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Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR)™

Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR)™ is the nation’s only school-level, state-supported strategic staffing initiative, empowering North Carolina schools to design and adopt new organizational structures that provide meaningful advancement opportunities and higher pay for highly effective educators, create systems of embedded professional support for developing teachers, distribute leadership across the schools building, and increase students’ access to effective educators and high quality instruction.
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Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR)™

Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR)™ is the nation’s only school-level, state-supported strategic staffing initiative, empowering North Carolina schools to design and adopt new organizational structures that…

Educator Innovation

Teacher Pay in North Carolina

Teachers are the most significant in-school factor for student success, which means the most important thing we can do to improve our education system is…

Educator Innovation

Principal Pay in North Carolina

Thanks to BEST NC’s research and recommendations, North Carolina is currently the only state in the nation that pays its school leaders for more than…

Educator Innovation

TeachReadyNC: Teacher Apprenticeship in North Carolina

BEST NC’s research indicates that a state-supported, paid teacher apprenticeship program like TeachReadyNC will help North Carolina’s largest and fastest-growing teacher candidate pool find the…

Educator Innovation

TeachNC

TeachNC is a state-supported one-stop-shop for anyone interested in becoming a teacher in North Carolina, with access to financial aid, information on licensure, 1-on-1 coaching,…

Data, Report

Teacher Pay in North Carolina: A Smart Investment in Student Achievement (2025 Edition)

The 2025 Edition of Teacher Pay in North Carolina: A Smart Investment in Student Achievement examines how existing teacher pay structures fail to address decades-long…