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LEARN NC gives you what you need for K–12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it. Here’s how to get started.
Classroom
Lesson plans? Sure, we've got 'em — but also learning materials from slideshows to digital textbooks, all correlated to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Professional
Learn on your own from articles and multimedia best practices, or take an instructor-led CEU course — all correlated to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards.
Projects and special collections
- North Carolina History
A “digital textbook” of primary sources, background readings, and multimedia.- World Cultures
Photographs and audio with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.- Critical Languages
Digital textbooks for Mandarin Chinese and Arabic.- Environmental Science
Virtual field trips, lesson plans, and classroom content for a variety of grade levels.- Field Trips
Find educational opportunities in your county or region.
- New Teacher Support
Resources and guides to LEARN NC for beginning teachers and their mentors.- COLT: Carolina On-Line Teacher
A certification program for online instructors.- Differentiated Instruction
Teaching all students in the 21st-century classroom.- Technology Integration
Best practices for making innovative and meaningful use of classroom technology.- Education Reference
Background articles and research summaries on key topics in education, from A to Z.
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- Getting the most from your search
- Tips for searching LEARN NC’s new website, and how to use our advanced search form.
- Flyers, brochures, and workshop tools
- Whether you’re adding to your own toolbox or arranging staff development, these tools will get you started.
- Teaching an online course
- What you’ll need to teach one of LEARN NC’s online professional development courses.
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News & updates
- Summer online professional development courses open for enrollment
- What are your plans for the summer? Take one or more of our online professional development courses for continuing education credit!
- “Turkey at the Crossroads” seminar
- The UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations is offering a one-day seminar on Turkey, its past, present, and future.
- News from the Civic Education Consortium
- The April CEC newsletter includes lesson plans about the American Civil War for middle and high school students, as well as professional development opportunities for educators.
- Update from our director
- The latest news from LEARN NC. We're working hard to serve you!
- Positions open at LEARN NC!
- LEARN NC is looking for outstanding individuals to work with our creative team!
The Well
- Toward Successful Integration: School Personnel’s Perspectives on Refugee Youth
- Researcher bio Amy Lerner is a second year Ph.D. student in the Early Childhood, Special Education, and Literacy program at UNC, Chapel Hill. Ms. Lerner is collaborating with Dr. Patricia Garrett-Peters, a scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute. Ms. Lerner has received funding through a Community Engagement Fellowship by the Carolina Center for Public [...]
- We can speak for ourselves: Parent involvement and ideologies of Black mothers in an urban community
- Billye Rhodes, a Ph.D. candidate in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Education, recently sat down with us to share her dissertation work, We can speak for ourselves: Parent involvement and ideologies of Black mothers in an urban community
- Reading acts: An Inquiry into reading and teaching
- Brandon Sams, a Ph.D. candidate in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Education, recently sat down with us to share his dissertation work, Reading acts: An Inquiry into reading and teaching.
- From the Peabody Pulse, 4/02/2012
- UNC -- School of Education faculty members Catherine Marshall and Steve Knotek receive awards, students teach in China, and more in this edition of the Peabody Pulse.
- Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later
- Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefiting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study.
