We recently hosted our School Kick-Off Conference in Charlotte to bring together the entire 2024 North Carolina corps from our Charlotte-Piedmont Triad and Eastern North Carolina regions. We kicked this two-day event off with a celebration dinner, where we heard powerful perspectives from Jarian Kerekes (Head of Social Impact & President, Equitable Foundation) and Leah Carper (2022 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of the Year). At this dinner, our first-year Teach For America corps members and Teach For America North Carolina staff members celebrated the end of our Pre-Service experience. On the second day of this two-day event, corps members participated in professional development sessions led by Teach For America North Carolina staff members and network affiliates. Corps members engaged in an amazing alumni panel moderated by Teach For America alumna Lisa Guckian (NYC '96). Lisa now serves with TFA's partner LEE. Our panel consisted of alumni from all over the state of North Carolina including: Johnathan Moore (CPT '16), Colleen Elisabeth Grosse (CPT '13), Cordelia Breiner (ENC '16), and Melissa Altemose (ENC '11). We are incredibly grateful to Jarian Kerekes and the entire team at Equitable for hosting us at their offices in Charlotte for this jam-packed day! We would like to say thank you to all of our amazing speakers, to our network members and friends, and to our Teach For America North Carolina staff members who came together to put on this incredible experience. As many of our educators gear up to head back into classrooms next week, we would like to send our appreciation to them as they are working tirelessly to serve students across the state of North Carolina in pursuit of "One Day." #TeachForAmerica #NCED #OneDayNC
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