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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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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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Goodbyes Are Never Easy

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Eight and a half years ago I joined the staff at WakeEd Partnership. I came straight out of the classroom and began working in our programs area. Immediately I had the opportunity to shape programs that engaged our local business community with teachers and classrooms. What I found was a business community passionate about public …

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World Cafe: In Their Words

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This year’s World Café was one of the most successful we’ve ever had. More than 80 businesses and schools created new partnerships to further the impact of education in Wake County Public School System. Here are just a few stories from the participants in the event. On January 5, 2016, World Café 2016 was held …

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