When it comes to North Carolinaâs new K-12 social studies standards, the Moore County Board of Education is divided between members who would leave implementation to the teachers and others who want to hold off for a year until they personally comb through the new curriculum.
School board members arenât typically part of the process in determining the substance of what is taught in classrooms. Nonetheless, that will be central to discussion of at least two items on the agenda for Mondayâs regular board meeting.
Moore County Schoolsâ curriculum and instruction staff will soon begin working with social studies teachers to build grade-level curricula and lesson plans based on new state standards aimed at incorporating the experiences of minorities and marginalized groups throughout history.
The Moore County Board of Education, fresh off a meeting that ended in a shouting match, kicked off an eight-hour work session on Monday with unanimous approval of the district’s
More than $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to Moore County Schools will cover wide-ranging expenses over the next three years: from activity buses and teacher assistants to new running tracks at Pinecrest and North Moore high schools.
Administrators told the school board on Tuesday that those needs and many others intersect with the directive to spend that money on preventing the transmission of COVID-19 and recovering from the pandemicâs effects over the last year.
The district has until May 7 to apply to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction with an outline of how it plans to use its coronavirus relief funds. The Moore County Board of Education got its first view of the proposed plan in a special meeting this week.
An otherwise productive discussion of how Moore County Schools plans to spend federal COVID-19 relief funding over the next three years adjourned in chaos Tuesday after Chair Libby Carter and Vice-Chair Pam Thompson accused board member Robert Levy of verbally âattackingâ students on a local conservative radio show.
Rather than allowing Levy to respond, Carter, Thompson and board members Ed Dennison and Stacey Caldwell voted to adjourn the meeting even as Levy and board members David Hensley and Philip Holmes clamored for discussion to continue.
A protest flyer circulated before Tuesday s meeting of the Moore County Board of Education
Hensley, Holmes, and Levy then left the boardroom to join a crowd of more than 50 demonstrators who had gathered in front of the districtâs central office in Carthage to protest student mask mandates and in-school vaccination clinics.
The love of learning has always been a driving force for Moore County Schoolsâ 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year.
The district announced New Century Middle School special education teacher Leah Bartramâs selection from a pool of 22 school-level honorees on Friday.
Bartram has been at New Century for eight years of her 12-year teaching career. Though sheâd already started her own family by the time she finished college and started that career, Bartram found opportunities to lead children toward new knowledge as a scouting leader and teacher assistant at her childrenâs school.
Since becoming a professional educator though, she has taken the lead in exploring new and better ways to help students with disabilities master basic skills and discover their personal strengths.