs, demonstrating efficacy of these programs, and how to successfully scale these programs across LEAs or even statewide.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:52:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Considerations for Generative AI</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414130570</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Generative AI is rapidly changing the landscape of what work looks like and will look like when our students graduate. We need support for both educators and students to ensure they can capitalize on the advantages emerging technologies bring to the classroom (particularly time savings, differentiation, and student engagement). Simultaneously, we need to collaboratively navigate responsible use, ensuring that these tools supplement and accelerate learning rather than simply displacing creativity and critical thinking.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:52:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Paid Student Teaching Internships</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414130684</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>We need to make becoming a teacher a cost-neutral enterprise. NC can do this!</p><p>KY has student teacher stipends supported by their General Assembly: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54580">https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54580</a></p><p>OK has one, too: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://readytogether.sde.ok.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/Paid%20Student%20Teaching%20Initiative.pdf">https://readytogether.sde.ok.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/Paid%20Student%20Teaching%20Initiative.pdf</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:52:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author>lucypittman</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414130810</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Big idea: Teachers come out of college debt free</p><p><br/></p><p>Winston-Salem TEACH is doing this in partnership with local foundations!</p><p><br/></p><p>I agree with this! I think Maryland is also doing this. I also think specific teaching fellows programs for rural school districts where they partner on that program to bring local students back to teach in their districts.</p><p><br/></p><p>Expand the work of research practice partnerships! We need more collaborative work between our districts and universities to support academic success</p><p><br/></p><p>I agree with Christina about paying student teachers!!!</p><p><br/></p><p>Big idea: Center all children in all decisions for ECE</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Accessing high-quality prep</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414131174</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Ditto to a lot here on paid (yearlong) student teaching, apprenticeships/grow your own pipelines, and community college to four-year institution pipelines. There are many ways to strengthen the educator pipeline in these ways.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Teacher Cadet/Early College in Teacher Prep </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414131446</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Early college teacher preparation specific programs for students to get their associates in teacher education and provide scholarships for those who complete to do their bachelors. Also, stronger partnerships with community colleges. We are doing this in the western part of the state and a TA to Teacher Program. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:53:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>DEI is still important in NC Schools!</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414131644</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Continue to have an intentional focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice in NC public schools. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:53:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Partnerships</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414133433</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>We need direct partnerships between higher ed and teachers for research. Teachers (schools and districts) need to be rewarded for working in partnership with higher ed as many districts currently </p><p>are hesitant to take on one more thing and often say they don't want to add anything to their teachers' plates. If research is seen as support and teachers have the opportunity to choose to participate rather than a districts or school decide for them, it would help everyone. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:55:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <author>lucypittman</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414133771</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Superintendent Green, I strongly encourage you to consider providing more after- and out-school enrichment programming to benefit K-12 populations. I have been involved with the pre-college programs for over 30 years and also work with community organizations who have sponsored Saturday Academies and summer experiences for youth. These programs have proven to be "change agents" in the lives of many underserved youth and those who do not have access to educational resources and experiences that many students of higher socio-economic status have access to in our communities. Please explore these programs that have a proven record of success in our institutions and sponsored by our community partners.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:56:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Mentors and Coaches with Special Education knowledge </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414133776</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>A statewide mentorship program with mentors and those early career coaches who have a background in special education. Additional coaches or mentors for each district that just focus on residency teachers and have a small caseload. Residency teachers especially in special education need the kind of support student teachers would need and perhaps even more. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Teaching Credentials</title>
         <author>wilsonkd4</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414135198</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>App State is examining the accessibility, affordability, and feasibility of education programs. There will always be typical college students, but it is essential to reach out to online students, evening and part-time programs, residency programs, and to partner with school districts. How can universities support the "grow your own" or other programs to ensure they receive adequate support and a solid education?</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Whole Child/Whole Family Supports</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Schools are going to be most successful when students have their other needs met.  Using schools to provide more complete supports for families with students and to bring communities together is a promising way to ensure students are more ready to learn when they are in school. However, a caveat is to not ask schools to take on all this additional work without additional resources to support it.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>High-quality, actionable research</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Work in partnership with NCDPI and stakeholders across the state to do high-quality research and evaluation work and be in frequent communication/dialogue with stakeholders to ensure that work is actionable and useful to decision making.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Create an advisory board of college students and high school students in teacher preparation programs </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414136642</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I think our college students have amazing and new ideas, as well as our early college students, high school students, etc. on what would improve a lot of things in education. I think also having their voice heard to understand why we have such a problem with the teacher pipeline in NC. At our university many of our students are looking to teach in SC, VA, or TN instead of NC. High School students are also not thinking about education because of some of those same reasons so hearing from the next generation of teachers would be really great I think to help inform how we get them into the field. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 15:59:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414137464</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Vouchers are a systematic attempt at destroying our public schools.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:01:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Put the learning data that students produce into the hands of teachers, who can make real time pedagogical decisions in the classroom to better help each student learn</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414137575</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>every time a student interacts with materials on their chromebook, tablet or other device, it creates a digital trace. Those traces describe learning and predict achievement. We throw those data away every minute of every school day. We have the ability to save and organize these data and give them to teachers and provide them clear options to support students through differentiation and personalization with tools we already pay for in our schools. Let's be better stewards of our students' data so they become an asset to the learners who produce them, and the skilled teachers who are working HARD and could work even smarter to help students.</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <title>App State Special Education </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414137810</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>As mentioned before we have a grant to fund a model for special education teacher support we will be doing research on. We also have some unique aspects we will continue to do (math clinic, special education leadership graduate certificate). We are also actively working with our community partners to support each other and will continue to do that with community colleges, schools, students, parents, and community members. We will continue to be committed to this work. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:01:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Collaborative research</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414141862</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Continuing to do rigorous, high quality research in partnership with policymakers and practitioners. Sharing the outcomes of that collaborative research in clear and understandable ways. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:06:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Bills to reduce teacher licensure requirements </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414143267</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>There is a bill right now (House Bill 806) that is looking at reducing licensure requirements and increasing class sizes. This is a big concern and a solution would be to continue to talk with our senators and congresspeople. Call, write, go to their offices if you can. They do need to hear from us and maybe we need more training in how to lobby as well in higher education. I am attending a legislative summit this summer to hopefully learn more about that. It would be great to have a training from NC DPI on that for us in higher education too specific to our state. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:08:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Work with schools to get better return on their investment in technologies for learning</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414143675</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>At the UNC School of Education and our Center for Learning Analytics (<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://tarheels.live/learninganalytics/">https://tarheels.live/learninganalytics/)</a>... </p><p><br/></p><p>We're ready to partner with teachers and instructional leaders to help them make better use of their digital tools – and the data students produce when they learn – to improve the ways they support NC students' learning and achievement. </p><p><br/></p><p>We're also ready to partner with district leaders who need better, pedagogy-aligned tools that use data about learning processes to notice learners who are on a path to bad outcomes, based on learners who behaved like them, not who just simply resemble them. We're ready to overcome stereotypes and biases in data use and help model learning and learners in ways that see dropout, stopout, and poor achievement before they happen, and build tools and resources teachers and families can use to engage learners.  <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://tarheels.live/learninganalytics/the-science-of-learning-to-learn/">https://tarheels.live/learninganalytics/the-science-of-learning-to-learn/</a></p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:09:12 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>State Wide Research Collaborative </title>
         <author>clarkka41</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414144516</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>It would be really great to have a partnership with IHE and NC DPI to work together across the state on research together or write joint grants. Could be multiple sub groups across specific program areas (special education, elementary education, math, literacy, early childhood). </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:10:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414152061</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Faculty are here to help, however you need it!</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:19:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>UDL</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414162503</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>A statewide commitment to and initiatives to support UDL as a common framework. There is a lot of expertise across our EPPs in this area that could be leveraged, but it would need to be supported by systemic changes to remove barriers to implementation (resource limitations, standardized testing burdens, etc.)</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 16:32:12 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>ECU</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414290524</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>ECU's Ed Leadership Department continues to engage in research/practice partnerships with local schools and districts. Our EDD students' dissertations in practice enact real, measurable changes that positively impact students, families and staff in NC schools.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 19:36:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Limit PD Days during Academic Year</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414292070</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Limit the # of Professional Development/Professional Learning days for staff during the academic year. This is a burden on working families, particularly families with special needs children. Parents must take off work and sacrifice pay to take care of children. Could PD be during the summer? Pay teachers for a week or two of summer learning days? </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 19:39:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ncdpi/4f44sipcp1m36ku5/wish/3414298800</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>We at NCCU are committed to enhancing and growing the multiple pathways we have for individuals to enter the profession.  Our online program continues to grow; we have several Teacher Assistant to Teacher cohorts, and we are growing teacher residencies along with our program for males who want to become teachers.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-04-17 19:52:27 UTC</pubDate>
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