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Mar 1, 2016

NELA Fellow Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund PRISM Grant for School

In February, 2016, Cohort IV Fellow, Cliff Hudson, received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics grant. The grant awarded $4,000 to South Creek Middle School for Cliff’s project “No Child Left UnSTEMulated”. For more information abut the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, visit their website.

Feb 23, 2016

Part of Loving Kids is Feeding Them

The NELA Cohort V Fellows recently attended the 2016 No Kid Hungry NC conference at the Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. No Kid Hungry NC is the North Carolina program of the nonprofit Share Our Strength’s national No Kid Hungry campaign. The conference brought together a…

Feb 12, 2016

Exceptional Children’s Discussion Panel

Edgecombe County NELA Cohort IV fellows, Caroline Joyce, Julie Simpson and Billy Strother, hosted a two-part discussion panel that focused on the exceptional children’s (E.C.) program from a parent perspective with a follow-up panel of E.C. professionals. The panel discussion took place in the Edgecombe County Public School’s Board Room in Tarboro on Tuesday, February…

Jan 10, 2016

Social Justice Training 2016

The purpose of the Social Justice Specialized training is to facilitate opportunities for NELA Fellows and Graduates to develop an understanding of how to be leaders of equity. Sessions focused around vernacular, common vocabulary and understanding; economic equity, environmental equity, and criminal justice restoration – school to prison pipeline, education, and other conversations. We had…

Jan 4, 2016

Happy New Year!

NELA had a great 2015! Check out our 2015 impact in the video below. We are looking forward 2016!

Nov 15, 2015

Fellows Present at Social Studies Conference

NELA Cohort IV Fellows, Sylvia Anthony-McGeachy and Keith Parker present at the National Council for the Social Studies Confere  nc e. The conference was held in New Orleans November 13-15, 2015. Thousands of edu  cators, academics, policy makers and administrators from around the world attended. Their conference title was “Historical Re-enactments in the Elementary Social…

Nov 14, 2015

Mary Bridgers, Cohort V Fellow, ECPS Teacher Spotlight

  Cohort V’s own, Mary Bridgers, was featured as the Edgecombe County Public Schools’ Teacher Spotlight the week of November 14th. She is currently teaching at Stocks Elementary School as a first grade teacher while completing the first year of course work in the NELA program. To view the Teacher Spotlight, please visit this link:…

Sep 20, 2015

Digital Storytelling 2015

NELA Cohort V traveled to Ocracoke, NC to participate in our Digital Storytelling Specialized Training. Storytelling is a very powerful skill for school leaders. “Stories enable us to communicate our values not as abstract principles, but as lived experience, they have the power to move others”. Simultaneously, Fellows develop their technology skills as they work…

Aug 18, 2015

NELA Principal Resident and AP Part of School Transformation

Lyndsay Britt of Cohort IV is currently completing her principal residency at Ahoskie Elementary School, where Kim Scott of Cohort I is an Assistant Principal. The school went through a dramatic aesthetic transformation in preparation for the start of the school year. They hosted a reveal night on Tuesday, August 18th to showcase the school…

Jul 30, 2015

Highlight on A Summer Community Internship

The NELA 2.0 grant specifies that fellows participate in a full-time summer community internship. The internship focuses on the community that surrounds the fellow’s school. They also write grant proposals to receive funding, making a connection between the community and the school. Cohort IV Fellow, Crystal Davis, served at Franklin County Cooperative Extension in Louisburg,…