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BEST NC's Strategic Thinking is Helping the State Transform the Teaching Profession.

BEST NC engages with a wide range of stakeholders from across NC around various research and analytic endeavors in order to build consensus toward a shared vision of academic and educational success for the state’s educators and their students.

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North Carolina Counts on Math (NCCOM): Designing a Shared K-5 Vision for Math (2026)

BEST NC, partnering with Watershed Advisors, convened the North Carolina Counts on Math (NCCOM) working group consisting of a cross-section of state and local mathematics…
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NC STRIDE: An Action Plan for Teacher Recruitment in North Carolina (2021)

This document shares the recommendations, strategies, and actions suggested by the NC STRIDE Teacher Recruitment Working Group in 2020, and highlights areas of alignment with…
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NC First in Teaching (FIT) Roadmap (2018)

In 2018, current and former NC teachers formed the FIT Leaders. The culmination of their work together was the NC First in Teaching Roadmap, which…
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Full List of 2018 FIT Leaders

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Excellence: North Carolina’s Education Vision (2015)

Excellence: North Carolina’s Education Vision was created in 2015 with input from education stakeholders and experts from across the state and the nation to develop…
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