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Welcome North Carolina Lesson Plans
===This is a site created for teachers by teachers in the state of North Carolina. We are all using the North Carolina Standard Course of Study from Murphy to Manteo and everywhere in between. There are lots of great ideas and lesson plans out there. We want this site to become the premier area where teachers share their great ideas and lesson plans with other teachers in the state.===

Topic:
===﻿We decided on creating this site after discussing part of the the Barth novel. After reading about the loss of craft knowledge we were discussing ways to keep the best ideas from retiring with our more experienced colleafues. The answer created a space where we can share our ideas and have blogs for teachers to share their thoughts and ideas.===

Plan:
===﻿We decided to use a wiki due to the ease of posting information. When setting the site up we created it so that anyone could edit the pages within the site. This allows for teachers all over the state to access, read, and post new information to the site at their convenience. When deciding on pages we decided to group by school levels, elementary, middle, high school, and subjects. This limited the number of pages you would have to deal with. Each subject for each grade would have made the navigation portion of the page unruly and difficult to deal with.===

Timeline:
===﻿The project is ongoing. We have already started posting lesson plans on the site and since the four of us teach in all three school levels in three different counties we have all started showing other teachers the sites at our schools. As to the question of when will the project end, hopefully it will not. With so many good ideas out there and so many teachers, our desire is that this wiki will become a site that teachers across the state of North Carolina can use for years to come.===

Impact:
===﻿We hope that this will give teachers new ideas to implement in their classrooms. That in turn will have the direct effect of improving student learning throughout the state. It creates opportunities for teachers to use pre-made lesson plans and spark student interest simultaneously.===

Reflection:
===﻿We hope that our project is the first step in getting our fellow teachers to open up and share the good things that they are doing. There are plenty of great teachers with great ideas but many times our best ideas never leave our classrooms as we don't want to be seen as bragging or showing off. By offering a forum to share our ideas, we are offering a platform for the great ideas that will make not only our school better but schools across the state better. We believe Barth would say this website makes a good attempt to influence each of our counties and is a step in the future that we want to create!===