Wake Education Partnership exists because our community and its school leaders understand that quality matters. To help ensure that quality, the Partnership is focused on three primary areas of work. Those areas are:
- Working With Leaders: The Partnership will engage business leaders, elected officials, educators and other non-profit organizations to support and improve our public schools. These “change agents” must be willing to work collaboratively to deliver a world-class education for all students in Wake County.
- Pushing For Higher Standards: The Partnership will advocate for academic standards that are consistent with the skills required by the global business community. It will perform comprehensive research to identify the “best practices” that allow our students to achieve success in support of these standards.
- Delivering Resources: The Partnership will work with individuals and organizations that deliver resources to support the attributes of a world-class school system. We will encourage our partners to work in a way that is complementary rather than competitive. When gaps in resources are identified by the Partnership, we will work with those who are best positioned to develop an effective solution.
Our focus on these three areas of work can be seen in the following ways:
- Advocacy and research for systemic advancement toward world-class schools.
- Teacher Leadership Grants that provide more teachers access to innovative collaboration on best practices for improved student achievement.
- In Context publications that provide up-to-date and balanced summaries of current public education topics affecting our community.
- School visits, as part of our Excellence in Action program, that provide business leaders and policy makers an opportunity to see best practices at work in Wake County classrooms.
- Regular meetings of our Public Education Advisory Council where previous recipients of the Principal, Assistant Principal and Teacher of the Year awards provide insight and real-time perspective on the Partnership's work.
- Our work for the strongest and most effective public school system to enhance the economic development and success of the Wake County community.
We encourage you to explore the various pages of this web site to learn more about the public schools of Wake County and this organization. Please don't hesitate to contact any staff member with questions.