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North Carolina Virtual: Professional Development Course for Teaching Online (Syllabus)

The TOT1 (Teacher Online Training), “An Introduction to Online Teaching and Content Development,” is a free professional development course for North Carolina public and charter school teachers offered through North Carolina Virtual Public School (NC Virtual), the state’s virtual school launched in 2007. The self-paced course is designed to prepare educators for teaching in online and remote learning environments. The syllabus demonstrates the content covered in the course and the progression of the program.

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February 9, 2023

Next Generation Accountability: Creating Performance Frameworks for Student Success

This issue brief explores how policymakers can approach rethinking, redesigning, and rearchitecting next generation accountability systems.

Next generation accountability systems can empower states, districts, communities, and schools with timely, relevant information and provide the capacity to analyze and continuously improve instruction and learning.

After 21 years of the current accountability framework in federal and state policy in the United States, there is growing recognition that it isn’t working for our students, families, and communities to improve teaching and learning, nor preparing them for the future.

Continuously improving education systems use evidence-based practices and performance frameworks to improve learning and monitor progress in real time. In response to ongoing feedback and data, they drive change to improve and evolve practice. Continuously improving systems evolve culture and structures to ensure that students get the supports they need in real time to support growth and success.

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January 20, 2023

Forum Guide to Attendance, Participation, and Engagement Data in Virtual and Hybrid Learning Models

This resource was produced the National Forum on Education Statistics:

“This resource is intended to address the needs of federal, state, and local agencies related to

  • operationally defining attendance, participation, and engagement within different learning models;
  • collecting attendance, participation, and engagement data in virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning models; and
  • addressing challenges related to attendance data during a crisis.”
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January 20, 2023

Teacher Creativity Survey 2.0

This survey intends to help leaders understand teachers’ beliefs about creativity as well as their perceptions about their instructional practices to develop students’ beliefs, knowledge, and skills about creativity.

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October 12, 2022
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