North Carolina New Schools: Resources | Overview

Vision 2015

North Carolina New Schools is pleased to announce its Vision 2015 plan, the result of a year-long strategic planning process by the Board of Directors, Board of Advisors, staff,  and more than 150 leaders in business, government and education to sustain the organization's role as a trusted partner in the complex and challenging work of school change. Vision 2015 builds upon earlier plans in 2006 and 2009 that also engaged experts, policy makers and educators across North Carolina and the country.

With Vision 2015, NC New Schools will build upon its talent development strategies, tools for school design and development, and national, state and local partnerships to address three overarching goals:

• Advance STEM education: Accelerate rigor and skills development among graduates by partnering with committed schools/districts and by providing explicit connections to higher education and to business and industry.
• Advance workforce development: Support the creation of a seamless education and training system, including linking students and teachers to workplace learning, by working with local, state and national partners.
• Advance innovation: Scale innovation that works across school districts and regions with local, state and national partners; push the boundaries of change through research and development.

25 OCT 2012

Vision 2015: Workforce Development Report

The March 28, 2012 forum was the third in a series of events as NCNSP reached out across the state and nation for input and recommendations to help it build its strategic plan, Vision 2015: Scaling Excellence in Public Education. NCNSP's mission is to accelerate systemic, sustainable innovation in secondary schools across the state, with the vision that every student in North Carolina graduates ready for college, careers and life. Following this and other input sessions, NCNSP's Board will finalize its three-year strategic plan, which will begin on July 1, 2012.

Throughout the forum, the message resonating throughout is that the future of both our country's security and our country's economy is linked to better student and teacher achievement. This message is underscored by a report that was released by the Council on Foreign Relations just one week earlier. That report, entitled U.S. Education Reform and National Security, warned that "Educational failure puts the United States' future economic prosperity, global position, and physical safety at risk."

14 MAY 2012