LIFT

Aug 13, 2024

Transformational Scholar and Teaching Fellow Braxton Cumbo: ‘What Inspires Me to Become a Teacher Is Seeing Personal Growth and Development’

Braxton Cumbo loves STEM and has a passion for teaching, which made the college's technology, engineering, and design education program the perfect fit for him. 

Aug 13, 2024

Transformational Scholar and Teaching Fellow Andrea Loera Valdez: ‘I Have a Supportive System of People Who Want to See Me Achieve My Dream of Becoming an Educator’

Andrea Loera Valdez, an incoming Teaching Fellow and Transformational Scholar, is excited to become part of a community that will prepare her to teach in eastern North Carolina, where she especially wants to support students who do not speak English as their first language.

Jul 24, 2024

A Few Things We Did in Summer 2024

Students, faculty and staff in the NC State College of Education spent summer 2024 gearing up for a new academic year, leading and engaging in professional development, encouraging new students to join the teaching profession and traveling to other educational institutions around the world.

Jun 20, 2024

5 Questions with … Former NC State College of Education Associate Dean Anona Smith Williams ’91MS, ’02EDD Reflects on Leadership Institute for Future Teachers

In the summer of 1986, former NC State College of Education Associate Dean Anona Smith Williams '91MS, '02EDD led the creation of what would later become known as the Leadership Institute for Future Teachers, an invitational program hosted by the College of Education for students interested in teaching who are rising high school seniors in North Carolina.

Jun 20, 2024

Leadership Institute for Future Teachers Serves as Platform for Careers in Education

When the first group of high schoolers arrived on NC State's campus in the summer of 1986 to attend what would later become known as the Leadership Institute for Future Teachers, former Associate Dean Anona Smith Williams could not have expected the program would still be thriving today.

Sep 5, 2023

My Student Experience: Leadership Institute for Future Teachers Sets Foundation for Aspiring Educators

About 20 rising high school seniors from across North Carolina gathered at NC State's College of Education this summer to take part in the Leadership Institute for Future Teachers (LIFT), a five-day residential program for students interested in leadership development and exploring a career in education.

Jul 29, 2022

3rd Annual Leadership Institute for Future Teachers (LIFT) Provides Opportunity for Rising High School Seniors of Color and Bilingual Students to ‘Use The Voice We Were Born to Use’

Eighteen rising high school seniors from across North Carolina gathered at NC State University July 24-29 to take part in the College of Education's third annual Leadership Institute For Future Teachers (LIFT), where they had an opportunity to "use the voice we were born to use."

May 25, 2022

Teaching Fellow and Former LIFT Participant Maia Grace Solomon ’25 Named to Caldwell Fellows Class of 2025

Maia Solomon '25, a mathematics education major, has been selected as one of 28 first-year students who now make up the Caldwell Fellows class of 2025.

Apr 27, 2022

#WhyIChoseEducation: ‘I Want My Classroom to Feel Representative of My Students and a Space Where They Can Be Themselves’ Says Jessica Terrones ’22

Jessica Terrones came to NC State looking for a supportive community. In the College of Education, she found ways to build that community for others and developed leadership skills that will carry over as she steps into the classroom.

Feb 4, 2022

Teaching Fellow Kevin Manzanarez Named to LatinxEd’s 20 Under 20: Class of 2021

Kevin Manzanarez, an N.C. Teaching Fellow and NC State undergraduate student, has been named one of LatinxEd’s 20 Under 20.