literacy

Nov 6, 2018

Case Study: HillRAP – Research-Based Program in the Context of Local Schools

Hill Learning Center, an education nonprofit serving K-12 educators and students, helps students with learning differences and attention challenges become confident, independent learners. 

Oct 18, 2018

Analysis Detects No State-Level Impacts for ‘Read to Achieve’ Initiative

Students exposed to Read to Achieve program show no difference in reading mastery. 

Oct 3, 2018

Michael Bonner Speaks at New Literacies Collaborative Fall Symposium

South Greenville Elementary School teacher Michael Bonner was the featured speaker at this year’s New Literacies Collaborative Fall Symposium on Thursday, September 27, at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.… 

Aug 22, 2018

NC State Education Assistant Professor Helps Juntos 4-H Students Publish Book of Personal Narratives

Started as an initial project among NC State College of Education Assistant Professor Crystal Chen Lee, Juntos NC State Extension Program Director Juana Hernandez-Urquiza, and Wake County Coordinator Beatriz Velazquez, The Roots… 

Aug 16, 2018

Learning to Address Global Issues through International Collaboration and Inquiry

NC State Education faculty and staff traveled with 15 Wake STEM Early College High School students to China for the first PBI-Global Student Summit this past spring. The summit provided a venue for students from North Carolina to collaborate with 20 students at the Suzhou North America High School to create solutions for world problems. 

Aug 14, 2018

Juntos 4-H Students Publish a Book on Latinx Immigrant and First-Generation Experiences

The Roots of Our People: From One World to Another, Juntos started as an initial project among NC State Assistant Professor of English Education, Dr. Crystal Lee, Juntos NC State Extentsion Program… 

Aug 3, 2018

Improving Education in Kenya through the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute

This summer, three NC State College of Education faculty members and one alumna traveled to Kenya as part of the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute (NLI) to equip 60 Kenyan educators… 

Jan 29, 2018

College of Education, Triangle Literacy Council Team Up to Publish YouthBuild’s “Blueprints”

The Triangle Literacy Council recently released Blueprints: Rebuilding Lives and Redesigning Futures, a collection of works by the first cohort of students of the Bull City YouthBuild. Student Press Initiative… 

Jan 12, 2018

New MOOC-Ed Courses Open for Spring 2018

Free high-quality online courses for educators are now open for the Spring 2018 session, which starts on February 5. The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation is offering six Massive Open… 

Nov 10, 2017

A Graveyard Tour by Shiyu Zheng

Even jade is shattered, Even gold is crushed, Even quetzal plume are torn . . . One does not live forever on this earth: We endure only for an instant!…