This has the potential to be awesome, but ONLY if local *teachers* are involved from the ground up. The potential for lab schools at Early Colleges alone is amazing. A teacher-designed teacher prep program would be https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer"> https://twitter.com/leahsuttonnc/status/1298434861569646593">https://twitter.com/leahsutto...

Also, Piedmont Voices Writing Project (co-housed at UNC-G and a community college) needs to be a model of PD for faculty. We need Writing Projects to be deeply involved in imagining this. Reach out to UNC-Charlotte and Tar River WPs too.

And this means the state has to be recommitted to funding teacher prep and commit to funding Writing Project sites. If it doesn’t do that, then this will be seen as an effort to deprofessionalize teacher prep.

@teachNCorg @BESTNCorg #nced

Also, this means funding *specifically* for writing centers at community colleges. Want to train thoughtful teachers of writing? Staff a writing center.

If, however, it’s just a degree program, then it’s an unfunded mandate that will ultimately do little to improve teacher prep in NC, and serves mainly a public relations purpose.

And if that’s all it is, folks are leaving PD for veteran teachers and a chance to *truly* democratize both PD and teacher prep on the table, which, sadly, is par for the course.

Plenty of NC educators have C & I Master’s degrees, which qualify them to work at the CC level. Put these folks to work locally, and watch them fly.