2025 North Carolina Education Innovation Lab Digital Program

2025/02/10 09:00:00

The 2025 North Carolina Education Innovation Lab represents a landmark moment in the future of our state’s education landscape. For a decade, the Lab has fostered an environment where stakeholders, policymakers, and business leaders have collaborated to create a shared vision of Educator Innovation. From these conversations, a network of research, policies, and programs has emerged, leading to real, meaningful, and lasting change for North Carolina’s educators, and more importantly, our students. 

Education transformation takes a focused, strategic, and persistent effort in order to achieve world-class results. That’s why the goal of the 2025 North Carolina Education Innovation Lab is to reflect on a decade of Educator Innovation progress, then to identify, promote, and support the next steps toward making our state First in Education over the next ten years – and you’re invited to help! 

What is the Educator Innovation Plan?

Since 2015, BEST NC has engaged alongside key education stakeholders to design and implement new policies, programs, and initiatives that will address the systemic barriers facing North Carolina’s education system, specifically the educator pipeline. These strategic and actionable efforts to support systemic improvements is called the Educator Innovation Plan.

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You can’t have great schools without great school leaders. Innovation and success start with great leaders who recruit and empower great teams and have the flexibility to manage their resources. 

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To ensure equitable access to great educators, recruiting, preparing, and supporting high-quality candidates is imperative, as is ensuring that every student has access to a highly-effective educator.

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Educators, like other highly skilled professionals, thrive when they are given a professional work environment with embedded supports, great leadership, and opportunities to grow.

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