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Save the Date!Join us December 4-6 at the Grandover Resort & Conference Center in Greensboro for the Superintendents' Winter Leadership Conference.
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NCSSA will be traveling across the state to update our local RESAs and their members. We look forward to seeing you soon!
NWRESA | August 14
Sandhills RESA | September 13
SERESA | October 17
NERESA | November 7
CCRESA | December 12
WRESA | December 13
SWRESA | January 10
PTEC | April 3
"Love per Square Foot" with NCSSA & Moseley Architects
Through the North Carolina Academy to Envision Tomorrow's Schools, many of the state's best teachers teamed up with architects and designers to imagine how K-12 facilities might deliver more student-centered and community engaged learning. Click here to read more.
Interested in speaking at NCASA's Annual Conference on Leadership? NCASA has launched their formal Request for Proposals for breakout session speakers at the 2020 Conference on Educational Leadership. Proposals will be accepted through Friday, October 25. Click here for more information! For the latest news and registration (coming soon!) visit www.ncasa.net/conference.
Camden Dillard was a husband, father and a man of great ambition. He was an administrator in the child nutrition department in the Rockingham County school system and a senior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he was enrolled in his last class to earn his Bachelor of Science degree, but then tragedy struck.
In July, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. Because of his illness, he was unable to complete his last class. His supervisor Erselle Young got an idea after visiting Camden in his hospital room at Wake Forest Baptist. She asked the superintendent of Rockingham County Schools, Dr. Rodney Shotwell, to intervene and ask UNCG to waive Camden’s last class and award him his diploma.
"I wanted Cam to know that he graduated before he passed, but the big piece is I wanted his kids to be able to see what their dad was able to do ... when you see somebody that things are going well for, be the person to make the difference because you never know the impact that it's going to have."
The North Carolina Alliance for School Leadership Development (NCASLD) and the North Carolina School Superintendents' Association (NCSSA) has announced the selection of Dr. Ron Hargrave, Superintendent of Scotland County Schools, as the recipient of the Dr. Brad Sneeden Leadership Award. The award was presented on Sunday, June 23 at the NCSSA Superintendents' Summer Leadership Retreat in Asheville and is awarded in honor and recognition of a superintendent who has demonstrated a strong commitment to life-long learning, unwavering integrity in leadership and transformation of vision into action.
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The N.C. Center for Safer Schools is accepting applications for the 2019-2020 School Safety Grant Program until next Friday, October 25. The purpose of the School Safety Grants Program is to improve safety in public school units by providing grants for school resource officers, services for students in crisis, school safety training, safety equipment in schools, and additional school mental health support personnel. Interested public-school units should review the criteria set forth by the grant review committee, and submit their applications no later than Oct. 25 at 11:59 P.M. Applications can be found on the CCIP grants management system at ccip.schools.nc.gov.
Despite October being the designated month to celebrate hardworking school principals across the nation, many principals in North Carolina may be disappointed to learn they will not receive their expected performance bonuses this month, as the state budget impasse continues. North Carolina law allows certain funding to continue at the previous year’s levels absent a state budget; however, principal bonuses are not covered under that continuation-budget authority and must be approved by lawmakers each year. In a School Business Newsletter sent last week, Department of Public Instruction (DPI) staff noted, “No performance bonuses for principals are authorized at this time, and School Business will not be providing an allotment unless legislative authority is provided.” Bonuses for veteran teachers, as well as salary step increases expected on July 1, 2019, have also been put on hold indefinitely.
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a bill providing calendar flexibility and compensation authorization for Ocracoke School, which experienced unprecedented damage during Hurricane Dorian in early September. The bill was unanimously passed a day after Governor Cooper received notice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), stating his request for Individual Assistance for Hurricane Dorian victims had been denied.
FAST NC, a bipartisan group formed to provide aid to students and teachers in the wake of Hurricane Florence, has opened a final round of grant applications for Florence-impacted schools, as well as an opening round of applications for schools impacted by Hurricane Dorian. Both of these applications, which can be accessed on the FASTNC webpage, are due by October 18, 2019.
