CCS Staff In the Know

Help us welcome Dr. Shajuana Sellers to the Craven County Schools family. Dr. Sellers joins the team as the new Director of Secondary Education and will begin on Monday, May 23rd.

Dr. Shajuana H. Sellers comes to us from Washington County where she served as the Director of Human Resources. She has served as both an elementary and middle school principal, assistant principal at the middle school level, director of an alternative learning program, high school math teacher with additional duties as a volleyball, basketball, and track coach, and adjunct faculty member at the community college level.

She earned her Doctorate and Ed.S.from East Carolina University, her Masters of School Administration from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and her Bachelors of Math from UNC-Wilmington where she was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow.

Dr. Sellers is a wife of 23 years to Deablo Sellers. They are the proud parents of three sons, Montrez, De'Andre, and Da'Juan, and will soon welcome their first grandchild. She is an active member of Higher Level Ministries in Clinton.

She is excited to be a part of Craven County serving middle and high schools.

New Bern High School is Named AVID National Demonstration Site

Only a handful of schools around the world are offering their students the type of education that the teachers are providing at New Bern High School. A team representing Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) will award National Demonstration School status to New Bern High School on Thursday, May 19, 2022. This means that New Bern High School will serve as an AVID learning center so other schools across the nation can visit to see how the AVID program is implemented. AVID provides classroom activities, teaching practices, and academic behaviors that can be incorporated into any classroom to improve engagement and success for all students to become more college- and career-ready.

New Bern High is one of 217 schools recognized by AVID as a National Demonstration School. The Bears have been recognized as a Schoolwide Site of Distinction since 2018, meaning this community school holds the top two honors offered by AVID Center.

AVID serves over 2.2 million students in roughly 8,000 schools in 49 states and 16 countries. New Bern High, standing in the top 3% of all AVID schools worldwide, joins that international family as one of only seven National Demonstration Schools for AVID in North Carolina. It is the largest of the three high schools with that designation in North Carolina.

We celebrate New Bern High School with this prestigious recognition! Congratulations to the students and staff at New Bern High, AVID is integrated throughout the school and all classrooms, contributing to student academic success.

UPDATE FROM FINANCE

Low Wealth Bonus

The NC state budget provided funding in PRC 071, Supplemental Funds for Teacher Compensation, to eligible school districts to provide salary supplements to K-12 teachers and instructional support staff.

This means that eligible staff are school based staff that are paid from the legislative certified teachers salary scale and include K-12 teachers, guidance counselors, psychologists, and media.

This supplement is considered compensation for retirement contribution purposes. The local Board of Education is responsible for approving the distribution of the funds. On May 17, 2022, the Craven County Board of Education approved the following:

K-12 teachers and instructional support personnel will receive a supplement of $825 in June 2022.
The employee must still be employed on May 31, 2022, to receive the payment.

Since the funding allotment may change, the amount of the supplement may change from year to year depending on the funds provided by the state budget.

New INTEL Teach Courses in NCEES

Are you looking for DLC credits?

The Digital Teaching and Learning Division has updated and added new Intel Teach Elements courses, and they are now available through NCEES. These courses are designed for classroom teachers, administrators, and support personnel, and cover many different topics.

These courses are self-paced, and credit is awarded upon successful completion. Contact Lauren Boucher (Lauren.Boucher@dpi.nc.gov) with questions.

Click for PDF with Registration Links then click Register link for each course.

Click Here to Apply

NCBOLD - Save the Dates!

The division of Digital Teaching and Learning (DTL) is excited to announce its new iteration of NCBOLD for this summer. Previously NCBOLD had been a virtual professional learning opportunity for public school educators throughout North Carolina.

For the summer of 2022, NCBOLD will be hosted at the following locations. Registration will open later this spring for each region.

Craven Cyber Smarts May Resources

This month’s theme is Positive Communication and Relationships.

Please use this link to learn more!

NEW: Change to Arts Ed Graduation Requirement Coming 2022

SL2020-78 Section 2.5 states that in addition to existing graduation requirements, NC students will need to complete one credit in an arts discipline (visual arts, music theater arts, and dance) between sixth and twelfth grade. This begins with students starting sixth grade in the fall of 2022 and all classes thereafter (including students fulfilling the OCS Graduation Requirements).

Locally developed courses will not apply toward the Arts Ed Graduation Requirements. Only those courses which teach the entire Standard Course of Study in an Arts Ed subject would satisfy the requirement. There are no requirements about the length or duration of a course, but it must teach the entire SCOS in Arts Ed.

For more information, click here.

2022 Growing Success for Multilingual Learners

Summer Conference

From Standards to Success | June 20- 24, 2022

The NCDPI ESL/Title III Team invites ALL educators of Multilingual Learners (MLs) to participate in the Growing Success for MLs Summer Conference. During this summer’s conference, educators will have an opportunity to think deeply about the 2020 NC ELD Standard Course of Study (SCOS); to reimagine instruction through new ELD resources; and to exchange SCOS implementation ideas that center the needs and achievement of MLs.

In order to address how opportunities presented by the 2020 NC ELD SCOS can be both understood and actualized for MLs, the 2022 Growing Success for MLs Summer Conference will center around the theme: From Standards to Success.

This year’s conference has been designed for a virtual environment. The NCDPI ESL/Title III Team hopes the virtual format will allow educators to minimize the disruptions to their day-to-day responsibilities and minimize time away from family and friends. To combat online fatigue, the NCDPI ESL/Title III team put together a program that spans five days with sessions running for two hours. The 2022 Growing Success for MLs Summer Conference is anchored by a professional learning series organized by educator role. Participants may register to attend any of the sessions from the four pathways below:

ESL Specialists/EL Lead Teachers: those who provide professional development, curate or develop materials for ESL classes, and/or have administrative duties as well as educational duties
ESL Teachers: Those who work predominantly in the classroom with MLs on language development
Content Area Teachers: Those who work predominantly in the classroom with MLs and non-MLs on subject areas, such as ELA, science, math, social studies, ARTS, etc.
Multifaceted Roles: Those who serve in two or more of the above roles

Title I Planning Surveys

Please take a moment and fill out the Title I Survey to help us plan for

the 2022-2023 school year.

Title I Stakeholder Survey

May Transition Community Resource Forum

Zoom Link: https://cravenk12.zoom.us/j/3677810162

Speakers include:

Eddie Foster- Craven Community College VOLT Center

Anna Ward & Kenneth Kelty-Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Post-Secondary Education Alliance

Apply to be a Part of the 2022-2023 Rural Teacher Leadership Cohort

The Public School Forum of North Carolina is excited to announce that the 2022 -2023 Rural Teacher Leader Network (RTLN) Cohort applications are now LIVE!

The Rural Teacher Leader Network is designed to bring together diverse groups of educators across North Carolina who seek to strengthen their practice, foster community with teacher leaders from across other rural districts, and develop their own leadership capacity in order to guide other teachers in their schools. The network aims to create a strong and lasting community of rural educators with a focus on equity, trauma-informed practice, global education, and teacher leadership.

For more information, go to https://www.ncforum.org/rtln/

Click Here For Clinical Teacher Registration

New Bern High School's Project Unify is excited to announce that this year's Talent Show will be FREE for everyone. Project Unify is making it FREE because we are excited about being on stage and live this year.

2022 CCS CTE Externship Experience Opportunity

Craven County Career and Technical Education received a grant to provide an opportunity for middle school and high school teachers, counselors, and administrators to participate in a week-long externship this summer. This is an opportunity for educators to learn about and work in local industry, and then bring that knowledge and real-world experience back to the school and the classroom to better prepare and guide our students.

If you choose to participate in this experience and complete the requirements, an $875 stipend is provided along with daily mileage reimbursement up to a specified amount.

The available weeks for the externship are June 27-July 1, 2022 or July 11-15, 2022. (Each participant will choose one week). The first day of the externship will be an orientation held at The Volt Center in New Bern, and then participants will spend four days at their externship site.

The participating companies are: Bosch, Moen, FRC-East, Chatsworth, Wirthwein (Carolina Technical Plastics), Dradura USA Corp, Chamber of Commerce - Havelock, NC Works, City of New Bern, and Smithfield Premium Genetics.

If you are interested in participating, complete the application HERE. The application period will close Friday, May 27, 2022. This is a first-come, first-serve opportunity, so apply early!

Contact Holly Tolston, CTE Director, for more information.

Tryon Palace Programs

The Tryon Palace calendar of events can be found at www.tryonpalace.org

Great Summer PD Opportunity for Teachers

This summer, North Carolina Business Committee for Education (NCBCE) is partnering with Epic to provide 40 hours of professional development and support for 100 NC teachers. They will have 4 in-person regional sessions for 8 hours followed by virtual sessions and coaching. Teachers must go through an application process for the program, and the ones that attend the May 24th meeting will get the first chance to apply. NCBCE is excited to provide this incredible PD opportunity to NC teachers.

Please click here to register:

Epic Educator Leader Interesting Meeting Registration

The K-2 Math Assessment and Scoring Summary should be completed by June 8. Please contact your District or School Learning Systems Coach if you have any questions.

The assessment window for students in Grades K-12 is now open. Here is a list of the assessments that need to be completed by grade level and content area.

Kindergarten (Math)

Number Naming Fluency

Quantity Total Fluency

Quantity Difference Fluency

Concepts and Applications

First Grade (Math)

Concepts and Applications

Number Comparison Fluency-Pairs

Math Facts Fluency - One Digit

Math Facts Fluency - Tens

Math Grades 2-12 (EC students only in Grades 9-12)

Concepts and Applications