Goals
The goals of the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence include the following:
- to focus with school partners on major issues facing schools by conducting partnership-driven research that shares successful educational practices and new strategies that carry an impact far beyond a single, local school.
- to assist in improving P-12 student achievement and to provide opportunities for University students to have authentic learning experiences through learning in real and virtual school settings.
- to use digital communication technologies to enable educators and students to connect with peers and scholars across geographically disparate locations.
- to create clinically based pre-service and in-service programs that reflect genuine collaboration between P-12 school and University faculty members.
- to provide innovative professional development opportunities for in-service P-12 educators, student service support personnel and University faculty.
- to prepare educators and the students with whom they work to address equity and social justice issues in our increasingly multicultural society.
- to broaden learning experiences for students and educators through partnering with other units across the UNC-Chapel Hill, such as the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Social Work.
- to develop supportive induction and retention programs for teachers and other professional educators at different stages of their careers.
- to support and enhance science and mathematics content and methods instruction at the P-16 and pre-service/in-service levels through a technologically enriched laboratory/classroom, funded by NASA, that will provide opportunities for teachers, graduate students and professors to observe and research classroom teaching and learning.