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When good things are happening, others notice. In the past three months the work of Pitt County Schools has been recognized by multiple organizations around the country, and I wanted to take a few minutes to share those links with you. These are all located on our DEEL In the News! page (accessible by clicking... Continue Reading →
Teachers interested in serving as either a Facilitating Teacher (FT) or Multi-Classroom Teacher (MCT) in Pitt County Schools are invited to apply for positions. Internal candidates should apply using the links at the top of this website, and external candidates should apply via both the regular PCS job form AND the links at the top of... Continue Reading →
We are very excited today to announce that 65 new advanced teaching positions have been awarded to schools across the district. Over the past month district staff have reviewed applications and requests from teachers and schools for Facilitating Teacher, Collaborating Teacher, and Multi-Classroom Teacher positions for the 2018-2019 school year. Below are the positions that... Continue Reading →
R3 was birthed out of a desire to invest in teachers in our district, in response to a concern we had as a district that too many of our teachers were either leaving the classroom or the profession because they in large part because they felt there were not opportunities to increase their influence and... Continue Reading →
Imagine that you had the potential to propose a collaborative action research project to the district and then get paid to engage in that research. That's what I'm excited to announce today! This year PCS has been implementing the roll of Facilitating Teachers in schools across the district. Currently, there are 54 teachers working as... Continue Reading →
Today we are releasing the Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Program Evaluator for the R3 Initiative. The RFP can be found by clicking here. We are seeking a program evaluation for both the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) and the State of North Carolina Teacher Compensation Model grants we have received.
Pitt County Schools is excited to announce that 66 Facilitating Teacher (FT) vacancies have been awarded to schools across the county, to begin with the 2017-2018 School Year. These FTs will serve as teacher leaders who facilitating collaborative action research projects and lead communities of practice at their school. These vacancies are open to all […]
Over the last two months we’ve introduced you to the first three elements of R3. You’ve learned about the KeyBT program, the Teacher Leadership Institute, and the Career Pathways Model, and in the last post we pulled them together to look at how they aligned, how they were different, and how compensation was structured for... Continue Reading →
We're excited to announce that we have created a page on the website for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). You can access the page by click the "About" menu at the top of the page and selecting "FAQs" from the sub menu. The page will be updated periodically as we receive questions either via email or... Continue Reading →
Over the past several weeks we have been exploring the career pathway options for teachers within Pitt County Schools that will be available in the coming years. The long-term goal in offering these pathways is to help provide opportunities for teachers to expand their influence and increase their income while remaining in the classroom working... Continue Reading →
In the previous post we looked at the Facilitating Teacher and Collaborating Teacher, both positions that will begin in the fall of 2017 (meaning the hiring process will start in the Spring of 2017). The fourth path (and second new option) for teachers is the Multi-Classroom Teacher (MCT), and it represents (in our current estimation)... Continue Reading →
Two weeks ago PCS announced vacancies for 66 Facilitating Teacher positions. Today is the day we start exploring, in detail, this new options for teachers in terms of career paths. Facilitating Teachers will be expert teachers who have demonstrated a history of being highly effective with students and being highly effective collaborators with other staff... Continue Reading →
Pitt County Schools is excited to announce that 66 Facilitating Teacher (FT) vacancies have been awarded to schools across the county, to begin with the 2017-2018 School Year. These FTs will serve as teacher leaders who facilitating collaborative action research projects and lead communities of practice at their school. These vacancies are open to all... Continue Reading →
In our previous posts I introduced R3, including providing some historical context for the development of the initiative as well as some information on the first two elements of KeyBT and the Teacher Leadership Institute. Today we’ll look at the first of the new elements: The Career Pathways. Pitt County Schools developed Career Pathways to... Continue Reading →
In my previous posts I offered a general overview of the R3 Initiative as well as some historical context for where the ideas within the grant originated and how they were developed. In this post we’ll look more closely at the two elements that are already in place in PCS – and have been in... Continue Reading →
Pitt County Schools is excited to announce the first list of vacancies for Facilitating Teachers, the first differentiated pathway on our career pathway model. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsmCgAJdct4 The job description for Facilitating Teachers is available by clicking here. Currently, there are High School Facilitating Teacher positions posted at the PCS job vacancy listing under the TIF Grant,... Continue Reading →
For those who were here back in 2011, you might remember that North Carolina was a state recipient of the federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant. As part of that grant, PCS invested approximately $4 million over the four years of the grant in upgrading technology infrastructure, rolling out PLCs across the district, and... Continue Reading →
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