[…]and energy from all three Institute partners and through the generosity of private funders and community partners. Charlotte Teachers Institute earned the Council of Great City Schools Urban Impact Award (2013) for partnership and impact on student learning. Led by classroom teachers in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) and professors at UNC Charlotte and Johnson C. […]
[…]and have four priorities: community, curriculum with coherence, climate, and character.[i] Teachers are encouraged to be leaders and accept ownership and empowerment in the overall direction of the school, in addition to individual classrooms. We have the freedom to be the professionals we have been trained to be and are […]
[…]organisms such as insects and beavers? The overall goal of this seminar is to gain an appreciation for and to ask questions about the ecology and biodiversity of streams in our urban environment. While we will use the City of Charlotte as our research example, the skills and knowledge learned […]
[…]concept of the one was discussed as it related to the denominator. The importance of the denominator and why when fractions are added or subtracted they have to have a common denominator as well as the fact that the denominator does not change during addition or subtraction was discussed. The […]
[…]of such writers as Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhabuti, Naomi Long, Margaret Walker and Amiri Baraka, and plays by Ed Bullins and August Wilson as we will explore the ways in which literature and politics of intersected. Explore curriculum units developed by Fellows in this seminar here. Participating […]
[…]to disturbing and viewing bodies after they have been laid to rest. “I find Americans to be uncomfortable with the idea of death compared to other cultures, and this discomfort with the inevitable life event brings in topics of death, afterlife, religion and more,” Cho says. “The Value of Archaeological […]
[…]one of the segment’s endpoints and the slope you just calculated and plug into point-slope form [ ] to get the equation of the segment. Repeat these steps for each segment of each letter. Think about the constraints on each of these equations. i. Are you drawing the entire line […]
[…]what the variables stand for in the algebraic expressions. The students will learn and be able to complete inverses of addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. The student then will be able to take their favorite team scores and create new combinations of how their team could have won or lost the game […]
[…]seminar will focus on women in public office in the United States with a concentration on barriers to candidacy. We will draw on the current literature, statistics and personal stories. We will also touch on the broader importance of descriptive representation and how it leads to substantive […]
[…]has two computer labs as well as a media center that has a class set of computers, so access to computers is hardly ever a problem. I am a full time sixth grade language arts teacher responsible for the instruction of 92 students. I work in an inclusive school, […]