Session Workbook
Your Education session workbook can be found through the link below. Explore the workbook in advance and make sure you have it accessible throughout the Education session.
Session Homework–Required
Please explore the following links before joining the December session.
- International Civil Rights Center and Museum Concept Primer
- Legal Aid Fact Sheets
Required County Data Profiles Exercise Homework
Each class member has been assigned to a group to explore a county data profile for a small-group exercise on Wednesday. Use the links below to find your group assignment and access your group’s profile.
All county profiles can be found at myFutureNC County Data and Resources
Consider exploring myFutureNC Local Educational Attainment Collaboratives as an additional resource.
Required “Book Club” Homework
Each class member has been assigned a topic and corresponding articles for the “Book Club” segment on Thursday. Use the link below to find your assigned group and links to your articles. Everyone should feel free to explore articles outside their assigned topic as well!
Session Resources–Recommended Prior to Session
The following links are resources that were recommended by session presenters, planning committee members, and past LNC speakers prior to the December 2021 session. Unless noted otherwise these are not required, but exploring those that interest you will enrich your experience both during and after the December Education Session.
International Civil Rights Center and Museum Recommendations
- International Civil Rights Center and Museum
- Greensboro Sit-In from the History Channel
- Facing History and Ourselves
- “Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now”, PBS
- “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,” PBS
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
- “What Was Jim Crow,” Ferris State University
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- Civil Rights Movement Timeline from the History Channel
- “The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s” from the National Humanities Center
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Early Childhood Education
- A Guide to COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development
- Build Back Better Guide for Policymakers: Early Childhood Education
- The Future of Early Childhood Education After COVID-19
- The True Cost of High-Quality Child Care Across the United States
- How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America
- Can Democrats Fix “the Most Broken Business in America?”
- North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation Family Voices Report Executive Summary
- The State of Latino Education in Mecklenburg County: Conclusions Summary
- Ascend at the Aspen Institute: “The 2Gen Approach”
- Children’s Equity Project: “Start with Equity: 14 Priorities to Dismantle Systemic Racism in Early Care and Education”
- Migration Policy Institute: North Carolina’s Immigrant and US-Born Parents of Young and Elementary-School-Age Children
- Missed Opportunities: Latino Early Childhood Education Enrollment in Mecklenburg
The Leandro Case
- Public School Forum of North Carolina Leandro Background and Resources
- Everything You Need to Know About the Leandro Litigation–EdNC
- Interview with Judge Howard E. Manning Jr.
Higher Education
- NCICU Map
- NCICU Fact Card
- Op Ed by Dr. Hope Williams of NCICU
- NC Community Colleges
- UNC System
- Wingate University
- Winston-Salem State University
Piedmont Triad Resources
Additional Resource Suggestions
- From Trip Stallings
- Urban Institute Interactive Maps
- EdNC
- Tar Heel Teachers
- myFutureNC Resources
Session Resources–Recommended During Session
The following resources were mentioned by presenters or shared by LNC participants during the December 2021 session.
International Civil Rights Center and Museum Session
Wednesday and Thursday Programming
- Adverse Childhood Experiences–CDC
- North Carolina’s Leaky Educational Pipeline & Pathways to 60% Postsecondary Attainment
- myFutureNC FAFSA Tracker
- DRIVE Task Force continues work on equity and educator support — even as its expiration date looms
- NC STRIDE
- Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools partnership with Winston-Salem State University
- Gender and Pay Inequity in Child Care Field
- In limbo: A longtime child care provider wonders what’s next
- The Fading American Dream
- CDA Credentialing Program FAQs
- Working Together So Children Thrive
- Camino Health Center
- How will the pandemic shape K-12 education in North Carolina?
- NC DPI Research Data Requests
- North Carolina Education Research Data Center
- The Self-Sufficiency Standard for North Carolina
- Self-Sufficiency Standard
- Can Biden expose the ‘college is for everyone’ fantasy?
- Dominion Energy Educational Equity Scholarship Program
- Careers at Blue Cross NC
- The Women Behind the Name
- Unleashing and Upskilling Untapped Genius
- “You have to be half nuts.” Why would anyone want to be a school board member?
myFutureNC Supplemental Resources
- County Attainment Profiles
- County Explorer | NC Educational Attainment Dashboard | MyFutureNC
- Here is the our Educational Attainment Report we submitted to the General Assembly in Sept, and here is the Executive Summary.
- Here you can find high level summaries of our various strands of work underway.
- Class members can see the Local Collaboratives underway for their area of the state.
- Here is an EdNC article that provides an overview of the adult learner pilots that took place this summer. The cohort was expanded to 5 additional colleges recently, and there was $2M in the budget to expand the work as well.
- Governor’s Task Force to increase the diverse teacher pipeline https://governor.nc.gov/issues/education/drive-task-force
- BEST NC Teacher retention and recruitment Innovation Lab session recordings, slides, and additional resources are now live at: www.bestnc.org/ncedlab2021
- Facts and Figures – BEST NC
