Following is a summary of the Board’s agendas, as released by the Department of Public Instruction.

 

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30: Planning and Work Session        

 

12:45 – 1:30 p.m.

Call to Order/Welcome/Opening Remarks

 

Review of State Board of Education Strategic Plan and Recommended Changes to Measures

 

Presentation of Operational Planning Tool

 

Overview of the Aspirational Goals and Staff Presentations

 

1:30 – 4:45 p.m.  Staff Presentations

 

1:30 p.m. – Professional Development and Technical Assistance – Rebecca Garland

 

2:15 p.m. – Digital Learning and Resource Development – Tracy Weeks

 

3 p.m. – Break

 

3:15 p.m. – Technology Support – Michael Nicolaides

 

4 p.m. – Funding Support, Compliance and Monitoring – Philip Price

 

5 p.m. – Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1: Planning and Work Session Continued

9 a.m.

 

Call to Order/Opening Remarks

 

9:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.  Budget Issues and Discussions

 

9:15 a.m. – Review of Race to the Top Sustainability Issues and Range of Options – Adam Levinson

 

10 a.m.  – Review of 2014-15 Budget and Review of 2015-17 Budget Request – Philip Price

 

10:45 a.m. – Break

 

11 a.m.  – Budget Discussion Continues

 

12:15 p.m. – Lunch

 

1:15 p.m.  – Budget Discussion Wrap-Up

 

1:45 – 3:45 p.m.  Legislative Agenda Discussion 

 

1:45 p.m.  – Legislative Agenda Discussion – Rachel Beaulieu and Zane Stilwell

 

3 p.m.  Break

 

3:15 p.m.  – Continuation of Legislative Agenda Discussion

 

3:45 p.m.  – Wrap-Up of Legislative Agenda Discussion

 

4:15 p.m.  – Planning and Work Session Debrief

 

4:45 p.m.  – Adjourn

 

 

THURSDAY, OCT. 2: October Board Meeting

9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

 

Following the Call to Order, Welcoming Remarks and the Pledge of Allegiance, Board members will recognize the Board for the NC School for the Deaf at Morganton. Members will then approve their September meeting minutes before taking up their Consent Agenda. Under the Consent Agenda, members will approve Career and Technical Education Revisions to Essential Standards, Changes to the 2013-14 Performance and Growth of North Carolina Public Schools Report, Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Report on Educational Performance of Children with Disabilities, Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Report on North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership, RttT Evaluation NC Teacher Corps Final Report: Impact, Qualitative Assessment and Policy Recommendations, RttT Evaluation and District and School Transformation School-Level Coaching and Professional Development Activities, Report to the NC General Assembly: NC State Board of Education Policy Initiatives in Recognition of Military Experience, Charter Amendment to Change the Mission Statement for Haliwa Saponi Tribal Charter School, State Board of Education Approval of DPI Prosperity Zone Liaisons and Voluntary Shared Leave Report by Local Education Agency – Fiscal Year 2013-14.

 

 

9:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

 

•  Globally Competitive Students Committee

 

State Board member Marcella Savage, chair; Olivia Oxendine, vice chair

 

Action items: Proposed Revisions to Grading Scale and Read to Achieve Local Alternative Assessments

 

Discussion item: Report to the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the First-Year Implementation of Read to Achieve Legislation

 

 

 

•  21st Century Professionals Committee

 

State Board member Olivia Oxendine, chair; John Tate, vice chair

 

Action items: Recommendations for Approval of Institutions of Higher Education Superintendent Licensure Programs, Global Educator Digital Badge Criteria for Teachers and Teacher Leadership Specialist Standards and Rubric Draft

 

Discussion items: Local Options for Measuring Student Growth and Requests for Waivers from North Carolina Final Exams and Analysis of Student Work

 

 

 

10:30 a.m.  Break

 

 

 

10:45 – 12 p.m.

 

•  21st Century Systems Committee

 

State Board member Greg Alcorn, chair; Kevin Howell, vice chair

 

Action items: Report to the North Carolina General Assembly on Agency Technology Plan, After-School Program Quality Improvement Grant Program, Transfer of Land Between Two Local Education Agencies and Using Race to the Top Funds to Help Define Classroom Wireless Needs

 

Discussion item: 2015-17 Biennial Budget Expansion Request 

 

New Business item: Update on Contracts

 

 

 

•  Leadership for Innovation Committee

 

State Board member Rebecca Taylor, chair; Wayne McDevitt, vice chair

 

Action items: Revision to State Board Policy TCS-U-013 Regarding the Planning Year for Charter Schools and Voluntary Relinquishment of the Concrete Roses STEM Academy Charter

 

 

 

12 p.m.  State Superintendent’s Report

 

 

 

12:15 p.m.  Chairman’s Remarks

 

 

 

12:30 p.m.  Board adjourns to closed session

 

 

 

12:55 p.m.  Board reconvenes then adjourns

 

​