…advancing teaching as an art and a profession
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North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
…advancing teaching as an art and a profession.
NCCAT Funding
• State Appropriation
• Grants
• Contracts
• Private Donations
• Program and Conference Facility Fees
Service Delivery Models
• Multi-day residential programs on one of the NCCAT campuses
• Customized programs 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)
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
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
Introducing: NCCAT Legacy SeminarsFor 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 Seminars are 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.
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
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
Connections For first-year teachers from
partnering Tier I counties.
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
Connect to Your Future(C2YF)
You are Invited to Join Us at the
NCCAT Alumni and Friends Holiday
Gathering
December 16 - 18, 2011
Elaine Franklin, Ph.D.Executive Director
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching276 NCCAT Drive
Cullowhee, NC 28779
(828) 293-5202 (8oo) 922-0482 (nc)(828)293-7830 (fax)