
Wake Promise
The Wake Promise is made up of leaders and community partners who “grow their own” by creating and strengthening educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged students. Together they work to ensure that youth achieve a postsecondary credential and living-wage employment to build a stronger and more prosperous Wake County.
Updates
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Pack IDEAs Faculty Spotlight: Jose A. Picart, Ph.D.
This NC State College of Education spotlight on Friday Institute Deputy Director Jose Picart, Ph.D., highlights his expertise and experience that aligns with advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the College.
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Literacy and Community Initiative Offers Book Recommendations for Teen Readers
To encourage reading among youth, the NC State College of Education's Literacy and Community Initiative has created a list of recommended reads for middle school and high school students.
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Youth Authors to Release New Books Through College of Education’s Literacy and Community Initiative
Student authors from three community-based organization partners celebrate the release of two new books.
Selected Projects
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Advancing Informal STEM LearningThe overarching goal of this program is to engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.
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Family Life Coaching Association (FLCA) CollaborationThis project is a partnership with the Family Life Coaching Association (FLCA) to promote family life coaching strategies for parent engagement in schools and student academic success.
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Leadership for Collective Action WorkshopThis Wake Promise workshop is designed to provide collective action teams, organizational leadership teams and community leaders with tools, insights and knowledge for leading, self leading others and leading systems of change using principles of collective action.
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Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI)A collaboration among NC State’s College of Education, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, and educational community-based organizations to amplify the voices of historically underserved students through literacy learning and publication of student-authored narratives.
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Wake County Educational Resources Online Search EngineA partnership with SAS and Youth Thrive to provide the Wake County community with a searchable database of educational resources.
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Youth Thrive Educational Success Action TeamThe Wake Promise is leading the action team tasked with the goal of helping 95% of students graduate high school ready for college and career.