The agenda is as follows:

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 

9-9:30 a.m.

Special Committee on Digital Learning

Lt. Governor Dan Forest, chair; State Board member Becky Taylor, vice chair

New Business item: Update on the Digital Learning Grant

 

9:30-11:30 a.m.

Issues Session. Board members will hear presentations on Teach for America, Communities in Schools and BB&T Leadership Development Institute. 

 

11:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.

•  Leadership for Innovation Committee

State Board member Rebecca Taylor, chair; Wayne McDevitt, vice chair

 

Discussion item: Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Virtual Charter School Study

 

New Business item: NCVPS Executive Director’s Report 

 

12:10 p.m.  Lunch

 

1:10-2:10 p.m.

•  21st Century Systems Committee

 

State Board member Gregory Alcorn, chair; Kevin Howell, vice chair

 

Action item: Low Wealth and Small County Non-Supplant Requirement

 

Discussion items: Process for Awarding New Four-Year Teacher Contracts for Each Residential School for the Deaf and the Blind, and Advisory Council Membership for Each Residential School for the Deaf and the Blind

 

New Business item: Home Base Update

 

Update on Contracts

 

 

2:10-3:10 p.m.

•  21st Century Professionals Committee

 

State Board member Olivia Oxendine, chair; John Tate, vice chair

 

Action item: Implementation of Corporal Pruitt Rainey Brass-to-Class Act Report

 

Discussion item: LEA and Charter Schools’ Request for Standard Six Flexibility

 

New Business item: Race to the Top Teacher Quality Distribution Baseline and Troops to Teachers Update

 

3:10 p.m.  Break

 

3:20-4:20 p.m.

•  Globally Competitive Students Committee

 

State Board member Marcella Savage, chair; Olivia Oxendine, vice chair

 

Action items: Academic Achievement Levels and Descriptors, 2014 Invitation to Submit Textbooks for Evaluation and Adoption in North Carolina – Mathematics, and Instructional Hours

 

Discussion item: State Advisory Council on Indian Education Annual Report

 

 4:20 p.m.  Board convenes in Open Session and adjourns to closed session

 

 4:45 p.m.  Board reconvenes in Open Session and adjourns

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

9 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

 

Following approval of their February minutes, Board members will receive a special report, the Race to the Top Initiatives Evaluation Report: Part II, that includes presentations from Jeni Corn, director of Evaluation Programs, NC State University’s Friday Institute for Educational Innovation; Trip Stallings, NC State’s Friday Institute for Education Innovation; and Gary Henry, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Public Policy. 

 

State Superintendent June Atkinson will follow with her report to the Board. During her report, NCDPI Legislative and Community Affairs 

Director Rachel Beaulieu will report on legislative activities. 

 

State Board Staff Attorney Katie Cornetto will follow with a presentation to the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedures Oversight Committee. Under the Board’s Information Agenda, members will receive the March 2014 Report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee (JLEOC) on Progress Toward Implementing the Race to the Top Initiative and the 2013 Health Active Children Policy Report. 

 

Under the Consent Agenda, members will approve the Proposed Technical Correction to the High School Diploma Endorsement, Amendments to the Career and Technical Education State Plan, Technical Correction to Policy GCS-B-000-High School Accreditation Framework, Report to the North Carolina General Assembly on Educator Preparation Licensure and Performance Reporting, North Carolina Regional Leadership Academies: Final 2013 Activity Report, New Teacher Support Program: Interim Evaluation Report, Amendment to SBE Policy Establishing an Advisory Council for Each Residential School for the Deaf and the Blind, and the Report to the JLEOC on the UNC iSchool/Career and College Promise. 

 

Committee chairs will then report out and members will take action on regular agenda items as appropriate. Chairman Bill Cobey will conclude the meeting with his comments and discussion of any old/new business.