College Updates
OCTOBER 2009
- NC TEACH hosted its annual Emergencies in Schools Workshop on Saturday, October 24th in Poe Hall. Presenters included Leesville Road High School Resource Officer Troy Faust and Garner Gang Investigator David Castenline. The topics included Early Warning Signs; Preventing School Violence; and Response to Imminent/Potential Threats of Violence and Gang Awareness. In the afternoon, students took part in optional self-defense training taught by the Steel Knights.
- Teaching Fellows assisted in the ground breaking event for the Hunt Library on Centennial Campus. Governor Hunt is a strong supporter of the Teaching Fellows Program. “It is an honor for our fellows to serve as hosts for this event,” says Michael Clinkscales,Teaching Fellows Director.
- CED alum and North Garner Middle School Principal John Wall was named Wake County's 2009 Principal of the Year. Wall has been an educator for 22 years and has spent the past four at North Garner after serving as principal of Zebulon Middle School. Wall was praised for his emphasis on goal setting, use of data toward understanding the needs of students and hands-on mentoring of students. He received a Masters Degree from the College of Education in Educational Administration in 1995.
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During the week of September 21, Teaching Fellows and SAY members participated in the annual Shack-a-Thon held at the brickyard. The event brings awareness for Habitat for Humanity. Students build and live in a shack for the week while raising funds for Habitat for Humanity. This year, our group’s theme was “The Big Yellow School Bus." The group raised over $700 this year.
- The North Carolina Integrated Mathematics (NCIM) Project held a teacher workshop at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.The workshop was a follow-up meeting to the summer two-week workshop in which teachers expanded their pedagogical content knowledge of the integrated high school mathematics curriculum,Core-Plus.
- Teaching Fellows, from NC State and Meredith College, heard from Principal of the Year Matt Wight of Apex High School. Mr. Wight spoke about effective collaboration in schools and how it leads to higher student achievement. The event took place at the Friday Institute.
- The Friday Institute hosted a visiting scholar from Australia. Dr. Katie Makar is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Makar is currently on sabbatical, and was at the Friday Institute as a visiting scholar for two weeks. She presented at the Brown Bag Series, her presentation was entitled"Inquiry-based Teaching in Mathematics and Statistics in Australian Primary Schools: Findings from a Four-year Research Study.”
- October is a busy month for SAY Village. On October 2, the annual SAY vs. Teaching Fellows "Kickball & Cookout" was held at Pullen Park Field. Later in the moth, the fellows took fifty 4th and 5th grade students from Hunter and Fuller elementary schools to the NC State Fair. And hosted "Fall Fest," the annual fall service project, which will benefit children at Wake Med Children's Hospital.
- After a victual visit by NCATE Board of Examiners (BOE), they will recommend to the Unit Accreditation Board (UAB) of NCATE that NC State has MET Standard 2, Assessment, at both the Initial and Advanced Levels. This successful visit and report means that NC State is fully accredited by NCATE until our next scheduled visit in 2015.
