I want to thank the Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education for allowing me to travel to the eight regions as the teacher representative. A special thank you also to the teacher representatives who have attended or will attend one of the READY regional outreach meetings underway across North Carolina this month. We began in Greensboro on Feb. 28 where nearly 800 teacher representatives, principals and other central office staff met with NCDPI and State Board of Education leadership. This week, we are in Elizabeth City, Wilmington and Fayetteville then on to Raleigh, Hickory, Charlotte and Asheville. My message in each region is that the teacher evaluation tool is our blue print as we are growing to greatness. Education is not broken the challenge before us is to remodel and update our system of public schools to meet student needs today and in the future. Thanks to Race to the Top funding, we do have some resources to help us move our remodeling project more quickly than we could have done otherwise.NC DPI has posted the materials and PowerPoint slides online for you to see at www.ncpublicschools.org/ready. In the next few weeks, video segments of the Raleigh regional meeting will be available too, and we'll advertise the link at that time. Let's do what is best for children always!
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