The Career Pathways that are part of the R3 Program to recruit, retain, and reward our best educators allows our teacher leaders to learn, explore, and collaborate to tackle instructional problems of practice. I have been thinking recently about what our teachers need to be able to do in order to begin the process of... Continue Reading →

I've been thinking a lot about learning and failing. Thomas Edison is credited with saying, "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." That is sometimes a hard lesson to learn and even a harder lesson to live, but it's one that the DEEL Team and the teachers and administrators who... Continue Reading →

My bride sent me a text message in October with a screenshot of a Facebook post from one of the most amazing teachers she knows.  In the post, the teacher was looking for a 2nd job to take care of new family needs - daycare for a new baby. I thought, why on Earth would... Continue Reading →

Whether you like it or not, meetings are often how things get done in work and in schools. In The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups (2013), Garmston and Wellman describe how the professional communication that occurs when teacher meet can happen both during informal settings, like meeting quickly in the hall with... Continue Reading →

The mission of the Key BT Program is to engage and empower our creative, innovative, and effective beginning teachers to become collaborative leaders. There's a lot packed into that sentence and Tuesday, 10/17/17, we started to unpack that mission with the 4th cohort of the Key BT Program. 48 Beginning Teachers selected by their peers... Continue Reading →

The end if the summer is always an exciting time of year for the Pitt County Schools Teacher Support program. Working with our new hires allows us impact the education of students for the next thirty years. This summer PCS Beginning Teacher Support hosted three different groups during our New Teacher Orientations from Aug 10th-16th, our... Continue Reading →

The Division of Educator Effectiveness and Leadership has a home! DEEL, 1103A Corporate Drive, Greenville, NC 27858. If you need to send anything in the PCS courier to Seth Brown, Tom Feller, or Kenisha Wilson, you can send it to "DEEL" and it will get to us. Officially our team moves in Monday, June 19th, but... Continue Reading →

The R3 Program and TIF/TCM grants are huge changes that Pitt County Schools will continue to tackle over the next four years. Even though the core program was developed by teachers and educators, we have to recognize that it is a change and change is scary. This post reveals some of the frameworks I use... Continue Reading →

Standing on the steps of the US Supreme Court, you can look out and see the Capital. The marble and columns are massive and impressive. Knowing the decisions that have shaped our country were made between these two buildings, makes me humble and hungry. Tom and I had the opportunity to drive up early to Washington... Continue Reading →