Developing the Agency of Teachers
Beginning teachers receive hours of on-the-job support and professional development from mentors and other experienced teachers, but one subject that doesn’t always get formal attention is known as “teacher agency.”
Teacher Innovation Grants
Teacher Innovation Grants Award Winners 2016-2017
WakeEd Partnership, in collaboration with Wake County Public School System, has awarded just over $50,000 in Teacher Innovation Grants to WCPSS teachers for the 2016-17 school year. Teachers could apply for up to $1,000 individually or $3,000 for a team to spend or materials and resources in the Arts, STEM, Entrepreneurship, Literacy, and Exceptional Children With …
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How fast is “fast?” A Teacher Innovation Grant Story
It’s a question special education teachers at Hilburn Academy have to answer every year. How do you teach elementary school students with disabilities the concept of “fast?”   The challenge is that for many students with disabilities, going fast is a secondary experience. Some students lack muscle skills to be able to run down a …
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Helping Our Students Grow
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 …
Building Collaboration by Planting Gardens
“We are asking for this grant to develop an outdoor, wheelchair-accessible, raised garden to expand the children’s knowledge of plants and earth materials.” That’s how North Forest Pines Elementary School special education teacher Rita Vermeulen started her request for a $1790 WakeEd Partnership Teacher Innovation Grant. She teaches special needs children who have severe intellectual …
Teacher Innovation Grants Are More than Money
Schools need money. As a 30-year veteran of the Wake County Public School System, I know that far better than most. In the last 7 years, spending on students in North Carolina has dropped by 13 percent per student, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Like many industries, schools are making up …
Partnership awards nearly $75,000 in Teacher Leadership Grants
Thirty-four Wake County public school teachers will be awarded $75,000 in classroom grants for the coming year thanks to local business investments in Wake Education Partnership. The Partnership announced grants to individuals and teaching teams in Innovative Instruction at a recent program attended by more than 100 educators and business leaders in downtown Raleigh. The …
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Teachers awarded $80,000 in classroom grants through business investments in Partnership
Wake County public school teachers in 30 schools will be awarded more than $80,000 in classroom grants for the coming year thanks to local business investments in Wake Education Partnership. Teacher Leadership Grants for 2012-2013 were made possible by Ethicon, Food Lion, Quintiles, LORD Corporation, the Carolina Hurricanes Kids ‘N Community Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, and Biogen Idec. In …
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Fifteen Wake County teachers awarded leadership grants
Fifteen Wake County public school teachers were awarded more than $41,500 in grants Tuesday as part of the Teacher Leadership Grants program offered by Wake Education Partnership. Funding for the grants is made possible by Ethicon, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Lord Corporation, Hartsfield and Nash Insurance Agency, the Carolina Hurricanes Kids ‘N Community Foundation and the law firm of …
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