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March 6, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

RALEIGH (March 6, 2025) – Apparently a math teacher knows how to play the odds. Erin Walsh – who has taught for more than 30 years in Onslow County Schools – won our drawing among teachers who submitted Teachers Talk videos for two tickets to the UNC-Duke basketball game on Saturday. In her video, Walsh… READ MORE

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Teachers Talk: Erin Walsh

February 5, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

JACKSONVILLE (February 5, 2025) – Our latest installment of Teachers Talk features Erin Walsh, a math teacher at Onslow Early College High School. Walsh explains how she retired from teaching after 29 years and returned as a part-time teacher to make more money. (She is a math teacher, after all!) “Sadly, our pay stops increasing… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, teachers, TeachersTalk

Teachers Talk: ‘Unsustainable to do what I’m built to do’

April 10, 2024 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of Teachers Talk, Scanlon – a high-school math teacher in Wake County in her 12th year of teaching – talks about the frustrations that creates… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2024, PreK - 12 Education, teachers, TeachersTalk

Teachers Talk: ‘We deserve a livable wage’

April 4, 2024 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. Griffin STEM Magnet Middle School and NCCAT Empower NC Beginning Teacher of the Year notes how North Carolina ranked 34th in average teacher pay… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2024, K-12 Teacher Pay, PreK - 12 Education, teachers, TeachersTalk

‘A teacher pay mess in North Carolina’

March 6, 2024 by Higher Ed Works 8 Comments

KERNERSVILLE (March 6, 2024) – Stephanie Wallace is one masterful teacher. Wallace, who teaches English and Teacher Cadets at East Forsyth High School, has an amazing 180 former students who are teaching in classrooms across North Carolina, and several in other states. “Truly a work of the heart,” she calls it. A former NC Teaching… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2024, PreK - 12 Education, teachers, TeachersTalk

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