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North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching

North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. …advancing teaching as an art and a professi on. NCCAT Funding State Appropriation Grants Contracts Private Donations Program and Conference Facility Fees. Service Delivery Models

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North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching

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  1. North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching …advancing teaching as an art and a profession.

  2. NCCATFunding • State Appropriation • Grants • Contracts • Private Donations • Program and Conference Facility Fees

  3. Service Delivery Models • Multi-day residential programs on one of the NCCAT campuses • Customizedprograms that occur on-site in a specific school district or in a region (NCCAT staff travels to the location) • Hybrid programs with some components conducted on an NCCAT campus and others conducted on-site in the school district • Blended programs that begin on an NCCAT campus and are extended across the school year via distance learning • Traveling seminars that include visits to significant natural, cultural and/or historic sites (grant funded)

  4. Spring 2012: No or Low Cost • Dropout Solutions that Work (Part II)January 30–February 3: (Site to be determined) • Dollars and Sense: Promoting Financial LiteracyFebruary 21–25: Cullowhee • Counting Words and Reading Numbers: An Integrated Approach to Language Arts and Mathematics Instruction March 11–15: Cullowhee • The Outdoor Classroom: Integrating Natural Experiences with the Curriculum April 12–15: Cullowhee

  5. Spring 2012: Shared Cost • (LEA/School/Teacher pays for travel and substitute) • Writing from Sound to Sea: Awakening Creativity by the ShoreJanuary 18–22: Ocracoke • Gathering of Holocaust Educators March 8–11: Cullowhee • The Power of Words March 17–21: Cullowhee • Move It! The Physically Active Academic Classroom April 1–5: Cullowhee • Closing the Global Achievement Gap: The United States and AsiaApril 18–22: Cullowhee

  6. Introducing: NCCAT Legacy Seminars • For over two decades NCCAT has served as a crucible for quality interdisciplinary programming that has informed and inspired the teachers of North Carolina. In 2012, we are celebrating the best of our past efforts and working to creatively continue our service to educators by introducing our Legacy Seminars. • Legacy Seminarsare open to educators • in public or private schools • from other states and countries • retired educators • faculty from other educational organizations • The cost for a Cullowhee-based seminar is $449.00 and an Ocracoke-based seminar is $499.00.* • * Covers lodging (single occupancy), meals, programming, and programming-related transportation. Participants are responsible for transportation and, if currently teaching, will also be responsible for substitute expense.

  7. Spring 2012: Legacy Seminars • • Island People, Island Culture February 13–17: Ocracoke • Salty Dogs and the Lore of the Sea April 9–13: Ocracoke • Appalachian Spring Wildflowers April 23–27: Cullowhee • U.S. Coast Guard: Guardians of the Sea • May 7–11: Ocracoke

  8. Common Core State and Essential Standards • Understanding the Standards • Making the Textbooks Work for the Standards • Interdisciplinary Unit Planning • Subject-specific Unit Planning • Differentiating Instruction • Fees • NCCAT consultant in your district: $1,000/day of instruction +$250/day travel • Five-day NCCAT residential seminar: $500/week/teacher

  9. Connections For first-year teachers from partnering Tier I counties.

  10. Connect to Your Future (C2YF) C2YF is for teachers in their second or third year of teaching. Travel and cost of substitute is not provided except for those participants from Tier I Counties

  11. You are Invited to Join Us at the NCCAT Alumni and Friends Holiday Gathering December 16 - 18, 2011

  12. Elaine Franklin, Ph.D. Executive Director North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching 276 NCCAT Drive Cullowhee, NC 28779 (828) 293-5202 (8oo) 922-0482 (nc) (828)293-7830 (fax) elaine.franklin@nccat.org

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