Be a Teacher Leader: Tips for Leading as You Teach

Scenario: You are a beginning second-grade teacher who learns about the poor performance of third-graders in writing a text-dependent analysis (TDA). While in college, you were on the debating team and recognized how the club contributed to your writing skills, especially with TDAs. You want to focus on the development of the students in your homeroom and not take on …

Perspective | International teachers more than just solutions to teacher shortages

This is a guest post that is reposted from Mario Jackson As this academic year unfolds, and we are forced to grapple with varying degrees of teacher shortages across the country, many educational policy conversations are centered on finding sustainable solutions. International teachers have and continue to be one of North Carolina’s fastest-growing teaching populations. Furthermore, this group of teachers continues to …