Preparing for SummerSTEM

| Newsletter, SummerSTEM

Without teachers there would be no other professions. Teachers are tasked with guiding students to see beyond their current status to future careers.  The paradox for many K-12 educators is that they will prepare hundreds of students for various careers, while their...

How World Café is Changing Schools

| Link, Newsletter

Five months ago, more than 100 businesses and educators gathered in a cafeteria to have a conversation. The official name for the event was the STEM and Global Studies World Café, sponsored by Biogen. The partnerships that came from the event have caused educators and...

Teacher Innovation Grants Are More than Money

| Newsletter, Teacher Innovation Grants

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...

Partnership awards nearly $75,000 in Teacher Leadership Grants

| Press Release, Teacher Innovation 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...

Teachers awarded $80,000 in classroom grants through business investments in Partnership

| Press Release, Teacher Innovation Grants

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...

Fifteen Wake County teachers awarded leadership grants

| Press Release, Teacher Innovation 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...