2016 NCCSA Professional Development Activities

The NCCSA is pleased to announce several opportunities for NCCSA members to receive professional development training this year.

1. The 2016 NCCSA Professional Development Seminar will take place at Faith Christian Academy in Goldsboro on Monday and Tuesday, July 25-26. We are pleased to announce that convention and summer seminar favorite, Dr. Cathy Dotson from Wilmington Christian Academy, will be our guest speaker. She has new and innovative topics that she is excited to lead. Her seminar will be titled, “Focus Wars – The Bored Awakens” and will focus on engagement and whole-brain teaching and specific areas such as: Direct Instruction, Classroom Discussion, Concept Teaching, Problem-Based Instruction, Differentiated Instruction, Kinesthetic Teaching, Cooperative Learning, and many other topics. CLICK HERE to register.
2. Currently, the 2016 NCCSA Administrators’ Seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, at Faith Christian Academy in Goldsboro. The administrators’ seminar is being led by Andy Lynch and his team at North Star Marketing. North Star Marketing’s sessions will include: Marketing From Your Mission (Part I and Part II), Online Marketing for Schools, and Marketing Team Alignment. CLICK HERE to register. 
3. The 2016 Freedom to Learn Early Childhood Conference will be held at Gospel Light Christian School on Saturday, June 18. Information regarding the speakers and topics will be available at a later date. This conference is designed for kindergarten, pre-school, daycare, and early childhood directors and employees.
4. The 2016 NCCSA Science Faculty Seminar will be held at Wake Christian Academy on Friday, November 11. More details will be available in the near future.
5. The 2016 Southeast Christian School Convention will take place at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on September 21-23. Additional details will be available in the near future. See the January 19, 2016, email for introductory information regarding general session speakers and workshops.

Official NCCSA CEU credits will be available for all of these training events and will count toward the “official NCCSA CEU” credit that is required for NCCSA Teacher Certification—2015 Edition. Any teacher certified by the NCCSA must complete at least 35% of the CEU renewal work at NCCSA professional development events such as these. Along these lines, the NCCSA has nearly finalized the structure of how we will communicate non-NCCSA professional development activities that have been endorsed/approved and tagged as Category A CEUs. We will communicate this information to schools that have certified faculty and staff at another time.

Please let your faculty/staff know about these opportunities for professional development. We will continue working on these opportunities and let you know when additional information is available.

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