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Kenan Fellows Christine Mitchell, Ed.D. and Kumar Sathy worked wtih Teaching Fellows at NC as part of their fellowship.

Apr 6, 2026

New Partnership Between Kenan Fellows and Teaching Fellows at NC State Connects Veteran and Future Teachers

RALEIGH, N.C. ⸺ Before most North Carolina Teaching Fellows at NC State step into their own classrooms, they will have new opportunities to explore what a long, sustainable teaching career can look like, thanks to a new partnership between the Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership and Teaching Fellows at NC State. Starting this spring,…
Christine Sudzina Schut looks through a microscope at a UNC Chapel Hill lab

Dec 15, 2025

Fruit fly unit sparks curiosity in science

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.⸺Over six weeks, students in Christine Sudzina Schut’s classroom at Culbreth Middle School with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools observed the life cycle of fruit flies through stereoscopes. The seventh-graders learned the research lab technique of inducing a chill coma in fruit flies for observation. They recorded their observations in data tables and discussed how environmental…
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…