The University of North Carolina Office of the President received a $1,517,810 catalyst grant from the US Department of Education, funded under the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grants program (PT3) in 2000. This three year grant, entitled "NC Catalyst", is aimed at strengthening North Carolina's administrative, human resource, and technical infrastructure for preservice teacher technology preparation. An overview of the NC Catalyst Grant can be downloaded in PDF format from the reports section of the 21st Century Schools' web site.
NC Catalyst represents a statewide partnership, including The University of North Carolina's fifteen teacher education programs (ASU, ECU, ECSU, FSU, NCA&T, NCCU, NCSU, UNCA, UNCC, UNC-CH, UNCG, UNCP, UNCW, WCU, WSSU), The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, The North Carolina Community College System, Chowan College, North Carolina Wesleyan College, The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, The Center for School Leadership Development, and SAS inSchool. NC Catalyst is helping university faculty and cooperating teachers develop the knowledge and skills they need to integrate technology into their teacher education programs and field experiences.
NC Catalyst Goals:
- Moving from policy to practice
- Providing professional development in instructional technology for university faculty and cooperating teachers to integrate technology in teaching and learning
- Developing a teacher education portal
- Disseminating project results
