Common Core and Essential Standards Regional Summer Institutes:

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is pleased to announce the kickoff of the Common Core and Essential Standards Regional Summer Institutes.  These two- day summer institutes are blended professional development (PD) opportunities for district-level and charter school teams to gain an understanding of the transition from the current Standard Course of Study to the new Common Core and Essential Standards for all content areas, which will be implemented during the 2012-13 school year.  

For more information, please visit http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/profdev/  or

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/conferences/summerinstitutes/

For questions about your local team structure or to request participation on the district-level team, please contact your local Race to the Top Coordinator.  For questions about the team structure or to request participation on the Charter School team, please contact your school lead administrator.