North Carolina Education Cabinet

Vision
North Carolina will be the education leader not just in the Southeast or in the nation, but in the world with every North Carolina graduate earning a place of honor, prosperity and service in our society.

Theory of Action
Globally-Competitive North Carolina Standards

Supports, Incentives & Measurement

Community: Teachers, Parents and Students

Student Achievement

The Five Pathways for NC Education

The Five Pathways for North Carolina Education

Prosperity and Jobs for Graduates An Honorable Career for Teachers and Principals

A Joy of Reading for Every Child

Excellent Innovative Learning Options for Families Cost Effectiveness for Taxpayers

Prosperity and Jobs for Graduates

Talent for North Carolina Business
What we have:
Governors Career and College Pathways for high school graduates Strong community college and university system Early College, STEM, and other innovations in K-12 Business involvement, asking for more prepared workforce

What we need:
Seamless pathways that break down traditional barriers for student achievement. Replace walls and textbooks with digital online solutions. Dramatically increase number of Associates and Bachelors degrees Dramatically increase workforce-approved certificates and degrees Businesses directly informing the pathways and promising to interview and hire North Carolina graduates at every level

An Honorable Career for Teachers and Principals

What we have:
Pockets of excellence Governors advocacy for testing relief Teacher pay among lowest in the nation Lack of meaningful recognition or rewards for excellence

What we need:
An opportunity culture for teachers and principals Fewer and more meaningful assessments that drive and improve classroom practice Measures of effectiveness based on a variety of measures including student achievement Innovative, revenue-neutral ways to dramatically increase teacher salaries Meaningful rewards for our most effective educators Job embedded supports that value field-based outputs rather than theory-based inputs

A Joy of Reading for Every Child

What we have:
Governors Early Learning/Pre-K Budget recommendations Smart Start and other early learning legacies Excellent Public Schools Act

What we need:
Excellent early education options for all students that result in every North Carolina child reading by end of 3rd grade Meaningful and reliable measures of literacy progress Support for teachers to reach this goal

Excellent Innovative Learning Options for Families

What we have:
Innovation Act Strong community college and university system Early College, STEM, and other innovations in K-12 Growing charter movement

What we need:
A high quality innovative choice for every family Policy that supports expansion of high quality charter schools with a focus on excellence and diverse student populations A digital E-Learning agenda that can be accessed by students from early learning to adulthood Public-private partnerships that incentivize and reward innovation zones

Cost Effectiveness for Taxpayers

What we have:
Siloes, with pockets of excellence, but also considerable inefficiencies A budget process where the education entities from Early Learning to K12 to Community Colleges to UNC often have competing and overlapping interests

What we need:
Practices and policies that reward and scale the things that work, and eliminate those that do not Shared budget in the next legislative session for some or even all education initiatives Ultimately, we should move to establish a zero to 20 system in North Carolina

Work Plan and Schedule

June September 2013 Cabinet members and Volunteer Work Groups develop concrete policies and expected outcomes for each pathway October 2013 Cabinet members present and approve outcomes and policy recommendations November 2013 March 2014 Gather public input and support for policies and outcomes from a diverse crosssection of our community April 2014 Finalize goals and objectives for NC education to inform 2014 Legislative Session