NCDPI Holds 8 Town hall Meetings
From: State Superintendent June Atkinson...
This is an important opportunity for you to participate in Town Hall meetings
across the State & share your ideas on preparing K-12 students for the
21st Century. Please share this information with others in your schools
& plan to attend a Town Hall Meeting in your community!
The NC Department of Public Instruction is holding eight regional town
hall-style meetings in November and December to raise awareness of the
State Board of Education's new Future Ready/21st Century mission and
goals and to gather input from you and your communities about how to
measure schools' success in meeting the goals and challenges of
21st century learning.
In holding these meetings, we hope to reach school board members,
central office administrators, principals, teachers, and parents,
especially individuals who serve on school improvement teams. School
districts are encouraged to send at least a core group that will be
representative of the these groups. Pre-registration is not required,
but check-in for each event will begin 45 minutes before the meeting
starts.
As a part of the input session, the following three questions will be
considered.
1. How will our schools need to change to be future ready?
2. What are the barriers to changing our schools to be future ready?
3. How will we know that our students/graduates are future ready?
The PDF files contain the revised Download file and Download file
schedule for the meeting and the State Board of Education's new goals.
Feel free to post and/or distribute these for your school communities.
Please note that the first meeting is Nov. 28. A date for the Region 6
meeting will be announced via email once it is set.
I encourage you to come prepared to share your ideas regarding these
three questions as well as other topics related to preparing our
students for the 21st century.
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