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.
Resources and Suggestions Captured During Session
The recommendations shared during the Education Session by presenters and members of Class XXVIII are captured on the pages linked below.
XXVIII Education Session Resource Recommendations from Presenters and Class Members
Class XXVIII Suggests:
Also, be sure to check out the Session Presentations page for presenters’ slide decks and a compilation of comments captured during the Education session.
Session Homework–Required
Please explore the following links before joining the December session.
Session Resources–Recommended Before Session
The following links are resources recommended by session presenters, planning committee members, and past LNC speakers. 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. After the session be sure to check out the Education Session Presentations page for slides presented during session and additional resource recommendations from presenters and class members.
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
BEST NC Resources
- BEST NC Facts and Figures
- BEST NC Per Pupil Expenditures Dashboard Tool
- BEST NC YouTube Channel
- TeachNC–Teacher Recruitment
- Advanced Teaching Roles–Creating teaching leadership opportunities that support developing teachers
- Transforming Principal Preparation–Nash County participates in the NELA version of this program
- BEST NC Video–The Difference Between Growth and Achievement
Early Childhood Education
- NC Early Childhood Foundation
- “Shared Measures of Success to Put North Carolina’s Children on a Pathway to Grade-Level Reading”
- “Pathways to Grade-Level Reading Action Framework,” NC Early Childhood Foundation
- “The First 2000 Days” video
- NC Early Childhood Action Plan (NCDHHS)
- Early Childhood Resources from NCDHHS
- How the Early Childhood Action Plan Was Developed
- Leading on Opportunity Report–Early Care and Education
- Charlotte Bilingual Preschool Parent Child+ Video
Additional Resources on the Leandro Case
- Public School Forum of North Carolina Leandro Background and Resources
- “WestEd’s Leandro Report: The Missing Pages” (article by LNC alumnus David Cooper)
- Interview with Judge Howard E. Manning Jr.
Higher Education
- NCICU Map
- NCICU Fact Card
- Op Ed by Dr. Hope Williams of NCICU
- A&T State University
- NC Community Colleges
- UNC System
Impacts of COVID
- COVID-19 and student learning in the United States: The hurt could last a lifetime (June 1, 2020)
- How do school shutdowns affect student achievement gaps? (July 2, 2020)
Piedmont Triad Resources
Additional Resource Suggestions
- Urban Institute Interactive Maps
- EdNC
- “Meet Dudley Flood, Champion of Desegregation in North Carolina,” WUNC
- Tar Heel Teachers
- Revisionist History: Malcolm Gladwell Episode on School Integration
- “Virtual Color of Education Event Builds from Hope to a Call for Action”
- ABC 11 Special: “The Racial Divide: Inequity in Education”
