WakeEd Partnership

At our Stars of Education Gala #WakeEdStars last week, our Wake County Public School System Hall of Fame inductee for Community Service was Barb Walsh, the founder and Executive Director of the Fentanyl Victims Network of North Carolina. FentVic is a grassroots action-oriented nonprofit she founded on the first anniversary of her daughter's tragic death from fentanyl exposure through a water bottle. Watch Barb's story here. https://lnkd.in/ejxdcYiz

It has just been one week since we celebrated our Stars of Education together! We've been going through videos and photos and are so grateful for our educators and for this community that supports our public schools. Watch for more posts about the honorees over the next week. #WakeEdStars

Our Vernon Malone Friend of Education Award recipient at this year's Stars of Education was Rep. Rosa Gill. Take a look at the wonderful tribute video from the event. https://lnkd.in/esnhf2Gn #WakeEdStars

If you were not at our Stars of Education Gala last night, you missed an incredible celebration of our public schools, teachers and students. We'll have much more to share including more photos and videos over the next few days. For those who attended and supported WakeEd Partnership this week and every week, thank you! #WakeEdStars

Just one more day until our 11th Annual Stars of Education Gala! We can't wait to celebrate with all our public schools champions and educators tomorrow night at the Raleigh Convention Center #WakeEdStars. You can read more about who we're honoring this year here including our Vernon Malone Friend of Education Award recipient Rep. Rosa Gill: https://lnkd.in/gJW4qf_k

We will honor Wake County’s Stars of Education next Wednesday, October 30th, at our annual gala event at the Raleigh Convention Center. A reception kicks off the event at 5:00 PM and the awards part of the program begins at 6:45 PM. #WakeEdStars https://ow.ly/yTBv50TRER0

#Tools4Schools isn't just jam packed with school supplies today, we're also packed with some amazing volunteers helping us get ready to open the doors for our Wake County Public School System teachers at 4 PM.

Our 11th Annual Stars of Education Gala is just 9 days away!! This annual event to honor and celebrate our public schools and public education heroes would not be possible without our wonderful sponsors! Thank you all! More event info can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gJW4qf_k #WakeEdStars

Our teams at WakeEd Partnership and Helping Education have had a busy few weeks launching HELPS 1:1 tutoring at eight of our returning Wake County Public School System elementary schools: Bugg, Lincoln Heights, Wendell, Lynn Road, Baileywick, Wakefield, Green, and Millbrook. We are so thankful for our amazing volunteers who consistently heed the call to support early literacy in schools. ❤️ Thank you to the fabulous HELPS coaches and project managers for building relationships and empowering our volunteers to deliver effective literacy instruction: Anam Lodhi Heather Kasdan Katie Thompson Finley Baldwin Alexandra Arcaya 💪🏽 Over the following weeks, we will continue to expand by placing volunteers into over 20 new schools to provide one-on-one high-dosage tutoring to 2nd - 5th grade students using the HELPS curriculum. We are so excited … and we need your help! 👈 We’re almost halfway to our goal of 150 new tutors. You can help by sharing this opportunity with your network or even signing up to tutor yourself! All it takes is about one hour a week. To learn more, see a list of schools, and sign up for training, visit https://lnkd.in/eggeq2CK 📚

This week we hosted a series of 2024 School Board Candidate Forums together with the Wake County PTA Council and the Greater Raleigh Chamber. Candidates for all five school board races on the ballot participated and they feature questions submitted by Wake County parents. Take a look and get to know the candidates better and their positions on key issues. You can also play these on your commute or while multitasking- they're just as easy to listen to as watch! You can view them all on YouTube at https://lnkd.in/eDpk3DU3