RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - The State Board of Education will convene in Winston-Salem for its fall planning/work session. The regular monthly meeting of the group will be held at the same time, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.
The meeting will begin Tuesday and will be held at various locations in Winston-Salem.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29
Fall Planning and Work Session
11:45 a.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Wake Forest Biotech Place Atrium, 575 N. Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Call to Order and Lunch
Welcoming Remarks and Overview of afternoon sessions. The theme of the afternoon sessions is STEM education and the preparation of students to attend community colleges and universities and pursue STEM careers resulting in positive impacts on communities.
12:45 p.m.
Depart for Forsyth Technical Community College, 525@vine Building, 525 Vine Street, Winston-Salem
1-2 p.m.
Demonstration of Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of Texas at Dallas Problem/Project-Based Teaching/Learning with Classroom Teachers and Students
3 p.m.
STEM Connection to Careers and Post-Secondary Education
3:45 p.m.
Board departs 525@vine and returns to the Wake Forest Biotech Place Atrium
4 p.m.
Panel discussion in the Atrium on the importance of STEM preparation to careers and post-secondary education
5:30 p.m.
Depart for the Career Center, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, 910 Highland Court, Winston-Salem
6 p.m.
Dinner
7:45 p.m.
Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
Fall Planning and Work Session continued
9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Board members divide for school visits and lunch at Old Town Elementary, Mineral Springs Elementary, and Diggs-Latham Elementary
12 p.m.
Depart for Salem College, Dining Club Level, Salem College Corrin Hall Refectory
12:55 p.m.
Welcome and overview of afternoon presentations and panels
1:15 p.m.
Introduction to Star3 Growth Measures for Schools
1:30 p.m.
Panel: Multi-Tiered System of Support: Implementation and Results
2 p.m.
Introduction to Incentive Pay System
2:15 p.m.
Panel: Performance-Based Compensation System: Reality of PBCS
2:45 p.m.
Teacher Support Loop
3 p.m.
Break
3:20 p.m.
Board member and advisor discussion
4:45 p.m.
Adjourn
THURSDAY, OCT. 1
State Board of Education October Monthly Meeting
9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
The McNeil Ballroom, Anderson Center, Winston-Salem State University
9 – 9:30 a.m.
Welcome, Approval of October Agenda, Approval of September Minutes, Special Recognition of Guilford County Schools, 2015 North Carolina Schools of Character, State Award recipients, and Guilford County Schools, 2015 National Schools of Character Award recipient.
9:30 – 11:10 a.m.
Issues Session: Strategic Planning Discussion
11:10 a.m.
Break
11:20 – 11:25 a.m.
Consent Agenda: Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee Report: Public School Procurement of Information Technology; Local Education Agency Race to the Top Expenditures: Final Analysis of Expenditure Patterns and Related Outcomes; Policy Revisions to TCP-H-001 – Global Educator Digital Badge Criteria; Policy Revisions to TCP-A-005 – Credits Required for the Renewal of a Standard Professional 2 License; Return-to-Learn After Concussion; Reports to the North Carolina General Assembly on Completion of CPR by Students Required, Improve K-3 Literacy Accountability Measures, Founding Principles Act and Access to Increase Successful Career and Technical Education Participation and Credentialing; and Career and Technical Education Revisions to Essential Standards
11:25 – 11:45 a.m.
21st Century Professionals Committee
State Board member Olivia Oxendine, chair; Eric Davis, vice chair
Discussion items: Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee Reports on Annual Report on Teachers Leaving the Profession and Educator Preparation Report Cards
11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
Globally Competitive Students Committee
State Board member Eric Davis, chair; Olivia Oxendine, vice chair
Action items: Guidelines for Academically or Intellectually Gifted Programs, Read to Achieve Local Alternative Assessments and Changes to the 2014-15 Accountability Data
Discussion items: Approval of Alternative Schools’ Accountability Models and Technical Corrections to Course for Credit Policy
New Business item: Proof of Concept Update
12:25 – 12:35 p.m.
21st Century Systems Committee
State Board member Greg Alcorn, chair; Kevin Howell, vice chair
Action item: Request for Approval to be Funded as Dropout Prevention and Recovery Program
New Business item: Contracts Update
12:35 – 12:45 p.m.
Leadership for Innovation Committee
State Board member Becky Taylor, chair; Wayne McDevitt, vice chair
Action item: Amendment to Charter of Longleaf School of the Arts
12:45 p.m.
State Superintendent’s Report, which includes a legislative report/budget update from Legislative and Community Affairs Director Rachel Beaulieu.
1:10 p.m.
Chairman’s comments and any discussion of old/new business.
1:25 p.m.
Adjourn to closed session
2 p.m.
Board reconvenes then adjourns.
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