professional learning

Jan 24, 2019

Spring 2019 MOOC-Eds Now Open for Registration

Free high-quality online courses for educators are now open for registration for the Spring 2019 session, which starts on February 5. The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation is offering five… 

Jan 2, 2019

Blended Learning That Connects Teachers, Students and Parents around Learning Differences

Part 1 of the Friday’s Institute’s insights on effective blended learning to understand learning differences.  

Oct 9, 2018

Friday Institute for Educational Innovation Announces Commitment to Computer Science Education at 2018 CSforALL Summit

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation announced a commitment today to expand their professional learning programs and their Massive Open Online Courses for Educators as part of the second annual CSforALL Summit. The commitment will reach 500 teachers in 50 North Carolina schools districts and 1,500 educators throughout the US and around the world in 2018-2019. 

Oct 1, 2018

Community Outreach for Statistics Education

The goal of the HI-RiSE team is to help create positive, effective statistics education environments in a variety of ways. One of the ways the team tries to reach this… 

Sep 5, 2018

New $1.8 Million NSF Grant to Support NC State Education Project on Math Teacher Preparation

Hollylynne Lee, professor and university faculty scholar at the NC State College of Education, will use the grant to continue her team’s work on improving the way preservice mathematics teachers prepare to enter their classrooms, specifically how to utilize students’ mathematical thinking in technology-rich environments. 

Aug 20, 2018

Summer Adventures for Computer Science For All in NC

Our CS4ALL team, initially funded by NC State’s Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP), has worked together this summer to develop a diverse range of professional learning opportunities, research, funding, partnerships, and policy recommendations… 

Aug 14, 2018

HI-RiSE Team Attends ICOTS10 in Kyoto, Japan

The 10th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10) was held July 8th – 13th, 2018 in Kyoto, Japan. ICOTS is hosted by the IASE, the International Association for Statistics Education.… 

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… 

May 28, 2018

Ruijie He Shared His Experience as a Visiting Doctoral Student from China

The HI-RiSE team was excited to welcome Ruijie He on to the team in August 2017. Ruijie is a doctoral student in mathematics education of East China Normal University, and… 

May 8, 2018

HIRiSE Team at NCTM 2018 Research and Annual Conference

All members of the HIRiSE team were able to attend the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Conference in Washington D.C. this April. NCTM has two back to back…