Centers, Initiatives, & Public Engagement

DREAM

DREAM — the Diverse and Resilient Educators Advised through Mentorship teacher residency program — is a collaboration between the UNC School of Education and Durham Public Schools (DPS) to recruit, train, and support highly effective, responsive, transformative, and committed educators to serve the diverse DPS student population. Made possible by a $4.8 million U.S. Department of Education grant, DREAM prepares participating MAT students and provides them with three years of unique on-the-job guided mentorship to help ensure an effective and meaningful career as a DPS educator.

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Pathway to Practice North Carolina

Pathway to Practice NC is a collaboration with North Carolina State University that is designed to help people who have been hired to teach in North Carolina schools and need to complete their teaching certification. North Carolina teachers with a temporary license can clear their Provisional Teaching License through our online program. Admissions is ongoing, and you can start anytime.

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Carolina Center for Educational Excellence

The Carolina Center for Educational Excellence (CCEE) provides workshops, seminars, Internet-supported demonstrations, graduate classes and other opportunities for study to improve learning environments for students in pre-school through 12th grade, university students and the professionals who support them. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the CCEE facility includes flexible classroom space, ample room for seminars and conferences, a NASA-supported science and mathematics teaching laboratory and a school counseling and psychology clinic.

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North Carolina Education Futures Initiative

The North Carolina Education Futures Initiative (NCEFI) is a multi-disciplinary initiative that is data-driven, evidence-based, policy-focused, and action-oriented. NCEFI brings together community partners and faculty affiliates with expertise in education policy and rigorous research methods from across academic disciplines — including education, public policy, economics, and sociology — to identify, answer questions, and develop programs that are critically important to North Carolina’s efforts to improve educational opportunity and economic development.

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