At Fuquay-Varina Middle School, Mr. Zirkle is using a WakeEd Teacher Innovation Grant to help students as young as 7th and 8th grade develop digital portfolios and resumes to showcase their skills. The grant was used to purchase cameras, lights, a microphone, a computer, and a backdrop for his classroom – equipment that has allowed …
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Just shy of 18 years ago, I became a part of the staff of WakeEd Partnership. After working with four Presidents, two interim presidents, and numerous colleagues in WakeEd’s last 18 years, I have chosen to resign effective May 31 as Vice President of Development in order to pursue a new opportunity that has come …
The way the Wake County government computed the need for increased local funding for the Wake County Public School System was questioned Tuesday by school staff and board members alike. Wake County Manager Jim Hartmann presented his budget to the Board of Commissioners on Monday with $425.1 million in county tax dollars going to the …
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By Julie Song | Chief Compliance Officer, QuintilesIMS I started my career in Houston as a Teach for America corps member in the earliest years of the program. As a young teacher at McReynolds Middle School, I taught students who struggled with poverty, gang violence, language barriers, and other obstacles to learning that many are …
As the question about class size requirements in grades K-3 lingers, the Wake County Public School System is preparing to add about 460 new elementary classroom teaching positions. How the school system reaches that number is possible through several different scenarios, according to Superintendent James Merrill. He presented multiple options to restructure the school system …
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What, really, is the point of a school performance report? This is the question that hasn’t been answered in the discussion about school accountability. Is it to measure the teaching quality so parents know if their child’s school is really a good school? Or is it a self-assessment measure for schools to look at their …
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Wake County Public School System is one of the lucky ones when it comes to absorbing the impact of the General Assembly’s action on reduced class size in grades K-3, but it is going to cost the taxpayers more. Superintendent Jim Merrill told the Wake County School Board that his budget request includes an additional …
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At their March meeting, members of the WakeEd Partnership Board of Directors welcomed two kindergarten teachers from Hunter Magnet Elementary School, who gave a short presentation about their Teacher Innovation Grant project. Kerry Ann Martinez and Cullen Eller attended the North Carolina Technology In Education Society (NCTIES), North Carolina’s premiere education tech conference, where they learned …
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By Meg Osterhoff | STEM Coordinator/Coach | York Elementary School \”When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires will come to you…\” or at least that\’s what happened to us when WakeEd Partnership linked up with York Elementary School. WakeEd Partnership is an incredible organization that allows …
