Wake Education Partnership

“Review is performed by the board of directors chair using comparable non-profit executive salaries in the area and is shared with the executive committee for any decisions as to base salary and bonuses. The president reviews staff salaries also considering market rate for similar positions.”

“The organization's public documents are available upon request.”

“A draft copy is sent to the Finance Chair and the Finance Committee for review before the final copy is submitted. The board members receive an electronic copy before submission.”

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“Each board member reviews the policy annually and signs a statement disclosing if conflicts exist. Members understand they can recuse themselves from any vote where a conflict exists.”

“Chamber relations - staff works with multiple wake county chambers of commerce to provide timely and relevant education content to their members. In october 2014, wakeed president steve parrott and wcpss superintendent jim merrill launched the wake education advisory council comprised of leaders from the 12 wake county chambers of commerce along with wakeed leadership. The council meets quarterly to discuss "hot" topics in public education and to explore opportunities for chambers to work with wakeed and wcpss. Excellence in action - excellence in action uses evidence-based criteria to identify best educational practices in wake county public schools. Once best practices were confirmed, wakeed scheduled school site visits for small groups of business leaders and elected officials to these selected schools to engage with school adminstrators, teachers and students to better understand "what's working in the classroom(s)." the benefit generates resource and community support to replicate these practices throughout wake county public schools. Morrisville elementary school was selected where science specialist marcia ferreira has used two of wakeed's teacher innovation grants to support science instruction for all k-5th grade students. The first grant enabled her to equip a science lab for all students and the second helped her take science instruction beyond the classroom by supporting a butterfly garden for the entire school. Academically, morrisville elementary has shown increases in 5th grade science test scores and teachers are integrating science instruction and innovation across all grade levels. World cafe - together, wakeed and wcpss plan and execute an annual world cafe event that puts teachers and principals of wcpss stem and global network schools at the table with wake county business leaders. At this annual event, schools use focused networking time to brainstorm potential projects for classroom and school-wide engagement in stem and global studies. They discuss and explore potential school/business partnerships where business volunteers provide "time and talent" to supplement classroom instruction. 60 businesses and schools paired at biogen on january 6, 2015 to engage in discussion that led to engineering days, coding clubs, business field trips, professional speakers for classrooms, landscaping, mentoring, etc. Education forum - the annual education forum was conducted in partnership with the greater raleigh chamber of commerce. The morning event in may 2015 featured an important public education topic (teacher recruitment and retention) and gathered business leaders, elected officials, and educators to explore non-salary options for retaining our most effective educators. Barnett berry, the ceo for the center for teaching quality, presented an interactive keynote regarding these efforts and how other districts nationally and internationally are supporting the teacher experience. Stars of education - stars of education, presented by pnc, is the signature event for wakeed partnership. Each year we gather business, education and community leaders to celebrate public education and honor those who form the backbone of the largest school district in north carolina-wake county public school system (wcpss). Stars for the event include the winners of the prestigious vernon malone friend of education award and new inductees into the wcpss hall of fame. In addition, wakeed honors the recipients of teacher innovation grants. As our major fundraiser, stars of education forms the foundation for what we are able to accomplish each year in support of our overall mission and goals. Informing the community - an important role of wakeed is to inform the public, business leaders and elected officials about what works in schools and classrooms to promote academic growth. We also provide clear, independent commentary and review of education policy issues. In context and wakeedge publications are used as primary communications channels”