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EHHS teacher selected for business partnership

An East Henderson High School business teacher has been selected to participate in the statewide North Carolina Business Committee for Education’s Teachers@Work program this summer, at Biltmore Company.

 

Alice Prince will spend a week on-site with Biltmore Company. She is among 51 middle and high school teachers from throughout the state who will be participating in the 2016 NCBCE Teachers@Work program. Each of the state’s eight education regions will be represented by at least two teachers in this year’s initiative.

A joint initiative between NCBCE and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), the Teachers@Work partnership links education and the business community in order to help teachers create relevance between their classroom curriculum and the skill sets needed by local businesses.

As part of the program, participating teachers spend a week monitoring a local company in their community. Teachers will be paired with employees of the company and will be exposed to different aspects of the business. At the end of the on-site program, the teacher will create a lesson plan that showcases both hard and soft skills needed by future employees that are specific to the partnering business.