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Educators in the Mountain to Sea professional development place-based learning institute show off their cardboard city

Dec 15, 2025

Mountains to Sea Explores Environmental Learning

RALEIGH, N.C.⸺On an overcast afternoon last December, 18 K-12 educators from eastern North Carolina and two pre-service undergrads from N.C. State University’s College of Education gathered outside the Walnut Creek Wetland Center to build a model of a climate-resilient city using cardboard, egg cartons and other recyclable materials. This exercise marked the conclusion of a semester-long professional…
Butterfly on a flower

Dec 15, 2025

NC Teachers breathe new life into lessons through STEMwork

Hendersonville Middle School teacher Jill Jackson finds math problems in unexpected places. Consider the southern migration of the Monarch butterfly. Jackson turned their annual journey across North America into a seventh-grade math lesson about integers. Using project-based learning (PBL), Jackson’s students traced the latitude and longitude coordinates of Monarch butterflies as they migrated to Mexico.…
Trey Nichols teaches a lesson STEM concepts in clean energy

Dec 15, 2025

NC Teachers Bring Energy Science to Life

RALEIGH, N.C.⸺Pitt County Schools STEM Educator Jason Wade injected a dash of drama when he implemented his middle grades Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit on renewable energy as part of his fellowship this past spring.  Wade recruited a fellow educator from his 2023-24 Kenan Fellows cohort to act as a representative from a fictional renewable energy…
Kenan Fellows participate in professional development during the Summer Institute

Dec 15, 2025

NC Teachers Inspired and Rejuvenated After Summer PD

CULLOWHEE, N.C. — Surrounded by the picturesque North Carolina mountains, 29 teachers from across the state gathered in late June for a week that promised and delivered professional growth and a sense of belonging. The 2025–26 cohort of the Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership gathered June 23–27, 2025, at the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) for…
Tammy Hedgepeth and her industry mentor team at Astemo, Ltd

Dec 15, 2025

Edgecombe Teacher Learns Inner Workings of Astemo

Tammy Hedgepeth, a digital literacy coach at Princeville Elementary School in Edgecombe County, got an insider look into the inner workings of Astemo, Ltd. Below, Hedgepeth discusses her summer industry immersion experience in her own words. The N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) is supporting her fellowship, which focuses on integrating computational thinking and computer…