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Board reviews required updates to beginning teacher support plan and approves CCIP submission request
Summary
Piedmont Community Charter staff reviewed changes required by North Carolina State Board of Education policy TCPD-016 to the Beginning Teacher Support plan (surveys, three-year induction, mentor-selection criteria) and requested board approval to submit the family engagement policy as part of the school's CCIP application for federal funds.
Jennifer Wyatt presented the family engagement policy and asked the board to approve submission of the Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan (CCIP) application, which covers federal programs such as Title I. She said the policy is reviewed annually with parents (meetings held on April 21 and May 5) and that the document remains substantially the same as last year.
"It's the same as last year," Wyatt said, describing parent review and outreach for the family engagement plan and requesting permission to submit the CCIP for federal grants.
Separately, a presenter reviewed updates required by the North Carolina State Board of Education’s policy TCPD-016 to the local Beginning Teacher Support (BTS) plan. The presenter said the state policy requires documented processes for identifying and verifying beginning teachers (including completion of a recent-graduate survey by beginning teachers and an employer survey by principals), a three-year induction requirement for teachers with fewer than three years of experience regardless of licensure pathway, mandated mentor-assignment requirements (priority for "distinguished" or "accomplished" mentors), restrictions on teachers without recent evaluation data serving as mentors, and required training for evaluators and peer observers at the start of the school year.
The presenter told the board the local BTS plan (last updated April 2021) already included some of the necessary changes and that edits were made in coordination with the regional education facilitator; the changes were highlighted in the materials provided to the board. The transcript records the presenter reviewing specific procedural changes (mentor selection, recordkeeping, observation timelines) and asking if anyone had questions; no formal vote on the BTS plan is recorded in the provided segments.
Next steps: staff will follow the local board-approval process required before submission of the updated BTS plan to the regional education facilitator for state approval; the CCIP submission request was presented to the board for approval.
