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Advanced Teaching Roles in North Carolina: Meaningful Career Opportunities for Teaching Professionals (2022)

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This brief examines the state’s Advanced Teaching Roles™(ATR) program, explains what it is and the history of the initiative, summarizes research on its impact, shares best practices for school districts, and provides recommendations for scaling statewide.
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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…
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TeachReadyNC: A Bold New Teacher Apprenticeship Initiative

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…
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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…
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