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World Café: A Closer Look at One Company Impacting Two Local Schools

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Lenovo is a company that “Never Stands Still.” This mindset translates to all aspects of the business, from sales, product development and marketing and even community outreach. With a headquarters in Morrisville, Lenovo is actively engaged locally with strong support for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education for K-12 students. Via World Café, Wake …

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Return of Teacher Career Status

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North Carolina public school teachers who had career status as of 2013 are allowed to keep it following a state Supreme Court ruling last week. The Court unanimously held that the General Assembly could not revoke the status, often called tenure, because doing so violated the contracts clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Court did …

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The New Guy

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After a brief hiatus, In Context is back with the addition of Tim Lavallee as vice president of policy and research at WakeEd. Tim was a teacher in Wake County for the past 10 years, during which six of those years were at the elementary level in WCPSS. Prior to teaching, Tim had a successful …

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A Note of Thanks from WCPSS

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  Thanks to the financial investment from WakeEd Partnership, students and families in Wake County are receiving support through the First Steps in Literacy programs. In less than two years, we have Partners Read in ten Wake County schools where 60 volunteers to date read with developing first graders, one-on-one for fifteen minutes. Each week …

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Meet Our Investors: BASF

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In 2050, more than nine billion people will live on our planet. The world population and its demands will keep growing, while the planet’s resources are finite. If nothing changes, we will need the resources of almost three of our planets to meet the demands of the population – a huge global challenge. BASF creates …

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Helping Our Students Grow

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Katherine Sokolowski, an educator at East Garner Middle School, is using her Teacher Innovation Grant to build a school garden with her self-contained middle school class. Over the course of the year, her students are planting butterfly bushes and growing produce like lettuce, broccoli, strawberries, peppers, and potatoes, in a garden that will be available …

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