Teacher Recruitment & Retention

The following quote from a recent article on education sums up what schools today are up against:

"[Our schools are expected to] make every child 'proficient' in English and math; educate the blind, the mentally handicapped and the emotionally disturbed to the same levels as all others; teach the evils of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs and premarital sex; prepare all for college; teach immigrants in their native languages; teach driver's ed; feed lunch to poor children; entertain the community with Friday-night football and midwinter basketball; sponsor dances and fairs for the kids; and serve as the prime (and often the only) social-welfare agency for both children and parents."

Peter Schrag, Schoolhouse Crock, Harper's Magazine

No one feels the enormous pressure that schools operate under today more than our teachers. We at Champions of Education believe they should be honored and supported for the heroic work they do in teaching and preparing our children for the future. That's why we have partnered with many of our area businesses to provide such support in the form of incentives and discounts that provide a supplement to teacher salaries. 

Champions of Education Teaching Scholarship
This program provides assistance to teaching students for the last two years of their degree. In exchange, the teaching students commit to teaching in Catawba County for two years upon completion of their degree. The scholarship is one of the best ways, we feel, to develop a group of “homegrown” teachers who are more likely to stay in their home community of Catawba County for the length of their careers.

New Teacher Socials
This is a series of events that provide a way for teachers who come here from out of state to get to know their fellow teachers and their newly adopted home of Catawba County.